The 2025 Beach Commandments: A Shore Thing You Need to Read

Here we are at the height of the summer 2025 beach season. Hot weather is in the forecast, and people are flocking to beaches in New Jersey's Shore towns.

It is time to talk about the dos and don'ts of beach behavior.

The 2025 edition of New Jersey's beach Commandments.

What Are New Jersey's Beach Commandments?

We asked you to tell us about the beach behaviors that are acceptable and mostly unacceptable, on the beaches of New Jersey this summer.

Boy, did you tell us! We received hundreds of responses to our Facebook post asking, What are 'New Jersey's Beach Commandments?'

Honestly, though, most of your commandments dealt with just about a dozen topics people kept coming back to over and over. These hot-button topics or behaviors seem to be the things that people do while at the beach that annoy the heck out of the rest of us.

It kind of makes you wonder why these things continue to happen so often at the beach when they consistently get on our nerves so much.

Seagulls Top the List

Perhaps we just need a reference source where people can turn that explains to them clearly and concisely that, for example, they shouldn't be feeding the seagulls at the beach?

I mention feeding the seagulls because that was the commandment that we saw the most in your Facebook comments.

Funny that something that bothers so many people still happens so frequently. But there were some other complaints and heated or funny observations that just kept popping up.

Beach Cabanas Are a Big Topic

Over the last few summers, the emergence of the enormous beach cabanas has become one of the most divisive topics at the beach.

The big problem is people who feel entitled to set up these view-blocking inflatable houses in front of everyone else's view. A little common courtesy would be appreciated.

Yes, what we need is a reference source to explain why this bad behavior at the beach is unacceptable. How about a set of commandments?

New Jersey's Beach Commandments! There you have it. We put together this set of commandments for you to refer to before doing anything you think could bother your neighbors at the beach. Did we miss anything?

Take a look at the beach commandments...