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Cape May Point State ParkThe Cape May Point state park, located in Cape May Point, New Jersey, is a park with walking, hiking and nature trails as well as beaches, an exhibit gallery, a ranger office and a lighthouse. Birding Cape May Point State Park is considered to be one of the best places in North America to view the Fall bird migration to the south. Because of this, birding is one of the most prominent activities conducted at the park. Every fall, visitors converge from accross the country to witness the migration of most types of North American migratory birds in great numbers. Every year the a hawk watch is also held, in which the numbers of various types of migratory birds of prey are counted during a several month period. Birds can be seen in the Park at three areas. These are the hawk watching platform (for hawks), the nature and hiking trails (for songbirds) and the beach (shorebirds). For the most part, birds of many varieties can be seen at all of these areas year round. Trails Cape May Point State Park has three hiking trails. The red, handicaped accesible trail is .5 miles long and is a boardwalk. It also has a birding platform and a bird blind. The yellow trail is 1.3 miles long and is part boardwalk and part dirt. It begins from the red trail and has one additional birding platform. The blue trail, closed for a long time due to hurricane damage in the 1960's, reopened again in the 1990's. It is two miles long, part of which is on the beach. There is a Geocaching site on this trail. All trails end at the parking lot.
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