Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Atlantic Highlands, NJ

Atlantic Highlands is a borough in Monmouth County, New Jersey, in the Bayshore region overlooking the meeting of Raritan Bay and the Atlantic Ocean — not to be confused with its inland neighbor Highlands borough next door.

Atlantic Highlands was incorporated as a borough on February 28, 1887, from portions of Middletown Township, and was reincorporated on September 1, 1891.

The borough's name comes from its location on high ground overlooking the Atlantic Ocean.

The 2020 United States census counted 4,414 people in Atlantic Highlands, living in 1,949 households.

Atlantic Highlands contains Mount Mitchill, which rises 266 feet above sea level and is the highest point on the eastern seaboard south of Maine.

The county-run Mount Mitchill Scenic Overlook offers views of Sandy Hook, Raritan Bay and the New York skyline, and hosts Monmouth County's 9/11 Memorial.

The community was laid out beginning in 1879 by the Atlantic Highlands Association, a group of Methodist leaders who developed it as a camp-meeting and resort town served by steamboats from New York City.

The borough's municipal harbor, built from 1938 through 1940, is described as the largest municipal harbor on the East Coast, home to about 715 boats; high-speed ferry service to New York City began in 1986 and continues today with SeaStreak.

During Prohibition, Atlantic Highlands' secluded coves made it a haven for bootleggers running liquor in from offshore.

The steamers Sandy Hook and Monmouth carried passengers to the borough's Central Railroad of New Jersey pier for decades; after the pier burned in 1966, its rail route became part of the Henry Hudson Trail.