Fire Island New York

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Fire Island is unlike anywhere else on earth. With beautiful beaches,
unique communities, dynamic culture of Pines and Cherry Grove and
miles of boardwalks and walkways to explore, Fire Island has it all!
You will never be bored on Fire Island – unless you want to be!

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Directions


Fire Island is a short drive from the Metropolitan New York area

Take the Cross Island Parkway / Eastern L.I. for 3.9 miles to Exit 29E
Continue on Grand Central Parkway (exit only) for 8.1 miles to Exit 31A
Continue on Meadow Brook Parkway / Jones Beach for 5.8 miles to Exit M6E
Continue on Southern State Parkway / Eastern Long Island for 16 miles to Exit 40
Continue on Robert Moses Causeway / Ocean Beaches for 2.8 miles to Exit RM 2E
Continue on Route 27A / Bay Shore for 2.9 miles to 4th Traffic L
Continue on Maple Avenue (right turn / south) for 0.4 miles to

Fire Island Ferry Terminal (left turn)

Parking

Parking is available at the Ferry Terminal. Parking for the weekend is $40 and the lot fills up early, but there are other lots nearby. If full, leave the Terminal and make a left onto Maple Avenue.
Take the next left onto Shore Line Marine. It is a 4-minute walk back.

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Short trip for New Englanders to Long Island NY.

Marti

We have never been to LI area even though we are from MA so it is a short ride rather than the dreaded trapped in a car forever rides to head south.

Short trips to save gas is on everyones minds. We have not been to the Hudson Valley summer homes or wine country nor have I ever been to Long Island beach areas.

We would not be interested in "the Hamptons " scene. Where would one stay and visit if we love the beach,walk around towns, mom and pop stores and casual eateries.

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I live in Connecticut.
Rather than take a ferry to Fire Island, we have often taken the William Floyd Pky. to Smith Point Park. One parking fee covered the total cost of 4 people going to Fire Island.

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Fire Island Area - Things to Do - Places to Visit


William Floyd -- Floyd Estate

As a member of the Second Continental Congress, 41-year-old William Floyd
was the first of the New York delegates to sign the Declaration of Independence
on August 2, 1776. He was an important merchant and leader who lived on Long Island.

Today his home, the William Floyd Estate, is part of Fire Island National Seashore.

Two hundred and fifty years of history are preserved at the William Floyd Estate,
which contains architectural features and artifacts from three centuries of American life

The 25-room "Old Mastic House," the twelve outbuildings, the family cemetery and the
613 acres of forest, fields, marsh and trails all graphically illuminate the layers of history.

The William Floyd Estate, which was donated to Fire Island National
Seashore in 1965, located on the mainland of Long Island in Mastic
Beach at - 245 Park Drive - Mastic Beach, New York 11951.

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Marti

Thanks, now I can give the kids a history lesson.

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GeoPatSK - Thank you for mentioning the parkway to Smith Point


THE NEW SMITH POINT BRIDGE:

In July 1955, the Shirley-Mastic Chamber of Commerce invited 12,000 people
to break ground for the new Smith Point Bridge to Fire Island.

The new one-quarter mile bridge represented the first step by
Suffolk County to preserve 810 miles of shore frontage for public purposes.

Included in the bridge project was the development of Smith Point County Park,
a facility with a beach frontage of 6,000 feet along the Atlantic Ocean.

Although the new county park was not of the same scale as the state parks
developed by Moses, the park was to include bathing and camping facilities.

The 1,216-foot-long bascule drawbridge, which has a main span of 80 feet,
has a double-leaf, steel-deck design. In the closed position, the span has a
vertical clearance of 22 feet.

The bridge carries two lanes (one lane in each direction) over its 22-foot-wide
roadway, which is flanked on each side by sidewalks. The entire structure was built on
concrete piles, with a reinforced concrete roadway laid on a steel beam superstructure.

The new Smith Point Bridge, which is the southern terminus of the four-lane
William Floyd Parkway -- ( Suffolk CR 46 ) -- opened on July 4, 1959

nycroads.com /crossings/smith-point/