Shelter Island
Shelter Island is an island town in eastern Suffolk County, New York, United States, near the eastern end of Long Island.

Shelter Island is an island town in eastern Suffolk County, New York, United States, near the eastern end of Long Island. The population was 3,253 at the time of the 2020 census.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Shelter Island
- Airports
- Bradley (BDL), 100 km · Rhode Island T. F. Green (PVD), 105 km · John F. Kennedy (JFK), 130 km
- New York → Shelter Island146 km · quickest by road, 3h 42m · $14–19
- Hartford → Shelter Island83 km · quickest by road, 6h 8m · $25–35
- Providence/Warwick → Shelter Island101 km · quickest by road, 7h 32m · $33–45
- 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 Shelter Island
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 Shelter Island. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inIn order to get onto this island, you must take either: North Ferry, +1 631-749-0139.
- Get inAt the end of Wiggins Street, ferry traffic makes a hard right turn and continues turning right to enter the final staging area.
- Get inThe ferry line takes you away from the ferry, around a loop, and back in line facing the ferry dock and passenger terminal.
From Wikivoyage: Shelter Island, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2021-05.
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