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
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Coordinates: 39°08′13″N 75°24′35″W
Country	United States
State	Delaware
County	Kent
Elevation	7 ft (2 m)
Time zone	UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
Area code	302
GNIS feature ID	214448[1]