Crest Fishing Pier, Fishing pier in Wildwood Crest, New Jersey, United States

Crest Fishing Pier is a structure extending over 1,000 feet into the Atlantic Ocean, located at Heather Road where the boardwalk meets the waterfront. It features fishing areas, walking space, benches, modern lighting, water stations, and interpretive signs that explain the coastal environment.

The Wildwood Crest Fishing Club owned and operated the pier for more than 85 years before ownership passed to the Borough of Wildwood Crest in 2006. Because the island's outward sweep makes the beach grow about 20 feet wider each year, the pier was lengthened twice to reach the sea. In 2008 it was renovated and made handicapped accessible, and in 2014 the asbestos-covered fishing clubhouse was demolished and replaced by a wooden deck with picnic tables.

The Wildwood Crest Fishing Club owned and ran the pier for more than 85 years before the borough took it over in 2006. When the old fishing clubhouse, laden with asbestos, came down in 2014, a wooden deck with picnic tables took its place. Anglers now fish from a platform that has been lengthened twice as the beach grew seaward.

The pier stands at Heather Road and the Boardwalk, and since 2008 it has been accessible to people with disabilities. The former fishing clubhouse site is now a wooden deck with picnic tables. Plans have been proposed to lengthen the pier, lease space to vendors and build a pavilion.

The beaches here grow wider by about 20 feet each year due to natural sand drifting from northern barrier islands, creating a constantly shifting coastline. This ongoing process means visitors may notice the shoreline and underwater landscape differ noticeably from season to season.