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 first opened on June 10, 1996 with 2 trains from the Philadelphia Toboggan Company. The Great White is situated 2½ miles east of Shell Thorofare.

Wildwoods Convention Center

Convention center

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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

Photo: Dough4872, Public domain.

Wildwood Crest is a borough at the southern end of the Wildwood barrier island in Cape May County, in the Southern Shore region of New Jersey. It is the quietest and most residential of the three Wildwoods municipalities — Wildwood, North Wildwood, and Wildwood Crest — and draws primarily families and visitors seeking a lower-key beach experience.

Wildwood

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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 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
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Latitude

38.97039° or 38° 58′ 13″ north

Longitude

-74.85489° or 74° 51′ 18″ west

Elevation

-10 feet (-3 metres)

Open location code

87C7X4CW+52

GeoNames ID

4504076

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Satellite Map

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Localities in the Area

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