places where you won't be able to wipe the wag off your dog's tail - Ocean View, DE
The Park
James Farm was created as an ecological preserve through a gift of 150 acres to Sussex County in 1992 from Mary Lighthipe in memory of her son Harold. Beginning in 1998, the Center for the Inland Bays has managed the property for the benefit of the public.
The Walks
A patchwork of color-coded trails explores this thumb of land that pokes into the Indian River Bay. You move your dog through an old horse pasture that has been reforested with a planting of 4000 young trees and then push into a maritime forest on the way to a small sandy beach on Pasture Point Cove. Dogs will love the silky soft sands and gentle waters of the bay. For an open field trot, don’t forget the Purple Trail across Cedar Neck Road. There is no better place to take your dog for a walk at the beach than James Farm.
Where The Paw Meets The Earth: Wide, paw-friendly trails
Workout For Your Dog - Level throughout
Swimming - No place better than Indian River Bay where the water is knee-deep for a quarter-mile out
Restrictions On Dogs - None
Something Extra
Beginning in 2003, James Farm has been one of 14 locations in Delaware’s inland bays used for oyster gardening. More than one million oysters have been deployed to build reefs that will stabilize the bay floor and filter the waters for a more energized aquatic environment. It is estimated that a single oyster can filter 50 gallons of water and more than 100,000 oysters were introduced to the reef at Pasture Point Cove. The oysters attach themselves to a solid substrate - often another oyster - and begin building a reef habitat. Natural oysters have been gone from Delaware’s inland bays for over 30 years but someday the efforts of this oyster gardening may yield harvests once again.
Phone - (302) 645.7325
Admission Fee - None
Directions - Ocean View, Sussex County; traveling south on Delaware 1, make your first right after crossing Indian River Inlet onto Road 360. Continue to the end and make a right on Cedar Neck Road. The parking lot is on the left, just past the tennis club. Approaching on Route 26, make a left on Cedar Neck.
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