40 Beaches of East Hampton

Introduction:

I was sitting at the kitchen table with my wife not too long ago, wondering how it was possible that I have lived here on the East End of Long Island, NY, for over 30 years and have not yet visited all the beaches of East Hampton Township (which includes the villages of East Hampton proper, Montauk, Amagansett, Springs, Wainscott and part of Sag Harbor).  So we made a vow to walk all 40 beaches of this town and record our observations on this blog!    We thought it might be useful as there are no in-depth beach guides for this area (either on the web or in print) and, in the summer at least, this town is a major destination for beach visitors.

I have organized the 40 beaches in to 7 areas and will post each area separately to avoid an overly lengthy post.   Each beach will be described separately with an emphasis on

• How to get there and where to park
• What to find there (sand, rocks, shells, boulders, impassable obstructions,…)
• What we do with the stuff we find on the beaches (make jewelry of course)
• What you can do there (bathe, walk, collect shells, fish, dive, etc)
• Some interesting lore, tales or history
• I promise that I will have personally walked every beach and shoreline of this town by the end of this!

Two beaches are strictly speaking in Southampton town, but we like to walk them anyway! (they are #1 and #40)

My “assistants” in this project need to be acknowledged.  They are Kenda (our 2-year-old German Shepherd) who usually has a piece of drift wood in her mouth, and Maria, my wife, who likes to exercise, live healthy and do yoga:

My Assistants

I Sag Harbor and Northwest

1) Foster Memorial Beach

2) Haven’s Beach

3) Barcelona Neck

4) Northwest Landing Beach

5) Mile Hill Road Beach

6) Cedar Point Park

II Three Mile Harbor and Springs

7) Sammy’s Beach

8 ) Maidstone Park Beach

9) Lion Head Beach

10) Kings Point Beach

11) Gerard Drive

12) Louse Point Beach

III Amagansett, Napeague and Hither Hills Bay Beaches

13) Barnes Landing Beach

14) Albert’s Landing Beach

15) Abraham’s Landing Beach

16) Promised Land and Lazy Point

17) Napeague Harbor

18) Hither Hills Bay Beaches

IV Montauk Bay Beaches

19) Navy Road Beaches

20) Culloden Point

21) Gin Beach

22) Oyster Pond and Shagwong Point

23) North Road beaches

V Montauk Ocean Beaches

24) Camp Hero

25) Amsterdam Beach

26) Ditch Plains Beach

27) Montauk Beach

28) Montauk to Gurney’s Inn

29) Hither Hills Campgrounds Beaches

VI Napeague, Amagansett Ocean Beaches

30) Napeague stretch beaches

31) Beach Hampton

32) Atlantic Beach

33) Indian Wells beach

VII East Hampton and Wainscott Ocean Beaches

34) Two Mile Hollow Beach

35) Wiborg Beach

36) Main Beach East

37) Main Beach West

38) Georgica Beach

39) Wainscott Beach

40) Sagg Main Town Beach

Map indicating location of all 40 beaches