Red light therapy for Colts Neck, NJ
Route 537 west and Route 9 south from Colts Neck to one NovoTHOR bed in a single room in Howell. By appointment, no gym attached.
- Off-peak drive
- 16 min
- Rush hour
- 24 min
- The way there
- Route 9 north, Route 537 east
Route 537 west is open road and moves well, and then you meet Route 9 at Freehold, which is where every minute of variation on this drive lives.
There is no downtown here to drive to, which is more or less the point of the township. Two-acre zoning, horse fencing along most of the road frontage, Route 34 and Route 537 crossing in the middle doing the work a Main Street does somewhere else, Delicious Orchards pulling in half of Monmouth County on an October Saturday, and Laird’s at Scobeyville holding federal distilled spirits plant licence number 1, issued in 1780. The distilling itself moved to Virginia in 1972 and the Colts Neck plant blends, ages and bottles now. Dorbrook takes care of everyone who wants a track and a tennis court, and the Navy has had the Earle property out on Route 34 for generations.
The trip to us runs west on 537 and then south on 9, which is straightforward right up until Freehold. What you find at the end is one NovoTHOR bed in one room at Cherry Tree Plaza — no gym membership attached, nothing else in the space, one person in there at a time. The people who come over from Colts Neck are mostly dealing with the aftermath of physical days rather than anything dramatic: stiff backs, tired legs, shoulders that stopped forgiving them a few years ago.
Neighborhoods and areas within Colts Neck
Scobeyville
Scobeyville is a crossroads village in Colts Neck and the home of Laird & Company, which holds federal distilled spirits plant licence number 1, issued in 1780. The family built here after fire destroyed its Colts Neck Inn distillery in 1849. Distilling moved to North Garden, Virginia in 1972, and the Scobeyville plant now blends, ages and bottles. The site was added to the National Register in 2024.
Bucks Mill
Bucks Mill takes its name from a gristmill built in 1854 and powered by Yellow Brook, run for years by the Buck family until fire destroyed it in 1967. The township's Bucks Mill Recreation Area on Bucks Mill Road has two ponds, ball fields, and walking and horse trails.
Montrose
Montrose straddles the Colts Neck and Marlboro line near Dutch Lane and Boundary roads, and was called Barrentown before it took its present name. The Montrose Schoolhouse of about 1812, the last of the township's six one-room schools, stands at Montrose Road and Cedar Drive and held classes until 1922.
Phalanx
Phalanx is named for the North American Phalanx, a Fourierist commune founded on nearly 700 acres here in 1843 and the longest-lived of roughly thirty such communities in the country. It broke up in 1856 after fire destroyed its mill. A marker on Phalanx Road stands at the site.
Questions from Colts Neck
- Which way out of Colts Neck?
- Route 537 west into Freehold and then Route 9 south. There is no second route worth the trouble — the alternatives all funnel back onto Route 9 around Freehold anyway, having taken longer to get there.
- Is Route 537 slow?
- Not usually. It moves well the whole way across until it reaches Route 9 near the mall, and that intersection is the entire difference between a good trip and a tedious one.
- I am on my feet in the barn or the yard all day — is that what this is for?
- It suits that kind of complaint well, yes. The bed runs over the whole body at once, which fits all-over stiffness better than anything aimed at a single joint. It is cleared for temporary relief of minor muscle and joint pain and for increasing local circulation.
- What hours can I actually get?
- We open at ten on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and at noon on Tuesday and Thursday, with Saturdays by arrangement. The mid-morning slots go first, so ask early if that is what you want.
Also serving near Colts Neck
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 Colts Neck.
16 minutes from Colts Neck
2350 Route 9 South, Cherry Tree Plaza, Howell, NJ 07731. Free parking at the door.