Red light therapy for Point Pleasant Beach, NJ
Twenty-five minutes inland from the boardwalk to a NovoTHOR whole-body bed in Howell, and a good deal longer on a July Saturday. Open year round.
- Off-peak drive
- 25 min
- Rush hour
- 40 min
- The way there
- Route 34 south, Route 35 south
Route 35 north over the Manasquan River and then Route 34 inland, twenty-five minutes for nine months of the year and a test of patience between the bridge and the circle in July.
The town has two populations and they do not overlap much. From late June the boardwalk fills, Arnold Avenue and Broadway are solid, and getting anywhere by car takes twice as long as it should. From October the same streets are quiet enough to park on, and the drive inland to Howell is a clean twenty-five minutes. Both versions of the trip are worth planning for, because the difference between them is fifteen minutes each way.
Who comes in from the beach
Two sorts, in our experience. People who work the season — the boats out of the Manasquan Inlet, the kitchens, the boardwalk businesses that run sixteen-hour days from Memorial Day — and people who live here through the winter and want something to do with a body that has stiffened up.
The bed handles both the same way: one NovoTHOR unit, under twenty minutes a session, FDA-cleared for temporary relief of minor muscle and joint pain and muscle spasm and for increasing local blood circulation. If you have been standing on a deck or a dock since five in the morning, that is the claim that matters. Book ahead in summer — there is one bed, and it does not scale with the season.
Neighborhoods and areas within Point Pleasant Beach
Bay Head Junction
Bay Head Junction sits at the Bay Head line and is named for the rail junction there. The station just over the border opened in 1882 under that name and is still the last stop on the North Jersey Coast Line.
Questions from Point Pleasant Beach
- How much worse is the drive in beach season?
- Materially worse. Route 35 through town and over the Manasquan River bridge carries the entire boardwalk crowd, and a twenty-five minute run can become forty on a Saturday afternoon in July. Early morning and after seven in the evening are close to normal.
- Is there a time of day in summer that actually works?
- Before ten in the morning, mostly. The day trippers have not arrived yet and Route 35 moves. Weekday evenings after the beach empties are the second best window.
- Are you open in the off-season?
- Year round, same hours. We are not a shore business and nothing here closes after Labor Day — which is worth saying to a town where half the storefronts do.
- Is it like a tanning bed?
- No. There is no UV in it at all. It runs red and near-infrared wavelengths, which do not tan or burn you, and the sensation is a mild even warmth rather than heat on the skin.
Also serving near Point Pleasant Beach
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 Point Pleasant Beach.
25 minutes from Point Pleasant Beach
2350 Route 9 South, Cherry Tree Plaza, Howell, NJ 07731. Free parking at the door.