Red light therapy for Allentown, NJ
Thirty minutes east on Route 524 from Allentown borough to a single NovoTHOR whole-body bed in Howell. Appointment only, free parking at the door.
- Off-peak drive
- 30 min
- Rush hour
- 38 min
- The way there
- Route 524 west
Route 524 east the entire way, past Clarksburg and the Millstone horse farms, thirty minutes of two-lane road with one small town center on it and very little else.
Route 524 runs almost the entire width of Monmouth County, and if you live in the borough you can take it from Main Street to within a couple of miles of our door without turning off. It is thirty minutes and it is not a scenic thirty — Clarksburg, some horse fencing, the Millstone stretch, then Howell arriving all at once as Route 9 appears. The one thing in its favor is that it barely changes with the hour. Thirty off-peak, thirty-eight in the evening.
Allentown is a small borough with Upper Freehold Township wrapped around it, a mill and a mill pond at the bottom of Main Street, and a historic district you can walk end to end in fifteen minutes. Nothing about it suggests a red light therapy studio, and there is not one here. What there is, thirty minutes east, is a single NovoTHOR whole-body bed booked one slot at a time. A session runs under twenty minutes and the cleared uses are minor muscle and joint pain, muscle spasm and local blood circulation. That is what the drive buys, listed plainly, so you can weigh it against an hour of your day.
Boroughs and places next to Allentown
Cooleys Corner
Cooleys Corner is a former crossroads in Upper Freehold Township where Clarksburg Road met Imlaystown-Hightstown Road. The farmland there was flooded around 1970 to create Assunpink Lake, and the site now lies within the Assunpink Wildlife Management Area, which follows Assunpink Creek across Monmouth and Mercer counties.
Cream Ridge
Cream Ridge is a section of Upper Freehold Township with its own 08514 ZIP code. Cream Ridge Winery stands on County Route 539, the 185-acre Horse Park of New Jersey is about four miles off on Route 524, and Clayton Park holds 438 acres of county woodland nearby.
Ellisdale
Ellisdale is a hamlet on Crosswicks Creek at the edge of Upper Freehold Township, near the Burlington County line. The Ellisdale Fossil Site, in the creek valley, has produced the largest and most diverse assemblage of Late Cretaceous land animals found anywhere in eastern North America.
Hornerstown
Hornerstown is a village in Upper Freehold Township centered on Main Street, with horse farms across its western side. It is the type locality of the Hornerstown Formation, a fossil-bearing greensand at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary. The Union Transportation Trail follows the old Pemberton and Hightstown Railroad grade through the area.
New Canton
New Canton straddles the boundary between Robbinsville Township in Mercer County and Upper Freehold Township in Monmouth County, at Old York Road and New Canton-Stone Tavern Road just north of Interstate 195. Farmland and newer housing sit on the Upper Freehold side, warehouses and an Amazon fulfillment center on the Robbinsville side.
Polhemustown
Polhemustown is a hamlet in Upper Freehold Township named for the Polhemus family. Polhemustown Road forms part of the Upper Freehold Historic Farmland Scenic Byway, and Historic Walnford, an eighteenth-century mill village now run by the Monmouth County Park System, sits just down Walnford Road.
Prospertown
Prospertown sits where County Route 537 meets Hawkin Road and Emleys Hill Road, spread across Jackson and Plumsted townships in Ocean County and Upper Freehold in Monmouth County. The 1,030-acre Prospertown Lake Wildlife Management Area is here, next to Six Flags Great Adventure, in pine forest at the northern edge of the Pine Barrens.
Red Valley
Red Valley is a farming settlement in Upper Freehold Township at the intersection of County Route 526, Red Valley Road and Yellow Meetinghouse Road. The Old Yellow Meeting House, built in 1720 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, stands here beside a five-acre burying ground whose oldest dated grave is from 1723.
Sharon
Sharon is a farming settlement in Upper Freehold Township at the intersection of Herbert Road and Sharon Station Road. It was once a stop on the Pemberton and Hightstown Railroad, and it now marks the northern end of the Union Transportation Trail, which runs south along that old rail line.
Walnford
Walnford is the site of Historic Walnford, a 36-acre property on the State and National Registers of Historic Places built around gristmills that worked Crosswicks Creek from the 1730s onward. It lies inside Crosswicks Creek Park, which follows the creek across Upper Freehold Township.
Questions from Allentown
- Route 524 the whole way — is that really the best road?
- It is. There is no faster line from the western corner of Monmouth County to Howell, and 524 at least runs straight at it. The alternative involves going north to Route 33 or south to I-195 and coming back, which costs more than it saves.
- I am out toward Cream Ridge or Imlaystown. Does that change anything?
- Add about five minutes and pick up 524 or 526 east wherever is nearest. From that side of Upper Freehold you are on the same roads, just starting a little further back.
- Do you have Saturday appointments?
- Yes, and from this far west they are the ones most people take. The roads are empty and the thirty minutes actually behaves like thirty minutes.
- What should I wear to a session?
- Whatever you are comfortable being in, because you will change here anyway. Light only reaches skin that is uncovered, so most people get down to underwear. The room is private and the door locks.
Also serving near Allentown
Clients travel to the Howell studio from across this part of the shore. These are the closest areas we write about, with the straight-line distance from Allentown.
30 minutes from Allentown
2350 Route 9 South, Cherry Tree Plaza, Howell, NJ 07731. Free parking at the door.