Brant Beach is the largest section of Long Beach Township and one of LBI's favorite family rental areas. It sits on the central island just south of Ship Bottom — close enough to the Causeway for easy arrivals, far enough south for a neighborhood feel — with wide ocean beaches on one side and Bayview Park's calm bayside swimming on the other.
Brant Beach is a section of Long Beach Township — township beach badges, parking rules, and services apply here.
Brant Beach begins just south of Ship Bottom and runs down the central island — the northern anchor of Long Beach Township's big central patchwork of sections. The township's municipal offices sit here on Long Beach Boulevard, which makes Brant Beach the township's de facto hub. It's a section of Long Beach Township, not an independent borough, so LBT badges and parking rules apply.
Brant Beach's ocean beaches are wide, family-oriented, and guarded in season, with access at the numbered streets. The Long Beach Township badge applies — one badge covers every township section from Loveladies to Holgate, the broadest coverage of any badge on the island. Street parking near the beach is generally easier to find here than in Beach Haven or Ship Bottom.
Bayview Park, around 68th Street on the bay side, is Brant Beach's signature amenity and one of the best family spots on LBI: a guarded bayside swimming area with shallow, calm water for young kids, plus a playground, basketball, volleyball, pickleball, a dedicated dog park, and free summer concerts. The township also hosts summer events here — it's the kind of place a family can burn a whole non-beach afternoon.
The bike path along Long Beach Boulevard runs the length of Brant Beach and is one of the best ways to move around the central island — bike to Ship Bottom's shops and food in minutes, or cruise south through the township sections. The free LBI Shuttle also serves the boulevard in season.
Daddy O's Restaurant & Hotel anchors Brant Beach dining with a modern bar-restaurant scene. Jersey Girl Grill covers casual American mid-island, and Blue Water Cafe is a short hop south in Haven Beach. For a bigger restaurant crawl, Ship Bottom's food strip is minutes north and Beach Haven's restaurant row is a ten-minute drive south.
No — Brant Beach is the largest section of Long Beach Township, on the central island just south of Ship Bottom. Long Beach Township badges, parking rules, and services apply, and the township municipal offices are located in Brant Beach.
A Long Beach Township badge. It covers Brant Beach and every other township section — Loveladies, North Beach, the central sections, and Holgate — which makes it the broadest-coverage badge on LBI.
Yes — Bayview Park, around 68th Street on the bay side, has a guarded bayside swimming area with shallow, calm water, plus a playground, courts, a dog park, and free summer concerts.
Families with young kids (calm bay swimming plus ocean beaches), renters who want a central location with easy parking, and anyone who plans to bike the island.
