Get Your 2012 Beach Badges

Its that time of year again.

Beach badges are on sale now for your favorite beaches throughout Ocean County. Although most of the beaches won’t require beach badges for access until Memorial Day Weekend 2012, you can start purchasing seasonal badges now at special pre-season rates. Also, its important to know which beaches at the Jersey Shore offer the best rates this year. Here is a list of Ocean County beach badge prices for 2012 (more…)

What’s Happening This Weekend in Ocean County

What’s fantastic about Ocean County is that there is always something fun to do. Even when it seems like summer is fading away fast, life at the Jersey Shore continues to come at you at 120 mph. This weekend starts off with a bang! Several major recording artists are performing in Ocean County (I’ll give you a hint…one of them is a Jonas brother!) There are also plenty of other great events for the whole family this weekend, including a crab race and an art festival. Here’s what’s happening this weekend in Ocean County, August 19th-21st (more…)

Summer at the Shore: LBI

When you think of Ocean County Beaches, automatically three major tourist attractions come to mind: Point Pleasant Beach, Seaside Heights and Long Beach Island. Which of those three are the best? That’s what Ocean Happening is going to find out.

This is our third and final video in our “Summer at the Shore” series 2011. We visited Beach Haven in Long Beach Island. We asked people what they liked about LBI and why they considered LBI to be the best beach in Ocean County. We previously did two other “Summer at the Shore” videos on Point Pleasant Beach (Click here to view that video) and Seaside Heights (Click here to view that video). Here is the final “Summer at the Shore” video, all about LBI (more…)

Ocean County Traffic Guide

You’re on your way to work, or to a really cool event, when all of a sudden…traffic strikes. Now you’re stuck in traffic. (Darn Ocean County Traffic!) To help you possibly avoid future traffic in Ocean County, we developed this helpful guide of the most popular and most traffic-jammed roads in our area. So if you’re looking to get past all that traffic (or maybe you just want to you learn about all of the popular routes in our area so you could explore more places), here are the ten most popular and most traffic-ridden roads in Ocean County (more…)

Official Ocean County 4th of July Guide 2011

4^th of July 2011 is finally here in Ocean County. Every Independence Day, people travel to the Jersey Shore to celebrate this patriotic holiday. Going to the beach or having a BBQ is part of what makes 4^th of July in Ocean County so great. That’s why we put together a comprehensive look at 4^th of July in Ocean County– from concerts to parades and all of the fireworks. Here is our Official Guide to 4^th of July 2011 in Ocean County:

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Welcome to OceanHappening.com!

Welcome to OceanHappening.com – Your source for EVERYTHING Ocean County. Watch our first video: