Asbury Park, New Jersey

Follow the Boardwalk Map through Asbury Park

Screecher Jones — ghost pirate of the Jersey Shore — leads ye through the rise, fall, and legendary comeback of New Jersey's most electrifying shore town. Riots, rock 'n' roll, and a century of stories the postcards never showed.

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X Marks the Boardwalk

Asbury Park is a town ye walk — from the legendary Stone Pony to the Convention Hall, from the ruins of the Casino to the streets where Springsteen first played to nobody. One square mile of American music history, seaside mythology, and a comeback nobody saw coming.

Pick Your Starting Point

Start at the Stone Pony for the rock 'n' roll angle, or the boardwalk north end for the full historic sweep. Screecher sets the scene either way.

Follow the Boardwalk

GPS unlocks stops as ye walk the legendary mile. A century of music, riots, ruin, and resurrection — all within earshot of the waves.

Earn Your Plunder

Complete the tour, claim your digital passport, and post proof that ye walked the comeback coast.

The Comeback Coast

One Boardwalk, A Hundred Stories

Stone Pony — It opened in 1974. Bruce Springsteen was already a regular. The stage that launched a legend is still standing.

Convention Hall — Built 1930. Springsteen played here before he was famous and after he was iconic. The ocean literally comes under the building.

The Palace Amusements — The Tillie face watched over Asbury Park for 80 years. The building was demolished in 2004, but Tillie lives on — painted on walls across the city.

Asbury Park Boardwalk — It burned, flooded, and crumbled. Then in the 2000s, something remarkable happened: it came back. Screecher watched the whole thing.

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"I've haunted this boardwalk since before the music started, matey. I watched the riots of 1970. I watched the whole town go dark for thirty years. And then — SQUAWK — I watched it come back. Some towns know how to die. Asbury Park knows how to come back from the dead. That's my kind of town."

— Captain Screecher Jones, GuidedPlunder

GPS Auto-AdvanceStops unlock as ye walk

Full Audio NarrationScreecher Jones, every stop

Walking TourStone Pony to the Boardwalk and beyond

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