Shell Thorofare
Shell Thorofare is a channel in Cape May County, Jersey Shore, New Jersey. Shell Thorofare is situated nearby to the village Wildwood Gables, as well as near the neighborhood Diamond Beach.Places of Interest
Highlights include The Great White and Wildwoods Convention Center.
The Great White
Photo: Dplcrnj, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Great White is a sit-down wooden/steel roller coaster made and built by Custom Coasters International. It has been operating since June 10, 1996 and has 2 trains from the Philadelphia Toboggan Company with 6 cars per train. The Great White is situated 2½ miles east of Shell Thorofare.
Wildwoods Convention Center
Convention center
Photo: Sk5893, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Wildwoods Convention Center is a convention center and indoor arena in Wildwood, New Jersey. Built in 2001 to replace an older Convention Hall, the center has exhibition space of 260,000 sq ft. Wildwoods Convention Center is situated 2 miles east of Shell Thorofare.
Boardwalk Chapel
Church
Boardwalk Chapel is a summertime Christian Gospel outreach on the two-mile boardwalk on the barrier island of The Wildwoods, New Jersey which holds 77 consecutive evening services during June, July, and August, open to boardwalkers. Boardwalk Chapel is situated 2 miles northeast of Shell Thorofare.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wildwood Crest and Wildwood.
Wildwood Crest
Village
Photo: Dough4872, Public domain.
Wildwood Crest is a borough in Cape May County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The borough, and all of Cape May County, is part of the Ocean City metropolitan statistical area, and is part of the Philadelphia-Wilmington-Camden, PA-NJ-DE-MD combined statistical area, also known as the Delaware Valley or Philadelphia metropolitan area.
Wildwood
Wildwood is on the Southern Shore of New Jersey. It is primarily a resort town whose population swells in the summer months with vacationers coming mainly from New Jersey, New York, Philadelphia, and Quebec.
Schellenger Landing
Hamlet
Lower Township is a township in Cape May County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The township, and all of Cape May County, is part of the Ocean City metropolitan statistical area, and is part of the Philadelphia-Wilmington-Camden, PA-NJ-DE-MD combined statistical area, also known as the Delaware Valley or Philadelphia metropolitan area. Schellenger Landing is situated 3 miles southwest of Shell Thorofare.
Shell Thorofare
- Type: Channel
- Category: body of water
- Location: Cape May County, Jersey Shore, New Jersey, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.97039° or 38° 58′ 13″ northLongitude
-74.85489° or 74° 51′ 18″ westElevation
-10 feet (-3 metres)Open location code
87C7X4CW+52GeoNames ID
4504076
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