Riverhead
Riverhead is a town in Suffolk County, on the North Shore and North Fork of Long Island, in New York, United States.
Riverhead is a town in Suffolk County, on the North Shore and North Fork of Long Island, in New York, United States. The population was 35,902 at the time of the 2020 census.
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Worth seeing in and around Riverhead
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Splish Splash
Splish Splash is a 96-acre water park located in Calverton, New York. It has 30 rides and is open for visitors from May to September.
5.6 km · water park in Calverton, New York, USA · Wikipedia
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Getting to Riverhead
- Airports
- John F. Kennedy (JFK), 98 km · LaGuardia (LGA), 101 km · Bradley (BDL), 108 km
- New York → Riverhead115 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · $10–14
- Hartford → Riverhead94 km · quickest by road, 4h 47m · $22–30
- Newark → Riverhead129 km · quickest by road, 3h 11m · $11–15
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Riverhead
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Riverhead. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFrequent car ferries run to the North Fork from Connecticut and Shelter Island.
- Get inFrom Shelter Island, the North Ferry runs every 10-20 minutes between Shelter Island Heights and Greenport, calling next to the train station.
- Get inFrom Connecticut, the Cross Sound Ferry runs hourly trips between 7am and 8pm between New London and Orient Point, at the easternmost end of the Fork, on five different boats, including a passenger-only fast ferry and a repurposed World War II landing craft.
- Get inFares are considerably higher than the Shelter Island, with one-way trips starting at $14.50 for foot or car passengers on the car ferry and $51.00 for a vehicle and no round-trips available.
- Get inTickets on the fast ferry for foot passengers cost even more.
From Wikivoyage: North Fork, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2024-05.
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