Red light therapy for Belmar, NJ
From Belmar it is 21 minutes inland to our Howell studio and its single NovoTHOR bed. Off-season the drive is easy; a summer Saturday is not.
- Off-peak drive
- 21 min
- Rush hour
- 32 min
- The way there
- Route 33 east, Route 35 south, Route 71 south
Route 35 or Route 71 out of town and then Route 33 west, twenty-one minutes that hold up all winter and stretch on summer weekends when Ocean Avenue and the bridge over the Shark River are both full.
A mile and a bit of boardwalk, a marina full of charter and party boats on the Shark River, and a summer population several times the winter one — Belmar changes character more completely between June and September than almost anywhere else on this list. From October the drive west to Howell is twenty-one straightforward minutes. In July, on a weekend afternoon, getting off Ocean Avenue and across to Route 35 can eat the first ten of them before you have left town.
So the trip is worth planning rather than winging. Once you are inland it is an ordinary run through Wall to Route 9, and waiting at the end is a single NovoTHOR whole-body bed booked by the slot. Sessions last under twenty minutes: you lie in it, light covers you head to foot, nothing touches you. The cleared uses are minor muscle and joint pain, muscle spasm and local circulation — the useful part for surfers, boardwalk runners and anyone working fourteen-hour days from Memorial Day to Labor Day.
Boroughs and places next to Belmar
Lake Como
Lake Como is a borough of roughly 1,700 people wedged between Belmar and Spring Lake. It was created out of Wall Township in 1924 under the name South Belmar, and voters approved the change to Lake Como in 2004, taking the name from the lake that divides the borough from Belmar.
Questions from Belmar
- When in summer is the drive from Belmar least painful?
- Weekday mornings before nine, and anything after seven in the evening. The bad windows are Saturday and Sunday between about ten and six, when the beach crowd is arriving or leaving and Route 35 near the Shark River bridge stops moving.
- Route 33 or Route 138 — which is better?
- Both work. From the south end of town, near Lake Como, Route 138 west to Route 34 is the cleaner line. From the north end, up by the marina, Route 33 is more direct. Neither is dramatically faster than the other.
- I fish out of the Belmar Marina. Is a session any use after a day on a boat?
- That is a lot of standing, bracing and hauling in one day, and stiff shoulders and a sore lower back are the usual result. Ordinary wear of that kind is exactly what the bed is cleared for, and it is the most common reason people book after a long day outdoors.
- Do I need to plan a whole afternoon around this?
- No. Session time is under twenty minutes and you are in and out of the room in about half an hour with changing. Off-peak the round trip from Belmar is a bit over an hour.
Also serving near Belmar
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 Belmar.
21 minutes from Belmar
2350 Route 9 South, Cherry Tree Plaza, Howell, NJ 07731. Free parking at the door.