How To Check LBI's Crowdedness On Memorial Day Weekend

LONG BEACH ISLAND, NJ — However you spend Memorial Day weekend, be safe. But if you're unsure about leaving home and exploring Long Beach Island, there are several ways to help determine its crowdedness in certain areas.

Common Areas

Attheshore.com features 10 live streams around LBI, including traffic cameras. The website also features cameras around the Jersey Shore, South Jersey, Philadelphia and even surf cams in Portugal and England (if you're curious).

NJ Beach Cams also features a few live streams around LBI.

Select one of the many live streams and determine whether there's enough space for social distancing and your comfort level.

Visiting Businesses

For better or worse, Google can analyze certain people's data to determine whether a business might get busy at a certain time. Simply Google a business, and the service can show you how busy a business is at that moment and how busy it might get later.

It's difficult to determine how reliable its future projections might be, since LBI becomes a different place during Memorial Day weekend. But it could help if there's a certain place you want to visit.

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Open or Closed

The coronavirus continues to affect the way businesses operate. Patch created a business directory for the Barnegat-Manahawkin area. Owners can tell readers whether their business is open or closed and how the coronavirus has affected operations.

Click here to add your business or read the directory. Nearly 80 businesses have contributed, including LBI establishments. The directory gets into Barnegat-Manahawkin Patch's daily newsletter for maximum visibility.

Read more: NJ Coronavirus Updates: Here's What You Need To Know

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