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Main Beach Beaches

Main Beach

East Hampton, NY · Long Island / The Hamptons$$

Main Beach in East Hampton, New York, has a pavilion where the Beach Hut on Main sells food, and the Maidstone Club is right next door. Summer parking at the village beaches is…

Howe Caverns Caves

Howe Caverns

Howes Cave, NY · Mohawk Valley$$

The traditional tour at Howe Caverns, about 40 miles from Albany, goes 156 feet underground and includes a quarter-mile boat ride on the Lake of Venus. Lester Howe crossed that…

Niagara Falls Lakes & rivers

Niagara Falls

Niagara Falls, NY · Niagara Gorge, Western New York$

From Terrapin Point on Goat Island, in New York's Niagara Falls State Park, you stand above Horseshoe Falls as 681,750 gallons go over it every second. Luna Island sits between…

Kaaterskill Falls Lakes & rivers

Kaaterskill Falls

Haines Falls, NY · Catskill Mountains, Greene County, New YorkFree

Kaaterskill Falls drops in two tiers down a rock amphitheater in the eastern Catskills, about 260 feet in all, an upper plunge of roughly 180 feet into a shallow pool, then a…

Taughannock Falls Lakes & rivers

Taughannock Falls

Trumansburg, NY · Finger Lakes, New York$

A stone amphitheater at the end of the Gorge Trail puts you below the 215-foot plunge at Taughannock Falls State Park in New York. The trail is about three quarters of a mile…