Howard Height III has traveled down the sandy road to his family getaway every summer for more than eight decades.

Past the scrub cedars and pine trees. Beyond the familiar plum shrubs that ripen to purple perfection. To some, the Island Beach State Park cottage might look like a shack.

To Height, it’s a sacred slice of family history.

“I’ve been coming here since I was 2 months old,” the Point Pleasant Beach man said. “This is where it all started.”

And now it’s coming to an end.

The Heights and other families who still use four of the seven remaining historic beach cottages have until Friday to leave or face eviction, NJ Advance Media has learned. The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection is preparing to demolish all but one of the buildings as it has long planned.

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