Spring Lake Heights (commonly known as "SLH" or "the Heights") is a Borough located in the southern coastal portion of Monmouth County, New Jersey. As of the United States 2000 Census, the borough population was 5,227.Spring Lake Heights was formed as a borough by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 19, 1927, from portions of Wall Township, based on the results of a referendum held on May 3, 1927.New Jersey Monthly magazine ranked Spring Lake Heights as its 28th best place to live in its 2008 rankings of the "Best Places To Live" in New Jersey.A new local news blog, www.heightsonline.wordpress.com, features stories and transcripts of Borough Council meetings so that residents can keep up on the twice-a-month Council meetings even when they don't attend them.Spring Lake Heights is adjacent to Route 35 and Route 71.