NYC Tri-State Surf Spots

Mellow, long-walling left at Montauk's eastern tip, the Northeast's most-loved longboard wave.

Submerged boulder reef west of Ditch Plains serving up walled-up Montauk rights on SE swells.

Forgiving sand-bottom beachbreak fronting Hither Hills State Park campground in Montauk, the easy summer pick on Long Island's South Fork.

Boulder-sprinkled Montauk beachbreak with shifting peaks that work best low to mid tide.

Due south facing Long Island beachbreak with groyne-formed peaks that fire hollow on solid SE swells and N winds.

Long curving sand beachbreak on the west end of Fire Island, splitting into four parking-field peaks across the tide.

Sandbar peaks at the eastern end of Fire Island, with a long inlet jetty offering shelter from west winds.

South Fork jetty beachbreak in East Hampton with steep, sand-bottom rights when the bars line up.

NYC's closest beachbreak: shifty sand peaks fronting the Rockaway peninsula where the pack often outweighs the swell.

Sand-bottom jetty rights and lefts inside Sandy Hook, smaller and friendlier than the Jersey breaks south.

Sand-bottom jetty beachbreak inside a paid Monmouth County park, the most reliable corner of the Long Branch stretch.

Shifty, hollow peak on the south side of Shark River Inlet, wedged between a stone jetty and the battered fishing pier.

Jetty-segmented Jersey Shore beachbreak with shifting peaks that turn hollow on low to mid tide.

Powerful, jetty-wedged left on the south side of Manasquan Inlet that needs NE or E swell and lower tides to fire.

Crescent-jetty left in Allenhurst that bends fast, bowly sections out of solid winter NE swells at low tide.

Soft, backwashy jetty peak in Avon-by-the-Sea that needs an E or SE swell and lower tides to come together.

Sand-bottom point setup at Sandy Hook's third jetty serving up long right walls on low-incoming southerly swells.

Sand-bottom Jersey jetty break that fires fast, hollow rights on solid southerly swells and a westerly offshore.

Right-hand boulder-and-sand point on the north flank of Montauk Point that wraps E and oversized SE swells.

Famous north-side Manasquan Inlet jetty serving up long, hollow, board-snapping rights when a S/SE swell lights it up.

Open Amagansett beachbreak with shifting sandbars that occasionally fires on winter S swells.

Sectiony righthand boulder pointbreak under Montauk Lighthouse, holding double-overhead size on SE swells with W winds.

Jetty-fed right on the east side of Shinnecock Inlet, peeling longer on SW swells with hollow SE wedges.