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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- 421AnchorageUnited States
Scorpion anchorage
3.6Cove with a pier on the north-east side of Santa Cruz Island, in Channel Islands National Park off Ventura, California.
- Sheltered W, SW, S
- 422AnchorageUnited States
Price Cove
3.6Anchorage in a cove off Smith Creek on the lower Potomac River, Maryland, with sand and mud holding.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, E, SE
- 423AnchorageUnited States
Raymond Rocks East
3.6Anchorage off East Norwalk in the Norwalk Islands, Long Island Sound, Connecticut, mud bottom.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, SW, S
- 424AnchorageUnited States
Patriots Point Anchorage
3.6Anchorage off Patriots Point at the mouth of the Cooper River, in Charleston Harbour, South Carolina, on a sand and mud bottom.
- Sheltered NW, NE, W, E, SW, SE
- 425AnchorageUnited States
Horseshoe Bay
3.6Anchorage on Prince of Wales Island in the Alexander Archipelago of Southeast Alaska, a remote stretch of the Inside Passage with no road access.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, E, SW, S, SE
- 426AnchorageUnited States
Howell Pt
3.6Anchorage off Howell Point at the wide mouth of the Sassafras River, on the upper Chesapeake Bay, Maryland.
- Sheltered SW, S, SE
- 427AnchorageUnited States
Matia Island
3.6Anchorage in East Sound, the long inlet that cuts into Orcas Island in the San Juan Islands of Washington.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, SW, S
428AnchorageUnited StatesWaikiki
3.6Open roadstead off Waikiki Beach on the south shore of Oahu, Honolulu, Hawaii.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE
429AnchorageUnited StatesCape Porpoise Harbour
3.6Anchorage at Cape Porpoise, the original village of Kennebunkport on the southern Maine coast, on a sand and mud bottom with shelter from NW through E and round to SW.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, E, SW
430AnchorageUnited StatesPortsmouth
3.6Anchorage on the Piscataqua River at Portsmouth, on the Maine and New Hampshire boundary, mud bottom.
- Sheltered NW, N, W, SW, S, SE
431AnchorageUnited StatesSeaplane Lagoon
3.6Enclosed 110-acre basin on the San Francisco Bay side of Alameda Point, California, on the site of the former Naval Air Station Alameda.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, E
- 432AnchorageU.S. Virgin Islands
Hawksnest Bay
3.6Bay on the north shore of St. John between Caneel Bay and Trunk Bay, within Virgin Islands National Park.
- Paid
- Sheltered NW, NE, W, E, SW, S, SE
- 433AnchoragePuerto Rico
Playa Cayo Piñeiro
3.6Anchorage off the north beach of Isla Piñeros, in front of Ceiba on the east coast of Puerto Rico, 0.4 NM from the Isla Piñeros anchorage.
- Sheltered W, SW, S, SE
434AnchorageUnited StatesSan Marco Island
3.6Mooring and anchoring area off Watson Island in Biscayne Bay, Miami, on the north side of the MacArthur Causeway, with sand holding and shelter from all directions.
- Sheltered N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, W, NW
- 435AnchorageU.S. Virgin Islands
Great St. James, north side
3.6Anchorage off the north shore of Great St. James, the island off the east end of St. Thomas, with a beach ashore.
- Sheltered E, SW, S, SE
- 436AnchorageUnited States
Rocky Point
3.6Anchorage in Stirling Basin off Greenport, on the North Fork of Long Island, with sand and mud bottom.
- Sheltered E, SW, S, SE
437AnchorageUnited StatesGeorgetown anchorage
3.6Anchorage on the Sampit River off the ICW at Georgetown, South Carolina, with sand and mud holding and shelter from all directions.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, E, SW, S, SE
- 438AnchorageUnited States
Live Oak Point
3.6Anchorage off Live Oak Point on the Halifax River, the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, near Ponce Inlet, south of Daytona Beach, Florida.
- Sheltered N, NE, W, E, S
- 439AnchorageUnited States
Mattituck Creek anchorage
3.6Anchorage in Mattituck Creek on the North Fork of Long Island, reached from the south shore of Long Island Sound.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, E, SW, S, SE
440AnchorageUnited StatesNorth Point State Park
3.6Anchorage off North Point State Park, a peninsula between the Patapsco and Back rivers near the head of the Chesapeake Bay, at Edgemere in Baltimore County.
- Sheltered W, SW, S, SE
- 441AnchorageUnited States
Camp Island
3.6Anchorage off Camp Island in the Merchant Row archipelago, between Stonington and Isle au Haut, midcoast Maine. Sand and mud bottom.
- Sheltered NE, E, SW, S, SE
- 442AnchorageUnited States
Chisam Creek
3.6Tidal creek off the Poquoson River near Seaford, Virginia, on the lower Chesapeake Bay.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, E, SW, S, SE
443AnchorageUnited StatesDyckman Marina
3.6Small marina at the west end of Dyckman Street, on the Hudson River in the Inwood neighbourhood of Manhattan, New York, opposite the New Jersey Palisades.
- Sheltered NW, NE, W, E, SW, SE
- 444AnchorageUnited States
Vero Beach anchorage
3.6Free anchorage in the Indian River Lagoon at Vero Beach, on Florida's east coast. Sand and mud bottom, sheltered from every direction, fresh water available ashore.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, E, SW, S, SE
- 445AnchoragePuerto Rico
Playa Doña Lala
3.6Anchorage off Playa Doña Lala at Rincón, on the west coast of Puerto Rico, 0.6 NM north of Playa Córcega.
- Sheltered NE, E, SE
446AnchorageUnited StatesSouth Boston Yacht Club
3.6Yacht club mooring field in Dorchester Bay, off South Boston, Massachusetts, inside the inner harbour.
- Sheltered NW, N, W, SW
- 447AnchorageUnited States
Whitestone Rock
3.6Anchorage near Whitestone Rock, an islet off the north-west coast of Baranof Island, south-east Alaska.
- Sheltered NE, E, S, SE
448AnchorageUnited StatesBeaufort SC downtown
3.6Anchorage off downtown Beaufort on the Beaufort River, South Carolina, beside the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway around ICW Mile 536.
- Sheltered NW, W, SW
- 449AnchoragePuerto Rico
Bahía Sucia
3.6Anchorage in Bahía Sucia, the bay beside the Los Morrillos lighthouse at the south-west tip of Puerto Rico, 0.9 NM east of Bahía Salinas.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, E
- 450AnchorageUnited States
Davis Cove
3.6Small cove anchorage on the western side of Penobscot Bay, Maine. Mud bottom with good holding.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, E, SE