Best anchorages and harbours in United States
3702 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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- 661AnchoragePuerto Rico
Crash Boat Beach
3.7Anchorage off Crash Boat Beach, Aguadilla, on the north-west corner of Puerto Rico, 1.9 NM north of Aguadilla town.
- Sheltered NE
- 662AnchorageUnited States
Dutch Harbor
3.7Harbour on the west side of Conanicut Island at Jamestown, Rhode Island, between the island and Dutch Island in the West Passage of Narragansett Bay.
- Sheltered N, NE, W, E, S, SE
- 663AnchorageUnited States
Kodiak Bay
3.7Remote anchorage near Larsen Harbour on the south coast of Kodiak Island, Alaska, with sand, mud and weed holding.
- Sheltered NE, E, SW, S, SE
- 664AnchorageU.S. Virgin Islands
Christmas Cove
3.7Cove on the west side of Great St. James, off the east end of St. Thomas, within the St. Thomas East End Reserves, with a mooring field and the floating Pizza Pi boat.
- Sheltered N, NE, E, S, SE
- 665AnchorageUnited States
Duncan Bay
3.7Sheltered bay on Lake Huron about 2 miles east of Cheboygan, Michigan, within the Straits of Mackinac.
- Sheltered W, E, SW, S, SE
666AnchorageUnited StatesOlowalu
3.7Anchorage off Olowalu on the west coast of Maui, Hawaii, about 4 nm south of Lahaina. Sand and rock bottom, sheltered from NW through E.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, E
- 667AnchorageUnited States
Bloody point
3.6Anchorage in the North Edisto River, between Kiawah and Seabrook Islands in South Carolina. Mud bottom, sheltered from every direction.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, E, SW, S, SE
668AnchorageUnited StatesPort Clyde Harbour
3.6Working harbour and anchorage at the tip of the St George peninsula, midcoast Maine, sheltered behind Hupper Island. Mud bottom.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, E, SW, SE
- 669AnchorageU.S. Virgin Islands
Sandy Bay
3.6Bay with a sand beach on the north side of the West End of St. Thomas.
- Sheltered W, E, SW, S, SE
- 670AnchorageUnited 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
- 671AnchorageUnited 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
- 672AnchorageUnited 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
- 673HarbourTampa, United States
Westshore Yacht Club Marina
3.6Gated members' marina on Old Tampa Bay, on the south side of Tampa, with about 175 wet berths for vessels from 40 to over 130 feet.
- 674AnchorageUnited 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
- 675AnchorageUnited 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
- 676AnchorageUnited 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
- 677AnchorageUnited 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
678HarbourPonce Inlet, United StatesSea Love Boatyard & Marina
3.6Working boatyard and marina on the south side of Ponce Inlet, at 4877 Front Street on the Halifax River.
679AnchorageUnited StatesWaikiki
3.6Open roadstead off Waikiki Beach on the south shore of Oahu, Honolulu, Hawaii.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE
680AnchorageUnited 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
681AnchorageUnited 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
682HarbourUnited StatesRock & Dock Marina
3.6Transient marina of 53 berths in North Coast Harbor, the inner harbour of downtown Cleveland on Lake Erie.
683AnchorageUnited 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
- 684AnchorageU.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
- 685HarbourWashington, United States
James Creek Marina
3.6Marina at the confluence of the Potomac, the Anacostia and the Washington Channel, east of Fort McNair in Washington, DC. 297 berths from 16 to over 160 feet.
- 686AnchoragePuerto 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
687AnchorageUnited 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
- 688AnchorageU.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
- 689AnchorageUnited 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
- 690HarbourChesapeake Beach, United States
Rod N Reel Marina
3.6Resort marina at Chesapeake Beach on the western shore of Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, 25 nm south of Annapolis.
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Penobscot Bay anchorages, Maine, Mount Desert Island and Somes Sound, Casco Bay and the Midcoast: Portland to Port Clyde, Boston Harbor and its islands: Charlestown to Scituate, North Shore and Portsmouth: Marblehead to the Isles of Shoals, Elizabeth Islands: Cuttyhunk, Tarpaulin Cove and Hadley Harbor, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket harbours, Cape Cod harbours: Provincetown to Woods Hole, Buzzards Bay harbours: Onset, Marion, New Bedford and Padanaram, Narragansett Bay and Block Island: Newport, Jamestown and Great Salt Pond, Peconic Bays: Shelter Island, Greenport and Sag Harbor, Fishers Island, Mystic and Stonington, Long Island Sound harbours: Connecticut and the North Shore, New York Harbor: marinas and the Statue of Liberty anchorage, Hudson River marinas and anchorages, Manhattan to Albany, New Jersey shore: Barnegat Bay, Atlantic City and Cape May, Upper Chesapeake Bay: Annapolis, Rock Hall and the northern creeks, Eastern Shore: St. Michaels, Oxford and the Choptank, Lower Chesapeake: Solomons, Deltaville and Norfolk, Charleston, Beaufort and the Lowcountry, Georgia coast: Savannah to Cumberland Island, North Carolina: Beaufort, Oriental and Cape Lookout, North Carolina sounds: Dismal Swamp, Albemarle and Roanoke Island, Intracoastal Waterway stops: Norfolk to Beaufort, South Carolina, Stopover marinas of Florida's east coast, Fernandina to Key West, St. Augustine and north-east Florida, Space Coast and Indian River Lagoon: Ponce Inlet to Stuart, Biscayne Bay and Miami anchorages, Palm Beach to Fort Lauderdale along the Intracoastal, Florida Keys anchorages, Key Largo to Key West, Key West backcountry and the Marquesas, Pine Island Sound: Cayo Costa, Sanibel and Boca Grande, Sarasota and Tampa Bay harbours and anchorages, Florida Panhandle: Pensacola to Carrabelle, Mobile Bay and Mississippi Sound: Orange Beach to Bay St. Louis, Texas coast: Galveston Bay to Corpus Christi, Culebra and Vieques: Spanish Virgin Islands anchorages, Puerto Rico's south coast: Fajardo to Boquerón, St. John: Virgin Islands National Park moorings, St. Thomas and St. Croix harbours and anchorages, Lake Superior: the Apostle Islands, Duluth and Isle Royale, Lake Michigan: the northern harbours, Leland to Mackinac, Door County: the harbours of the Wisconsin peninsula, Lake Huron: Mackinac Island, Les Cheneaux and Drummond Island, Lake Erie islands: Put-in-Bay and Kelleys Island, Thousand Islands: Cape Vincent to Ogdensburg, Lake Ontario south shore: Niagara to Sackets Harbor, Lake Champlain anchorages, Rouses Point to Westport, Catalina Island coves and moorings, Channel Islands national park anchorages, San Diego to Santa Barbara: the coastal stopovers, Central California: Half Moon Bay to Port San Luis, San Francisco Bay anchorages and marinas, San Juan Islands anchorages and marine parks, Puget Sound: Blake Island, Port Townsend and Poulsbo, Oregon coast and Columbia River: the bar harbours, Southeast Alaska: Inside Passage anchorages, Prince William Sound and Kenai Fjords anchorages, Hawaiian Islands harbours and anchorages, Hilo to Hanalei.