Best anchorages and harbours in United States

Indian Rock

Open anchorage off Santa Catalina Island, California, on a sand bottom. It lies roughly 19 nautical miles south-west of San Pedro.

• Sheltered S, SW, W

Wrangell Airport

Anchorage off the Wrangell Airport shore on the east side of Wrangell Island, along Zimovia Strait in South-East Alaska.

• Sheltered SW, S, SE

Catalina Harbor

Mooring off the West End of Santa Catalina Island, California, near Howland's Landing, set on a sand bottom with all-round shelter.

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

Ratz Harbor

Bay indenting the north-east coast of Prince of Wales Island on the west side of Clarence Strait, Southeast Alaska.

• Sheltered W, E, SW, S, SE

Shipyard Marina

Marina on the Hoboken waterfront of the Hudson River, facing the Manhattan skyline across the water.

Big Island

Anchorage near the mouth of the Alligator River on the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, coastal North Carolina.

• Sheltered W, SW, S, SE

Salt Ponds Marina Resort

Large marina at the Salt Ponds inlet in Hampton, Virginia, with direct access to Chesapeake Bay.

Dolphin Marina

Family-run marina at the tip of Basin Point in South Harpswell, in the heart of Casco Bay, Maine.

Safe Harbor New England Boatworks

Boatyard and marina at the north end of Aquidneck Island, in Portsmouth on the East Passage of Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island.

Cable marine west

Full-service boatyard on the New River, Fort Lauderdale, on the south bank just west of the Andrews Avenue bridge.

West Neck Harbor

Sheltered anchorage off the south-west shore of Shelter Island, in the Peconic estuary of eastern Long Island, New York.

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

Kiptopeke

Anchorage at Kiptopeke on the lower Eastern Shore of Virginia, near Cape Charles, mud bottom, sheltered behind a line of sunken concrete ships.

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

Stamford Harbour

Outer harbour anchorage at Stamford on the Connecticut shore of Long Island Sound, about 33 miles east of New York.

• Sheltered NW, N, NE, E

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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