Ocean Acres — Ocean Acres Map Poster & Print

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Ocean Acres Map Poster & Print

Ocean Acres is a residential community in Stafford Township, in the southern part of Ocean County, New Jersey. From above it reads like a drawing of branching veins: winding streets curve through dense woodland, split into short courts, and end in rounded cul-de-sacs. Hardly any straight line survives. The houses sit on generous wooded lots, so the street pattern is the main thing visible on the map.

The community sits at the edge of the New Jersey Pinelands, the large protected forest that covers much of the state's southern interior. On a map the contrast is sharp: to the west the streets stop and the pine forest takes over, while to the east the land runs toward Manahawkin, the causeway and the barrier island of Long Beach Island beyond Barnegat Bay.

An Ocean Acres map poster shows a suburb laid out around the land rather than over it. The curving streets follow the gentle terrain of the pine barrens, and the looping pattern repeats across the whole area in slightly different forms. In black and white, the result looks almost like a fingerprint, with each loop and dead end drawn as one continuous, fluid line.