Boating, Fishing, and Travel Information for Rye, NY
Rye, NY is located in Westchester County, NY, on the western shore of Long Island Sound. It has several places of interest along the water including Rye Beach and the Rye Playland. Just north of Rye is the Edith G. Read Natural Park and Wildlife Sanctuary. Nautical chart for Rye, NY and Western Long Island Sound
Things to See & Do in Rye, NY
Rye Playland
For great family fun, don’t miss the Rye Playland – a 279-acre theme park with an amusement park, a boardwalk and beach, a boating lake, and a casino. The park first opened in 1928 and was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1987 – one of only two amusement parks in the US to receive this status. Their famous Dragon Coaster was built in 1929. Playland also offers a lot of after dark activities, bringing big artists regularly to its main stage, as well offering as wide variety of strolling entertainment throughout the park. They have free fireworks on Friday nights throughout the summer.
Edith G. Read Natural Park and Wildlife Sanctuary
This 179-acre park on Western Long Island Sound is a sanctuary for a wide variety of birds and marine life. It is home to a great diversity of marine life. The national Audubon Society has recognized it as an important Bird Area for the habitats and flyway it offers. Visitors can hike three miles of trails and visit a portion of publicly accessible shore and intertidal habitat. A nature center features exhibits and list of seasonal bird species seen in the park.
Rye Beach
This historic park and public beach offers a variety of family activities including swimming, kayak and SUP rentals, a duck ponds, and a guided beach path walk. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003 as it houses several historically important buildings including a bathing complex done in Mission Revival style.
Rye Town Boat Basin
Operated by the City of Rye, this marina offers 350 boat slips, slips for kayaks and SUPs (and winter storage) along with a public boat launch ramp and marine pump-out services. The Boat Basin can be found at the most northern navigable end of Milton Harbor. The harbormaster can be reached at (914) 967-2011.
Boating in Rye, NY Map View
The area from Great Captain Island southwestward is fringed with rocks, bare and submerged, and foul ground. Great Captain Rocks, part of a reef 0.3 mile southeastward of Port Chester Light 4, uncover 5 to 6 feet; a buoy marks the southern end of the reef. Transport Rock, about 0.3 mile south-southwestward of Manursing Island, is part of several ledges generally bare at high water that extend some 0.3 mile offshore. An opening suitable for small craft leads to Rye Beach; it is buoyed.
Playland, a recreational center at Rye Beach, about 2.4 miles southwest of Great Captain Island, has prominent twin towers at the entrance that are conspicuous from a southeasterly direction. Westward and close to the north breakwater is a former ferry landing in disrepair. A breakwater extends eastward from the south end of Rye Beach. The area between the former ferry landing and the south breakwater is reserved for swimming.
Forbes Rocks, about 0.4 mile south of the Rye Beach breakwater, are partly bare at low water, on a reef with depths of 4 to 11 feet that extends 250 yards to the southward and eastward. A buoy marks the east end of the reef. A channel good for a depth of 9 feet leads southward of buoyed Forlies Rocks to the ruins of a wharf at Oakland Beach. Another channel with a least depth of 8 feet leads southward from Oakland Beach to the sound.
Porgy Shoal, about 0.8 mile south of the Rye Beach breakwater, has a least found depth of 5 feet; it is marked by a lighted buoy.
Scotch Caps are three rocky islets 1.4 miles southwestward from Porgy Shoal and on the northwest side of the extensive reefs that make out 0.9 mile southwestward of Milton Point. The southerly end of the reefs is marked by a lighted bell buoy about 0.6 mile southward of Scotch Caps. The entire area of the reef northward and northeastward of the lighted bell buoy is very broken and should be avoided even by small craft in the absence of local knowledge.
West Rock, just south of the south end of Scotch Caps, is marked by a buoy.
Milton Harbor, between Peningo Neck and Hen Island, is used as a summer anchorage by small pleasure craft. It is protected from all but southwesterly winds. The harbor depths decrease from 8 feet between Scotch Caps and the southwest end of Hen Island to 6 feet abreast Milton Point.
Foul ground is on the northwest side near Hen Island; otherwise the principal danger in the harbor is a rock bare at low water and marked by a buoy a little northward of midway between Milton Point and the northeast end of Hen Island. The best entrance is between the buoys 0.4 mile southwestward of Scotch Caps.
A yacht club and landing are near the southwest end of Milton Point. Near the clubhouse is a prominent white flagstaff from which lights are exhibited from sunset to sunrise during the summer.
A dredged channel, marked by buoys, leads through the harbor from about 400 yards northward of Milton Point to the city boat basin and marina below Mill Pond. Two boatyards are in the harbor. The largest marine railway can handle craft up to 40 feet in length; gasoline, water, ice, marine supplies, and complete engine and hull repairs are available. The city harbormaster is at the boat basin.
