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4 reviews for Smith Point Park Beach
Parking is 12$, T W E L V E F R E A K I N' D O L L A R $! That's madness. park on a block before the bridge and walk. Smith Point is like that drunk uncle that comes to all the BBQs and everyone talks garbage about when he is there but misses him when's he didn't show up to the next event (he's probably killing a 6-pack at Smith Point.)
I'm guessing in a couple of years or one good hurricane that pavilion is going to be a reef. Has the nude part of the beach been mentioned? It's true there's a nude beach section.
Go there the Ocean is good it reminds you of your limits. You pay all this money to live here take advantage of this island and walk along the shore.
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I grew up on this beach. Its nice, big, good boardwalk, never obnoxiously crowded.
SOME white trash....you ARE in Shirley, people. Im allowed to say it because I grew up here.
Parking is $10ish which is ridiculous but if you get the green key or whatever its called now you dont need to pay.
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OK, so today was a perfect June day, and I decided to take a ride out to Montauk and say hi to the lighthouse. Of course, being me, I got going too late in the morning, and ended up getting stuck in the Friday "lemmings steeplechase to the Hamptons" traffic. I have not one iota of patience for bumper-to bumper traffic at any time, but wasting a gorgeous afternoon in traffic is a sacrilege. So, I stopped at a diner, grabbed lunch, and headed back west on Sunrise Highway.
I haven't been down to Smith Point in eons, so I decided to take a ride down there instead. Hopped on the William Floyd Parkway and headed south. I had in mind visiting the Flight 800 memorial, a slow cruise along the boardwalk of FINS, and maybe even going down to the waters' edge to check things out.
Here's what stinks: parking is $10. If I were not still barely existing on unemployment, and I was planning on spending the day, I would have paid. Still wouldn't have been happy, but I would have paid. I know if I had bought an Empire Pass earlier in the season i could have parked today for nothing, but again, I've been unemployed.
Question to the state: How come you don't want poor people at the beach?
The end result is that I drove around a bit, and then went home to sulk. Maybe if I get another chance (after the paychecks start coming in) to get down there this summer, I will go back, and then revisit this review. As it stands now, I'm pissed.
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A great park with boardwalks, campsites, four wheeling, and fishing. It is accessible by boat from the Great South Bay, or take a drawbridge at the end of William Floyd Parkway. In my times, I have known about a local custom and unconventional thrill, in which people jump off this drawbridge (at high tide), and swim to the shore, but I should officially say I don't advise it. Otherwise, its one of the "Worlds Safest Beaches" (see pic for the numbers), regardless of the "white trash". The Suffolk County Parks Police patrol the area, but in my experience, have been very cool not to upset the whole vibe here, unless you're doing something really stupid.
To clear things up regarding the other reviews and the parking situation, Smith Point is a County Park, so I don't think an Empire Pass will get you in free. If you have a Green Key Card, its five clams to park instead of ten. Free admission after 5:30 or 6ish PM.
See my review of The Beach Hut, here (http://www.yelp.com/bi...) and the TWA Filght 800 Memorial, here (http://www.yelp.com/bi...).
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