Best anchorages and harbours in United States
749 documented anchorages and harbours in United States, ranked by boaters' ratings: shelter, seabed, services, photos and reviews, ready to open in the BoatMap app.
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301AnchorageUnited StatesBoot Key Harbor
4.2Anchorage and mooring harbour at Boot Key, Marathon, in the Florida Keys, sheltered from all directions on a sand bottom.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, E, SW, S, SE
- 302AnchorageU.S. Virgin Islands
Buck Island, St. Thomas
4.2Moorings on the west side of Buck Island, the small island and National Wildlife Refuge off the south-east coast of St. Thomas.
- Sheltered N, NE, E
303AnchorageUnited StatesSt Marys , Georgia
4.2Large anchorage off the waterfront town of St Marys, Georgia, on the St Marys River about 4.5 miles west of the ICW near the Florida border.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, E, SW, S
- 304AnchorageUnited States
Town of Wareham Moorings
4.2Transient mooring buoys managed by the Wareham harbour master on the Wareham River, a tributary of Buzzards Bay in Massachusetts.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, E, SW, S, SE
- 305AnchorageUnited States
Yellow Bank
4.2US Navy recreation marina on Bayou Grande, at the north-east corner of Naval Air Station Pensacola in Florida.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, E, SE
- 306AnchoragePuerto Rico
Bahía de San Juan
4.2Anchorage in San Juan Bay, 0.8 NM south of the walls of Old San Juan, on the north coast of Puerto Rico.
- Sheltered NW, NE, W, E, SW, S, SE
307AnchorageUnited StatesKittery Point
4.2Mooring and anchorage area at Pepperrell Cove, just inside the mouth of the Piscataqua River in southern Maine.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, E, SW
- 308AnchorageUnited States
Little River Inlet
4.2Inlet anchorage where the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway meets the sea near Calabash, on the North Carolina and South Carolina line.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, E, S, SE
- 309AnchoragePuerto Rico
Mangroves
4.2Anchorage among the mangrove cays 3.2 NM south-east of Salinas, west of the entrance to Jobos Bay on the south coast of Puerto Rico.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, E, SW, S
- 310AnchorageU.S. Virgin Islands
Tektite Reef
4.2Dive mooring off Cabritte Horn, on the east side of Great Lameshur Bay on St. John, over the reef where the Tektite underwater habitat sat in 1969 and 1970.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, E, S, SE
311AnchorageUnited StatesThimble Islands
4.2Archipelago of pink-granite islands and rocky outcrops in Long Island Sound, off Stony Creek in Branford, Connecticut.
- Sheltered N, NE, E, S, SE
- 312AnchorageU.S. Virgin Islands
Trunk Bay
4.2Bay on the north shore of St. John within Virgin Islands National Park, with the park's underwater snorkelling trail around Trunk Cay.
- Sheltered E, SW, S, SE
313AnchorageUnited StatesBanana River/ Canaveral
4.2Anchorage in the Banana River near Port Canaveral, by the Canaveral Barge Canal in Brevard County, Florida.
- Sheltered W, E, SW, S, SE
- 314AnchoragePuerto Rico
Bahía de Boquerón
4.2Anchorage in Boquerón Bay, Cabo Rojo, on the west coast of Puerto Rico, often described by cruisers as the most popular anchorage on the island.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, E, S, SE
315AnchorageUnited StatesLog Point
4.2Anchorage off Elliott Key in Biscayne National Park, Florida. Sand bottom with good holding, sheltered from the north through south.
- Sheltered N, NE, E, SE, S
316AnchorageUnited StatesSquirrel Creek
4.2Quiet tidal creek anchorage on the lower Eastern Shore of Virginia, off the Chesapeake Bay.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, E, SW, S, SE
- 317AnchoragePuerto Rico
Puerto de Arecibo
4.1Anchorage in the harbour of Arecibo on the north coast of Puerto Rico, close under Punta Morrillos and its 1898 lighthouse.
- Sheltered N, NE, E, SW, S, SE
318AnchorageUnited StatesBlue Bay
4.1Anchorage on Aquia Creek off the Potomac River in northern Virginia, about 45 miles south of Washington.
- Sheltered N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, NW
319AnchorageUnited StatesBrenton Cove
4.1Anchorage and mooring field in Newport Harbour, Rhode Island, off Fort Adams State Park, on a sand and mud bottom.
- Sheltered W, E, SW, S, SE
- 320AnchorageUnited States
Aberdeen Creek
4.1Mooring on the South River near Edgewater, Maryland, close to Annapolis and the Chesapeake Bay.
- Sheltered N, NE, SW, W, NW
- 321AnchorageUnited States
Duck Island Anchorage, Westbrook
4.1Anchorage behind Duck Island off Westbrook on the Connecticut shore of Long Island Sound, sheltered by the island and its breakwaters.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, E, SW, S, SE
322AnchorageUnited StatesOwen parc beach
4.1Mooring buoy field off Owen Park, a public park and beach on Vineyard Haven Harbour, Tisbury, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, SW, S, SE
323AnchorageUnited StatesWisteria Island
4.1Anchorage in Key West Bight, the historic harbour on the north side of Key West, with a mud bottom.
- Sheltered N, NW
324AnchorageUnited StatesCoupeville Wharf
4.1Anchorage and public wharf in Penn Cove off the town of Coupeville, on Whidbey Island, Washington. Mud bottom, sheltered from south-west through south to south-east.
- Sheltered SW, S, SE
325AnchorageUnited StatesHilo roadstead
4.1Open roadstead anchorage in Hilo Bay, on the windward coast of the island of Hawaii, behind the long Hilo breakwater.
- Sheltered N, NE, W, E, SW, S, SE
- 326AnchoragePuerto Rico
Punta Cucharas
4.1Anchorage off Punta Cucharas, 3.2 NM west of the Club Náutico de Ponce, inside the Punta Cucharas nature reserve on the south coast of Puerto Rico.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, S
- 327AnchoragePuerto Rico
Anclaje Isabela, Isla de Mona
4.1Anchorage off the west coast of Mona island, 0.8 NM south of Sardinera, in the Mona Passage 66 km west of Puerto Rico.
- Sheltered N, NE, E, SE
- 328AnchoragePuerto Rico
Cayo Norte
4.1Anchorage off the south beaches of Cayo Norte, a private cay 0.6 NM north-east of Culebra, 2.9 NM from Dewey.
- Sheltered N, NE
- 329AnchoragePuerto Rico
Piedra del Carabinero, Isla de Mona
4.1Mooring buoy off the Piedra del Carabinero on the south-west coast of Mona island, near Playa Carabinero, 1.3 NM south of the Isabela anchorage.
- Sheltered N, NE, E
- 330AnchorageUnited States
Rodriguez Key
4.1Reef anchorage off Key Largo in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, marked by a 45-foot lighted steel tower. Sand bottom.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, SW, S