Fire Island National Seashore preserves 26 miles of Fire Island, a narrow barrier island off Long Island’s south shore, protecting beaches, dunes, wetlands, maritime forest, bayshore habitat, and the William Floyd House at Mastic Beach. Established in 1964, it is notable for combining protected shoreline with 17 private communities and for its low-impact access by bridges, ferries, and boats, with no public roads inside the seashore. Its best-known features include Fire Island Light, Sailor’s Haven and the Sunken Forest, and the Otis Pike Fire Island High Dune Wilderness, New York State’s only federally designated wilderness, where natural coastal change was highlighted by the Old Inlet breach opened by Hurricane Sandy and later closed naturally.

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