Clubhouse Tours: Family Program, $4 per person upon arrival
Tour the Main House of the former South Side Sportsman's Club, a private fishing retreat that once hosted wealthy anglers in the early 1900s. Guides walk you through the restored rooms and share stories about the club's heyday. Entry is $4 per person at arrival, and the tour lasts about 45 minutes.
Tour the Main House of the former South Side Sportsman’s Club, a private fishing retreat that once hosted wealthy anglers in the early 1900s. Guides walk you through the restored rooms and share stories about the club’s heyday. Entry is $4 per person at arrival, and the tour lasts about 45 minutes.
Other Family events
Editor's Pick Urban Ecology: Adult Program, $4 per person upon arrival
This adult-focused program covers how raccoons, hawks, and other wildlife adapt to suburban spaces, plus practical ways to make your yard more wildlife-friendly. It's $4 per person at the door and runs about 90 minutes at the park's main office building.
- When
- Where
- Nissequogue River State Park Main Office (Charles & Helen Reichert Administration Building), Kings Park
Editor's Pick Historic Cemetery Restoration - Ketcham Cemetery in Melville
Volunteers are cleaning and restoring Revolutionary War grave sites at Ketcham Cemetery, one of the older burial grounds in Melville. Bring work gloves and expect a few hours of clearing brush, resetting stones, and preserving markers from the 1700s. Free to participate, and the cemetery sits right on Old Country Road with easy parking.
- When
- Where
- Ketcham Cemetery, Melville
Editor's Pick Old Westbury Gardens — Family Picnic Sundays
Old Westbury Gardens' summer Sunday picnic concerts on the West Pond lawn. Family-pricing ($15 adult, $10 ages 4-15), classical + swing acts rotating weekly, abundant lawn space for blankets, the Children's Garden + maze 3 minutes from the music. The LI family Sunday-afternoon default.
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- Where
- Old Westbury Gardens, Old Westbury
- Price
- See ticket page
Read before you go
- town spotlight Sayville Village: A Local's Guide for 2026 Sayville Village — the South Shore walkable downtown that locals refuse to gentrify, with restored 19th-century Main Street, the Sayville Cab Company since 1958, the Sayville Restaurant Group anchors (Casa Luis, Cull House), the Saturday Farmers Market on Foster Avenue, the Fire Island ferry terminal at the harbor, and an annual event calendar that runs from Memorial Weekend Classic Car Show through Holiday Stroll. Walking distance from the LIRR. The slow-paced South Shore village that works.
- town spotlight Northport Village: A Local's Guide for 2026 Northport Village — the North Shore harbor village with restored 19th-century Main Street, the working harbor + town park, the Engeman Theater, the Saturday farmers market, and the John W. Engeman Theatre + Northport Yacht Club rituals that anchor the village's calendar. Walking distance from the LIRR. The North Shore family Saturday at its best.
- seasonal What We're Tracking: The Long Island Summer 2026 Calendar Takes Shape The Editors' Memorial Weekend reset on what we're tracking for Long Island summer 2026. Programming announcements, venue updates, the new restaurants worth a drive, the festivals that bumped their dates, and the East End rhythm shifts. Updated weekly through Labor Day.