How To Check Ocean City's Crowdedness On Memorial Day Weekend

OCEAN CITY, NJ — However you spend Memorial Day weekend, be safe. But if you're unsure about leaving home and exploring Ocean City, there are several ways to help determine its crowdedness in certain areas.

Common Areas

Attheshore.com features about 90 outdoor live streams around Ocean City, including the beaches, boardwalk and Asbury Avenue. Select one of the many live streams and determine whether there's enough space for social distancing and your comfort level.

The website also features cameras around the Jersey Shore, South Jersey, Philadelphia and even surf cams in Portugal and England (if you're curious).

Visiting Businesses

For better or worse, Google can analyze certain people's data to determine whether a business might get busy at a certain time. Simply Google a business, and the service can show you how busy a business is at that moment and how busy it might get later.

It's difficult to determine how reliable its future projections might be, since Ocean City becomes a different place during Memorial Day weekend. But it could help if there's a certain place in Ocean City where you want to go.

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Open or Closed

The coronavirus continues to affect the way businesses operate. Patch created an Ocean City business directory where owners can tell readers whether their business is open or closed and how the coronavirus has affected operations.

Click here to add your business or read the directory. Nearly 100 businesses have contributed. The directory gets into Ocean City Patch's daily newsletter for maximum visibility.

Read more: NJ Coronavirus Updates: Here's What You Need To Know

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