Looking for family Halloween events on Long Island’s East End? Options include aquarium activities and museum trick-or-treating in Riverhead, a historic haunted village in Southampton, a fall festival in Wading River, and celebrations in Sag Harbor and Greenport. Separate evening ghost investigations have their own participation requirements. Choose one town…
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For oysters on Long Island’s East End, start with Greenport for a restaurant visit, New Suffolk for a guided tasting and shucking experience, or Little Ram Oyster Company for a private group outing. In Southold, Shellfisher Preserve offers appointment-based visits with a connection to the region’s oyster-growing history. East Hampton…
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Did You Know? In the mid-1970s, a North Fork high school student named Al Krupski noticed that nobody around him was growing pumpkins. He planted some anyway. The October pumpkin field is now one of the things the East End is known for, and Krupski Farms in Peconic is still…
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Did You Know? In 1973, Alex and Louisa Hargrave planted more than ten thousand vines on a former farm in Cutchogue. It was the first commercial planting of European wine grapes on Long Island, and the region’s wine industry grew from there. Each fall harvest out here is the region…
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Did You Know? The only Revolutionary War battle fought on the East End started with soldiers carrying whaleboats across a Southold beach in the dark. They rowed around Shelter Island, took Sag Harbor before sunrise, and lost no one. There is a version of this trip where you leave early,…
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Did You Know? Some of the ground at Wickham’s Fruit Farm in Cutchogue has been under cultivation since 1661. Pick an apple there and you are standing on land that has grown fruit for more than three centuries. Fall arrives on Long Island’s East End as a change in traffic…
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Montauk is known for its beaches, bluffs, fishing, and surf. But seeing this end of Long Island from horseback riding offers a different kind of access to the landscape. Horseback riding lets you explore hidden trails and scenic views. Guided rides travel through open parkland and toward the shoreline, combining…
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Did You Know? The Paumanok Path runs 125 miles from Rocky Point out to Montauk Point, crossing the towns of Brookhaven, Riverhead, Southampton, and East Hampton before it ends at the lighthouse. Several of the trails in this guide are stretches of that same path, which means an easy afternoon…
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Looking for sunflowers or a cut-your-own bouquet experience on Long Island’s East End? The North Fork offers a concentrated mix of flower farms and farm stands, while South Fork farms offer seasonal bouquets, markets, and select flower experiences. By mid-summer, sunflowers often appear at East End farm stands and in…
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Head east past the farm fields and you start noticing them. Tall shingled towers with four long sails, standing on village greens, behind old saltbox houses and at the edge of working farmland. They are not decorations. They are surviving machinery from an agricultural economy that ran on wind power…
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Looking for sunflowers or a cut-your-own bouquet experience on Long Island’s East End? The North Fork offers a concentrated mix of flower farms and farm stands, while South Fork farms offer seasonal bouquets, markets, and select flower experiences featuring late summer flowers. By mid-summer, sunflowers often appear at East End…
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Estimated reading time: 6 minutes Each summer, humpback and finback whales feed in the water off Montauk, close enough that a boat can carry you out and back in an afternoon. Each winter, harbor seals haul out on the sandbars and rocks along the shoreline, sometimes by the hundred. If…
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