Cedar Point Lighthouse

Cedar Point Lighthouse (4/3/2013)

This was the second of five hikes we did on the southern fork of Long Island the week of April 2. It's Hike #18 ("Cedar Point Lighthouse") in the book Best Easy Day Hikes Long Island, a nice little book although the latitude and longitude of the trail head are completely wrong (they put you about 0.6 miles away from the trail head on a comnpletely different road). However, the parking spot indicated on the book's map is very accurate. The area is also covered in the book Trail Guide to the Southern Fork, as well as in the book Hiking Long Island, another terrific book of the area.

The highlight of today's hike was the 1-mile jaunt along the narrow peninsula with Sag Harbor Bay on our left and Gardiner's Bay on our right, to the abandoned and entirely enchanting lighthouse. The wind was blowing about 30 MPH at us as we headed west to the lighthouse. And I nearly got blown off the lighthouse platform at one point! Suffice it to say, the return was much more pleasant!

Total distance hiked today was about 6 miles in about 2 hours and 45 minutes.

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