The Race
USA /
New York /
Fishers Island /
World
/ USA
/ New York
/ Fishers Island
World / United States / Connecticut
water, invisible

The Race is the eastern entrance to Long Island Sound, so named because of the strength of its currents. It's a 2- to 4-mile opening between Fisher's Island and Plum Island, depending on how you measure. Its most navigable portion, the north channel between Valiant Rock and Fisher's Island, is only 1½-miles wide. It is popular with fishermen. Thousands of vessels including hundreds of major commercial ships, thousands of barges and tugs, fishing vessels and an untold number of recreational boats travel through it each year.
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 41°13'32"N 72°4'43"W
- Lake Montauk 20 km
- Gardiners Bay 23 km
- Three Mile Harbor 24 km
- Little Peconic Bay 38 km
- Lake Saltonstall 66 km
- MDC West Hartford & Bloomfield Reservoirs 90 km
- Enfield Canal 96 km
- Nepaug Reservoir 100 km
- Barkhamsted Reservoir 116 km
- Long Island Sound 154 km
- Fort Michie / Great Gull Island 4.3 km
- Plum Island Animal Disease Center 11 km
- Plum Island 11 km
- Lab 101 12 km
- Orient Point County Park 15 km
- Gardiner's Island 17 km
- Southold, New York 19 km
- Orient Beach State Park 19 km
- Orient, New York 19 km
- Town of East Hampton 23 km