I'll be honest with this, the cost to get into Island Beach versus the cost of getting your family day passes to the Seaside Heights beach is incredibly cheap.
I'd like to think it's the kind of place where you'll be able to stock up on lunch meat, subs, beverages, and snacks before you head over the bridge and the prices for that stuff surge.
You can usually see the Muller's ice cream stand at any Downtown Toms River Event, as well as other events throughout Ocean County serving ice cream up not just to customers, but also customers' pets!
Not only is the name just really fun to say but my mother-in-law got me a monthly subscription to their ground coffee and it's a great way to mix it up from my usual Folger's.
You can live life like it's the 1800s when you walk through this living history town that recreates mills, bakeries, boarding houses, a smith, and a forge and you can even visit a haunted house.