Family Day Trips and Weekend Getaways for Long Island

There are 52 weekends a year, that's more than four-dozen opportunities to take a mini-vacation from Long Island.

Whether you want to enjoy the great outdoors with a hike near Long Island or bike ride, relax at a regional resort in New York, run around an amusement park, cool off at a water park, or hit the slopes, there are seemingly endless opportunities for fun on Long Island and just a quick weekend getaway beyond.