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The park is located across the Great South Bay from Patchogue and is contained within the Fire Island National Seashore. [1] Watch Hill is located on the western edge of the 1,363-acre (5.52 km 2) Otis Pike Fire Island High Dune Wilderness, the only federally designated wilderness area in the State of New York, containing a variety of barrier ...
On September 20, 2009, at 10:10 eastern daylight time, the passenger ferry Fire Island Belle, with 100 passengers, the vessel master, and two deckhands on board, experienced an engine room fire in the Great South Bay between Long Island and Fire Island, New York.
The Fire Island Wilderness area, located on the eastern end of Fire Island, is the only federally designated U.S. Wilderness Area in New York State. It is accessed from the Watch Hill Ferry Terminal located on the Patchogue River one block south and west of the Patchogue train station
Fire Island is the large center island of the outer barrier islands parallel to the South Shore of Long Island in the U.S. state of New York. Occasionally, the name is used to refer collectively to not only the central island, but also Long Beach Barrier Island , Jones Beach Island , and Westhampton Island , since the straits that separate ...
Fire Island National Seashore (FINS) is a United States National Seashore that protects a 26-mile (42 km) section of Fire Island, an approximately 30-mile (48 km) long and 0.5-mile (0.80 km) wide barrier island separated from Long Island by the Great South Bay. The island is part of New York State's Suffolk County and the Outer Barrier.
The Watch Hill facility of the National Park Service (with a small marina, restaurant, campground, nature trail and seasonal tours and activities) is approximately 1 ⁄ 2 mile (0.80 km) east, and Water Island (a community, not a separate island) is approximately one mile (1.6 km) to the west.
Seastreak will begin operating out of the Belford Terminal in Middletown on Dec. 5 in a move that allows the ferry provider to expand its reach. Seastreak Belford ferry routes, fares, opening set ...
Point O' Woods is a hamlet that consists of a private vacation retreat on Fire Island, New York, United States.Although it has services such as a ferry port, a general store, church and fire department, only members and their guests are allowed in through the hamlet's gate or on the private ferry that runs to Point O' Woods from Bay Shore, New York.