Best anchorages and harbours in United States
580 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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- 181AnchorageUnited States
Reedy Island
4.5Anchorage in the Delaware River off Reedy Island, near Port Penn, Delaware, about 4.3 miles south of the C&D Canal entrance, on a mud bottom.
- Sheltered NW, NE, W, E, SW, SE
- 182AnchorageUnited States
Seal Ledge
4.5Anchorage near Seal Ledge on the south-western side of Rockland Harbour, Maine. Mud bottom, sheltered.
- Sheltered NW, N, W, SW, S, SE
- 183AnchorageUnited States
Sterling Creek
4.5Quiet creek off the Severn River, one of the four rivers feeding Mobjack Bay on the western shore of Chesapeake Bay, Virginia.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, E
- 184AnchorageUnited States
Blackbeard Creek
4.5Anchorage on Blackbeard Creek between Sapelo and Blackbeard islands on the Georgia coast, mud bottom.
- Sheltered E, SE, S, SW
185AnchorageUnited StatesSag Harbor Bay
4.5Anchorage off the village of Sag Harbor, on Shelter Island Sound at the eastern end of Long Island, New York.
- Sheltered E, SE, S, SW, W, NW
- 186AnchorageUnited States
Truman Beach
4.5Anchorage off Key West, Florida, near Wisteria Island, with a sand bottom and shelter from N through NE winds.
- Sheltered N, NE
- 187AnchorageUnited States
Lake Sylvia
4.5Circular basin off the Intracoastal Waterway in Fort Lauderdale, the most used overnight anchorage in the area.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, E, SW, S, SE
- 188AnchorageUnited States
Malletts Bay Anchorage
4.5Anchorage on Lake Champlain off Burlington, Vermont, about 4 nautical miles north of Burlington Harbor Marina.
- Sheltered SE, S, SW
189AnchorageUnited StatesBoot Key
4.5Harbour on the south side of Marathon in the Florida Keys, the most protected anchorage in the city, set between Sister Creek and the Boot Key Bridge.
- Sheltered N, NE, E, NW
- 190AnchorageUnited States
Jones Island State Park
4.5Jones Island is a small marine state park west of Orcas Island in the San Juan Islands of Washington, with anchorages at its North and South coves.
- Sheltered W, E, SW, S, SE
- 191AnchorageUnited States
Bull Creek
4.4All-round sheltered anchorage on Bull Creek, a branch of the Waccamaw River between Georgetown and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
- Sheltered N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, W, NW
192AnchorageUnited StatesDyes Inlet Anchorage
4.4Anchorage in Dyes Inlet on the Kitsap Peninsula, reached from Port Orchard through the Port Washington Narrows behind Bremerton.
- Sheltered NW, N, W, SW, S
193AnchorageUnited StatesPort of Silverdale
4.4Public waterfront moorage at Old Town Silverdale, on the north shore of Dyes Inlet on the Kitsap Peninsula.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, E, SW, SE
- 194AnchorageUnited States
Great Wicomico River - Sandy Point
4.4Anchorage off Sandy Point on the Great Wicomico River, a tidal tributary on the western shore of Chesapeake Bay in Virginia.
- Sheltered E, SW, S, SE
- 195AnchorageUnited States
Lake Madeline
4.4Anchorage in Offatts Bayou on the north side of Galveston Island, Texas, off West Bay, with a dark mud bottom and shelter from all directions.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, E, SW, S, SE
- 196AnchorageUnited States
Mill Creek
4.4Anchorage in Mill Creek off the Patuxent River at Solomons, Maryland, with mud holding.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, E, SW, S, SE
197AnchorageUnited StatesBlock island
4.4Anchorage in the Great Salt Pond at New Harbor on Block Island, Rhode Island, on a sand bottom. It is one of the busiest harbours in the Northeast.
- Sheltered N, NE, E, SE
- 198AnchorageUnited States
Lukens Anchorage
4.4Open anchorage on the Neuse River near Oriental, North Carolina, with a mud bottom and good holding.
- Sheltered NE, E, SE
- 199AnchorageUnited States
Southwest Branch Back River
4.4Anchorage on the Southwest Branch of the Back River, between Hampton and Poquoson in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia. Mud bottom.
- Sheltered NE, W, E, SW, SE
- 200AnchorageUnited States
Threemile Harbor
4.4Anchorage in Three Mile Harbor at East Hampton, New York, sand bottom, sheltered from the west but exposed to winds from the south-west to north-west.
- Sheltered SW, W, NW
- 201AnchorageUnited States
Hunts Cove
4.4Anchorage off the Piankatank River on Virginia's Middle Peninsula, with a mud bottom and good shelter from the northern sector.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, E, SW
202AnchorageUnited StatesCuttyhunk Pond
4.4Enclosed pond at the western end of Cuttyhunk Island, the outermost of the Elizabeth Islands between Buzzards Bay and Vineyard Sound, Massachusetts.
- Sheltered N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, W, NW
203AnchorageUnited StatesNewport Bay
4.4Mooring and anchorage area in Newport Harbor, Rhode Island, around Goat Island near the entrance from Narragansett Bay.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, E
204AnchorageUnited StatesCreek Sanctuary Solomon's
4.4Anchorage in the creeks behind Solomons, off the Patuxent River in Maryland, with a mud bottom and good shelter from the north through to the south-east.
- Sheltered N, NE, E, S, SE
- 205AnchorageUnited States
Back Landing
4.4Mud-bottom anchorage off the Pungo River near Belhaven, North Carolina, sheltered from the NW, N and W.
- Sheltered NW, N, W
206AnchorageUnited StatesMariners Basin
4.4Anchorage in the south-west corner of Mission Bay, San Diego, with a sand and mud bottom and protection on every side.
- Sheltered N, NE, W, E, SW, S, SE
207AnchorageUnited StatesCape lookout
4.3Large natural anchorage inside Cape Lookout Bight, at the southern end of Cape Lookout National Seashore on the North Carolina Outer Banks.
- Sheltered NE, W, E, SW, S, SE
- 208AnchorageUnited States
Lewis bay
4.3Anchorage off Lewes, Delaware, near the Delaware Bay entrance to the Lewes and Rehoboth Canal, on a mud bottom.
- Sheltered E, S, SE
209AnchorageUnited StatesMoonstone Cove
4.3Anchorage and mooring cove on the north-east shore of Catalina Island, around 20 nm south of Los Angeles Harbour, with a sand bottom.
- Sheltered NW, N, W, SW
210AnchorageUnited Stateswrightsville channel
4.3Anchorage in the channel off Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, beside the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway.
- Sheltered NW, N, NE, W, E, SW, S, SE