DIRECTIONS TO SHELTER ISLAND - Sunset Beach Hotel on Crescent Beach
Travel time approximately 2 hours 15 minutes
Start time 9:30 AM
Riding time 2 to 3 hours depending.
Maps and road directions will be given out
I suggest you do not use your navigation system and follow these directions until you get onto the island.
Take the LONG ISLAND EXPRESSWAY eastbound
Take EXIT 71 – Calverton and Hampton Bays
At Stop sign go LEFT to go North. You will stay on Edwards Avenue to the second traffic light (@ 10 minutes): to SOUND AVENUE (Route 48). Make a RIGHT - you will be going east.
Stay on SOUND AVENUE (@ 30minutes). You will see the Soundview Motel on your left and then you will make your first RIGHT – a small street, not well lit on your right called CHAPEL LANE. Go to your first stop sign and make a LEFT- you will be on Route 25.
Continue and follow the signs on your right for the Shelter Island Ferry (Route 114). You will be making a RIGHT turn and then the first LEFT. Stay to your right and follow the ferry line as it loops back around. Buy a road trip ticket on the ferry.
ONCE ON SHELTER ISLAND- Do not move your car until the ferry guy points to you! Continue off the ferry straight and then bear to the right and then straight again as the road loops around. You will see the Chequit Hotel ahead of you. Continue past it and stay straight onto New York Avenue. There is a strict 25mph speed limit along here. You will go past the golf course on your right. At the stop sign make a RIGHT onto West Neck Road. You will be driving along the golf course and continue on this road first up the hill and then down the hill to Crescent beach. As you go around the curve you will see the Sunset Beach hotel on your left.
Look for a parking space along this road that IS NOT marked 24/7. These are only for Islanders and you will be given a $100 ticket if you park there. The first spots are diagonal then you will find parallel parking spots further down.
For those of you who want to relax after the ride we can have lunch on the beach. So bring a cooler to leave in your car.
4 comments:
There are two delis on the Island to buy lunch. One is the Eagle Deli up the hill past the golf course, the other is in town and is called Reddings. If you want to get an expensive lunch on the beach then you could buy that at the Sunset Beach motel.
There will likely be two groups of riders. One will go out with Tripp at a more hectic pace the other will go out with me. I have printed out road directions of the route that I will give out at the start. you can pick up a map of the Island at the ferry station to have it with you.
Thanks Ron
what happens with the rain?! - tara
Ashley
I have asked Tripp by e mail so he should get back to you.
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