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Wave Quality Rating | 3 |
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Type of Wave | Beach break |
Direction of Wave | Right & left |
Bottom | Sand |
Difficulty | Intermediate surfer |
Crowd Level | Mental |
Hazards | Locals, Rips, Rocks, Jellyfish |
Long beach is a surf town with many aspiring locals and visitors from across the globe. Only 55 minutes via low cost train from NYC, it gets packed in the summer. Winter swells have less population and lack of lifeguards allowing you to access any peak.
In Summer lifeguards are on duty 9am - 6pm, than you can hit any peak. Before that its buses of locals, groms, and kooks all fighting over 3 legal peaks in long beach ny.
It gets good if you know where to go, and have traveled elsewhere for the experience of surfing heavy big cold dark waves.
Waves typically approach Long Island from the Southeast and hit Long Beach's sand bars at an oblique angle. It means that among the typical beach break closeouts, sets will often come in and create lefts. An ongoing beach reclamation project which is fortifying the groins/jetties, has resulted in more predictable sand bars.
train, bus, cab, bicycle, walk, ask one of your 16 freinds who are meeting you there.
Your not coming here for a exotic vacation, but do a search for Long Beach NY and you will see new options being developed.
parking is available on the street for free but very limited. 9am-6pm requires a beach pass @ $10 per person if not local resident.
Drive to lido if you want to pay per car.
Unsound surf shop on Lincolnblvd will rent you a foamie
Yup, we got them clogging up the break.
Long Beach has a main strip in the "west end" of town with many shops, places to eat, bars. Gets going in the summer with the younger crowd.
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