Route Description
Route 52 begins along 9th Street in Ocean City, Cape May County, at an intersection with an unnamed road, located 0.01 miles (0.016 km) south of Palen Avenue. The road continues to the northwest on a four-lane, undivided road with a 35 mph (56 km/h) speed limit. The road continues to the southeast past the southern terminus of Route 52 as 9th Street, which terminates at Ocean City’s boardwalk along the Atlantic Ocean. Immediately after beginning, the route becomes the Howard S. Stainton Memorial Causeway, also known as the Ninth Street Bridge, which crosses over Great Egg Harbor Bay on a high-level bridge and then the longer Rainbow Harbor Channel. In between these two channels is an island where the Ocean City Visitor Center is located. After crossing the Rainbow Harbor Channel, the road runs along another island before crossing over the Great Egg Harbor Thoroughfare (part of the Intracoastal Waterway) and then a ship channel on another high-level bridge, where the route enters Somers Point in Atlantic County.
After the ship canal, Route 52 crosses onto the mainland and intersects with County Route 559 (Somers Point Road) and County Route 585 (Shore Road), formerly at the Somers Point traffic circle. In October 2010, the circle was eliminated and replaced by a traffic light. Beyond the former Somers Point Circle, Route 52 becomes a two-lane, 40 mph (64 km/h) road known as MacArthur Boulevard that heads north through commercial areas before entering residential areas. Route 52 comes to an end at an intersection with U.S. Route 9 (New Road), where the road continues northwest as West Laurel Drive, which heads through a residential neighborhood to an interchange with the Garden State Parkway.
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