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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
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The place

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.

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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 Island
    146 km · quickest by road, 3h 42m · $14–19
  • Hartford → Shelter Island
    83 km · quickest by road, 6h 8m · $25–35
  • Providence/Warwick → Shelter Island
    101 km · quickest by road, 7h 32m · $33–45
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

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.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    82 km
  2. 02
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    438 km
  3. 03
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    2,624 km
  4. 04
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    2,635 km
  5. 05
    SabaNL

    8 ways of moving, 22 sources

    2,748 km

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