Long Island gets treated as the Hamptons plus ninety miles of suburb you drive through to reach them, and that reading throws away almost everything good about the place. The Hamptons are the most overcrowded and most expensive version of a day the North Fork does better, for less money and without the traffic, and I say that with a lot of residents standing behind me.
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So this is my ranked run through the things to do on Long Island, twenty-two of them, strongest first. It opens at the far eastern tip with Camp Hero, where the last surviving radar tower of its kind sits on a bluff above the Atlantic beside concrete bunkers that were given fake house fronts during the war, and the Montauk Point Lighthouse ten minutes along the path from it, authorized by George Washington and lit in 1796. From there it runs through Fire Island and the three-hundred-year-old holly forest growing behind its dunes, the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City, which holds a lunar module Grumman built in Bethpage along with every other one that ever landed on the moon, the North Fork wine country, Oheka Castle, the Vanderbilt estate at Centerport, Sands Point, Greenport, Sagamore Hill, Huntington village, Jones Beach, Belmont Park’s brand-new grandstand and the Big Duck.
I have also put in the parts other guides leave out. Which beaches will turn you away for not being a resident, why you should not feed the birds at the Morton refuge even though the internet tells you to, and the aquarium I would not drive ninety minutes for. The money-saving travel guide and the operators I use out here are linked below if you are planning the trip properly. Tell me in the comments what you would have put on this list instead.
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