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Ocean City Wants To Be NJ's Favorite Beach For 11th Year In A Row

Online voting is now open for the NJ Sea Grant Consortium's annual "New Jersey's Favorite Beach" contest.

Cast your vote for your favorite beach.
Cast your vote for your favorite beach. (Veronica Flesher/Patch)

OCEAN CITY, NJ — Is Ocean City New Jersey's favorite beach? That's how people have voted for ten years. And now, the island hopes to win that title again for the 11th straight year.

Since 2008, the New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium has run its "Favorite Beaches" poll, inviting residents to vote for their favorite beach in each Jersey Shore county. Ocean City has won favorite in Cape May County and overall for ten years now.

Voting is open for the 2024 contest. You can only vote once. Cast your vote here. Winners are typically announced on the Fourth of July weekend.

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The contest started to “inspire pride in and stewardship of New Jersey’s beaches while promoting a little healthy competition between New Jersey’s favorite beach towns.”

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