NY27A at Robert Moses Causeway, LI, NY
(with a view of the Great South Bay/Bridge)
(from 511NY)
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Robert Moses Causeway, New York
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The Robert Moses Causeway is an 8.1-mile parkway for passenger vehicles only in Suffolk County, NY, connecting mainland Long Island (near the Bay Shore/West Islip areas) to Captree State Park and Fire Island's Robert Moses State Park. It features both the high-level, twin-span Great South Bay Bridge (10,519.5 feet long [3,206.3 meters]) and the Fire Island Inlet Bridge, and is a major, scenic, well-maintained route for beach access across the Great South Bay.
It is named for the builder and urban planner Robert Moses. The parkway, originally known as the Captree Causeway, connects Long Island to the barrier beach islands, such as Captree Island, Jones Beach Island, and the western tip of Fire Island, to the south. It is the only road/bridge that connects the Long Island mainland to Fire Island. But the causeway, via the Fire Island Inlet Bridge, only provides vehicular access to Robert Moses State Park (RM), on the very western end of the island. The rest of Fire Island is car-free, accessible only via ferries or water taxis, so no, you cannot get to the rest of the Island using this roadway. You could walk along the shoreline from the RM beach at Field 5, to get to the rest of Fire Island, but depending on where you are heading, you are in for one very long walk/hike. I know, as I've walked it a bit myself, about a light year ago, back when I as a teen.
NY27A at Robert Moses Causeway, LI, NY
(with
a view of the Great South Bay/Bridge)
(from
511NY)
Robert Moses Causeway
(Between NY27 & NY27A, the next interchange north of
the above cam location)
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Great South Bay Map -
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Click on the minus sign (-) (found in the camera's
control box on bottom right) a few times for a better view of the causeway
and area in general.)