Discovering the Other New York

The North Fork is a 30-mile-long peninsula in the northeast part of Suffolk County, New York, roughly parallel with an even longer peninsula known as the South Fork. Although the peninsula begins east of Riverhead hamlet, the term North Fork can also refer collectively to all the hamlets and villages within the townships of Town of Riverhead and Town of Southold on the east end of Long Island

The North Fork offers beautiful views of Long Island Sound and Peconic/Gardiners Bay. Wineries, vineyards, apple orchards, potato farms and sod farms characterize the North Fork. At the tip of the fork are Orient Point County Park and Orient Beach State Park as well as an often busy ferry terminal connecting Long Island and eastern Connecticut. Areas like Mattituck, Cutchogue, Peconic, Southold, Greenport, East Marion, Orient, and Orient Point are the hamlets on the North Fork. The North Fork also offers fishing, crabbing, and clamming on the bay, sound and adjacent creeks and beaches. Local seafood is often sold and served. Like the South Fork which is home to the famed Hamptons region, the North Fork is also a region popular with second home owners, and summer vacationers, but it has a much more rural feel and character than The Hamptons.