Cape May Point

Cape May Point is a place I return to because it’s never exactly the same twice, even in the same month.

Access is the first thing to plan: entry points, permits, and the time of day the road is drivable.

You can spend three days at Cape May Point and only scratch the surface of the migratory coastal hawk and songbird funnel.

My default advice is to go september through november. Outside that window there are still good days here, but the baseline quality drops.

Gear advice is boring: something long, something short, and enough layers that you’re not rearranging in the car.

My most memorable morning there was mid-season, soft fog, two dozen birds in a thirty-minute window, and I remember about three of them.

Anyone who tells you Cape May Point is an easy place hasn’t been on a day where the wind picked up by nine.

I’ll keep updating this page as I visit through the year. Take the logistics as rough guidance, not a route sheet.