Red light therapy for Toms River, NJ
Whole-body red light therapy in Howell for Toms River, with honest notes on whether Route 9 or the Parkway is the faster way up.
- Off-peak drive
- 26 min
- Rush hour
- 38 min
- The way there
- Route 9 south, or Garden State Parkway south to exit 82
Route 9 the whole way is the simple version and the Parkway to exit 82 is usually the faster one, and neither of them is a drive you will enjoy for its own sake.
The township runs from the Route 70 line in the north down past the Ocean County Mall and out to the barrier island, and where you start changes this trip more than anything we could tell you about it. From North Dover and the Whitesville Road side you are already halfway here before you have really left home. From downtown, Hooper Avenue or Silverton, it is a proper drive and the Parkway is the honest answer.
Making one trip count
Because it is a distance, we schedule around it rather than pretend otherwise. We would rather put someone from the far end of the township into a mid-morning slot than book them into five o’clock on Route 37 and have the drive undo the point of coming. The bed itself treats the whole body in one go, so once you are here the appointment is brief — the session is short, there is nothing to recover from, and you drive home the same as you arrived, only looser. If the timing matters, say so when you book; the schedule bends more than the posted hours suggest.
Neighborhoods and areas within Toms River
Cranmoor Manor
Cranmoor Manor is a waterfront neighborhood in the 08753 ZIP code, with most of its houses built between 1940 and 1969.
Dover Beaches South
Dover Beaches South is the census name for the part of Toms River Township that sits out on the barrier island, hemmed in by Lavallette to the north and Seaside Heights to the south. Barnegat Bay separates it from the rest of the township, and Route 35 is the only road in or out.
Gilford Park
Gilford Park takes its name from John Gilford, who bought the land in the early 1700s. The yacht club on Riverside Drive keeps a boat ramp and a swimming beach on the Toms River, and gives out scholarships to graduates of the township's high schools every year.
Green Island
Green Island is a peninsula in the Silverton section of Toms River, with Kettle Creek and Barnegat Bay on one side and Silver Bay on the other. Its community association, formed in 1945, runs a clubhouse and beaches for about 300 of the 700 households there.
Ortley Beach
Ortley Beach holds the only public ocean beach Toms River Township owns, half a mile of it between Third Avenue and Harding Avenue. St. Elisabeth's Chapel stood on the oceanfront there from 1885 until Superstorm Sandy carried it off in 2012; the congregation rebuilt on the same street in 2017.
Riviera On The Bay
Riviera on the Bay is a development on Silver Bay in the Silverton part of Toms River. Its beach club, a property owners' association started in 1953, runs the clubhouse and bayfront from Memorial Day to Labor Day for members who have chosen to buy in.
Silver Bay
Silver Bay is the water the Silverton section of Toms River is built around, an arm of Barnegat Bay with Green Island on its northern side. Cattus Island County Park takes up the peninsula east of it, and Silver Bay Road runs inland from the head of it.
Silverton
Silverton is the northeastern section of the township, the ground around Silver Bay, taking in Green Island and several bay beach clubs that serve the streets behind them. Hooper Avenue, Silver Bay Road and Church Road are the roads that carry it.
Boroughs and places next to Toms River
Beachwood
Beachwood was laid out by the New York Times as a summer colony for its employees and became a borough in 1917, taken out of Berkeley Township. It has a beach on the Toms River and the Beachwood Yacht Club, founded in 1939, which still runs a summer sailing school for children.
Seaside Park
Seaside Park is a borough on the barrier island, split off from Berkeley Township in 1898 and about half its present size at the time. Central Avenue, which is Route 35, runs the length of it down to the gate of Island Beach State Park just to the south.
Questions from Toms River
- Parkway or Route 9 from Toms River?
- If you are east of Hooper Avenue, take the Parkway north. If you are up in North Dover near the Route 70 line, Route 9 is shorter and simpler. The two are close enough that traffic decides it more often than the map does.
- Is the trip any different in summer?
- July and August are the awkward months, mostly because Route 37 near the Parkway fills with beach traffic on weekend mornings. Weekday appointments barely notice the season at all.
- Can I come after work?
- You can, but four to six is the worst of it in both directions and you will spend longer in the car than in the room. We hold earlier slots where we can and book outside posted hours regularly.
- How long does the whole thing take once I am there?
- The session is the short part and there is no recovery afterwards — no downtime, nothing you need to plan the rest of your day around. Most people are back in the car well inside an hour.
Also serving near Toms River
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 Toms River.
26 minutes from Toms River
2350 Route 9 South, Cherry Tree Plaza, Howell, NJ 07731. Free parking at the door.