Roadside Americana · New Jersey
Lucy the Elephant
A six-story 1881 elephant you can tour
TypeGiant Roadside Colossus
StateNew Jersey
WhenLate spring–fall
How to visitGrounds free; inside tour ticketed
A 65-foot, six-story elephant-shaped building on the Jersey Shore, built in 1881 to sell real estate and now the oldest surviving roadside attraction in America — a National Historic Landmark you can climb through. Peer out of the howdah at the Atlantic.
The photo
Lucy against the shore sky.
Pair it with
- Margate
- Atlantic City
- Jersey Shore beaches
- Ocean City
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