Pickering Beach, Delaware

Pickering Beach is an unincorporated community in Kent County, Delaware, United States. Pickering Beach is located along the Delaware Bay at the end of Pickering Beach Road, southeast of Dover.[2] The beach itself is an established horseshoe crab sanctuary,[3] with the crabs spawning there in early summer.

A large number of horseshoe crabs gather on the shore line in Pickering Beach, Delaware.

Pickering Beach, Delaware
Unincorporated community
Pickering Beach is located in Delaware
Pickering Beach
Pickering Beach
Pickering Beach is located in the United States
Pickering Beach
Pickering Beach
Coordinates: 39°08′13″N 75°24′35″W
CountryUnited States
StateDelaware
CountyKent
Elevation
7 ft (2 m)
Time zoneUTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-4 (EDT)
Area code302
GNIS feature ID214448[1]

References
  1. "Pickering Beach". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. Delaware Department of Transportation (2008). Delaware Official Transportation Map (PDF) (Map). Dover: Delaware Department of Transportation.
  3. "Delaware Ecotourism at ecoDelaware.com : Pickering Beach, an official horseshoe crab sanctuary". www.ecodelaware.com. Retrieved October 5, 2022.


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