Great Egg Harbor River
Wild & Scenic
Atlantic / Camden Co. · 57 mi · Class I
60.4CFS/ 3.74 ft
Flood
Stable
Optimal: 100–600 CFS · USGS #01411000
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57 mi
Length
Class I
Difficulty
100–600 cfs
Optimal
360 cfs
Avg Flow
324 cfs
Hist. Median
#01411000
USGS Gauge
National Wild & Scenic River (1992) · Pinelands National Reserve

A Wild and Scenic river through the New Jersey Pine Barrens — the Great Egg Harbor flows 57 miles from Camden County to the Atlantic Ocean at Ocean City. Tea-colored water winds through Atlantic white cedar swamps, pitch pine forests, and tidal salt marsh. One of the cleanest rivers on the Eastern Seaboard, filtered through the Kirkwood-Cohansey Aquifer that underlies the Pine Barrens.

Trip sections
New Brooklyn to Penny Pot — Class I, Pine Barrens cedar water
Penny Pot to Mays Landing — Class I, widening river
Mays Landing to Ocean City — tidal estuary
Outfitters
Palace Restaurant & Kayak Rentals
Great Egg Harbor River trips from Mays Landing
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Data Quality

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