Best anchorages and harbours in United States

Carolina Beach

Anchorage off the beach of Carolina, east of San Juan on the Atlantic coast of Puerto Rico, 3.1 NM east of Ocean Park.

• Sheltered NE, E, SW, S, SE

M. James Gleason Memorial Boat Ramp

Public boat ramp on the Oregon side of the Columbia River, at 4325 NE Marine Drive in Portland, across from Portland International Airport.

Long Bay

Bay with a beach on the south side of the East End of St. John, near Hansen Bay at the mouth of Coral Bay.

• Sheltered N, NE, E, SE

Cape Ann Marina

Year-round marina on the Annisquam River just inside Gloucester harbour, on the north shore of Massachusetts, about 40 miles north of Boston.

Icacos Beach

Anchorage off the western beach of Cayo Icacos, in La Cordillera Reef Natural Reserve off Fajardo, 0.4 NM from the main Icacos anchorage.

• Sheltered N, NE, E, SE

McKinley Marina slip L-20

Milwaukee County's only public lakefront marina, on the Lake Michigan shore of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Slip L-20 is one berth within the marina.

Bahía Salinas, Cabo Rojo

Anchorage in Bahía Salinas at the south-west tip of Puerto Rico, off the Cabo Rojo salt flats and close to the Los Morrillos lighthouse.

• Sheltered N, NE, E, SE

Wrightsville Beach

Anchorage in Banks Channel off Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, between the barrier island and the mainland, on a sand bottom.

Flamingo

Everglades National Park's only marina, at the southern tip of mainland Florida where Florida Bay meets the freshwater backcountry, administratively in Homestead.

James Parks Marine

Marina on Tangier Island, a watermen's community in the Chesapeake Bay roughly 12 miles offshore in Virginia.

Kailua Bay

Open roadstead off Kailua-Kona, on the west coast of the island of Hawaii, with a sand bottom.

• Sheltered NW, N, NE, E

Statter Harbor

Transient harbour in Auke Bay, 12 miles by road north of downtown Juneau, used by fishing boats, charters and visiting yachts in south-east Alaska.

Englewood

Anchorage in Lemon Bay near Englewood, Florida, in the southern reach of the bay close to Stump Pass.

• Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, E, SW, S, SE

Isla Piñeros

Anchorage off Isla Piñeros, an island in front of Ceiba on the east coast of Puerto Rico, 2.8 NM south of Puerto del Rey.

• Sheltered NE, E, SE

Joshua Cove

Cove on the Guilford shore of Long Island Sound, Connecticut, just north of the Sachem's Head peninsula, with a bottom of rock and mud.

• Sheltered NW, N, NE

Oyster Bay Cove

Anchorage in Oyster Bay Harbor on the north shore of Long Island, New York, on the Oyster Bay Cove side east of the mooring fleet, on a mud bottom.

• Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, E, SW, S, SE

Hobe Sound R38

Anchorage off red daymark 38 on the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway at Hobe Sound, in Martin County on the Florida Treasure Coast.

• Sheltered NW, W, SW

Makah Marina

Tribal marina at Neah Bay on the Makah Reservation, built in 1997. 200 slips from 9 to 21 metres with side-tie space for vessels over 30 metres, near the entrance to the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

West Tiger Point Anchorage

Anchorage on the west side of the Intracoastal channel at the north end of Amelia Island, Fernandina Beach, Florida.

• Sheltered NW, W, SW, S, SE

Westland Boatyard & Marina

Working boatyard and marina on the Indian River at Titusville, Florida, along the Intracoastal Waterway.

Doctors Lake Marina

Full-service marina on Doctors Lake near Orange Park, off the St Johns River south of Jacksonville, in Florida.

Monty's Bay Marina

Marina in a bay on the New York shore of Lake Champlain at West Chazy, about 8 miles north of Plattsburgh, with a sand bottom.

• Sheltered S

Mother Norton Shoal

Anchorage in Winyah Bay, the brackish estuary at Georgetown, South Carolina, where the Waccamaw, Pee Dee, Black and Sampit rivers meet the sea.

• Sheltered NE, W, SW

Slaughter Creek Marina

Marina on Slaughter Creek off the Little Choptank River, 4 miles from the main Chesapeake Bay, at Taylors Island, Maryland. Formerly Taylors Island Marina.

West Of Fort

Anchorage in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, west of Fort Sumter, with a sand bottom and shelter from SW through SE winds.

• Sheltered SW, S, SE

Cabrillo Way Marina

Large public marina on the West Channel of Los Angeles Harbor, in San Pedro, California.

Vero Beach Anchorage

Anchorage in the Indian River Lagoon at Vero Beach, Florida, behind Fritz Island just south of the city mooring field.

• Sheltered W

Homer Gudelsky

Anchorage in Sinepuxent Bay off West Ocean City, Maryland, on a sand bottom just inside the Ocean City Inlet.

• Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, E, SW, S, SE

Tolomato River anchorage

Anchorage on the Tolomato River north of the St Augustine Inlet, Florida, near ICW Mile 776. Mud bottom, sheltered from N through E winds.

• Sheltered N, NE, E

Bay Pines

Anchorage on the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway off Madeira Beach, on Florida's Pinellas County coast.

• Sheltered N, NE, E, S, SE