Kids
Story hours for wet Tuesdays, lifeguarded beaches, farm animals and ice cream for children under twelve.
- Over twelve? Teens is the other page
- Safety: ticks, rip currents, lifeguard hours
- What is on this week
- Bringing the dog too? Beach rules by town
- Playgrounds
- Summer camps
- Story hour
- Indoor sport and swim
- Beaches
- Meet the animals
- Pick your own
- Ice cream
- Movies
- Mini golf and arcade
- Toy and kids' shops
16 places
Montauk · 16
Playgrounds
Hither Hills State Park Playground
Montauk
New York State park. A day-use vehicle fee applies in season - the park record in data/picnic.json carries the schedule.
A playground inside the state park, beside the playing fields and the oceanfront campground.
Playgrounds
Lions Field (Henry "Hank" Zebrowski Memorial Park)
Montauk
restrooms. A Town of East Hampton park, open to all. No alcohol or tobacco; dogs under control and cleaned up after; use at your own risk.
A playground and a sledding hill on the Edgemere/Erie corner, with two 60-foot baseball diamonds beside them.
Playgrounds
Montauk Playhouse Playground
Montauk
restrooms. A Town of East Hampton community facility. The town's page publishes no hours for the site.
A playground outside the Playhouse, with the gymnasium and restrooms indoors beside it.
Summer camps
Project MOST Montauk Summer Camp
Montauk
Ages: 2.5 to 4 years old for the summer camp; the year-round child care centre at the same address takes 6 weeks to 5 years · 1 June - 30 September 2026, the longest season of any camp in the guide. · Not published online. Registration and fees are handled through the centre's own registration page. · Still running this summer.
The only summer programme out here that will take a two-and-a-half-year-old, and it runs a month either side of everything else — through September, when every other camp has closed and school has not started for the under-fives. It sits inside the Montauk Playhouse, so the pool and the playground are on the same site.
Indoor sport and swim
Montauk Playhouse Community Center
Montauk · Works in the rain
Open seven days a week; open gym hours vary
"A high school regulation-sized gymnasium open seven days a week, offering open gym hours, programming and play—including yoga, basketball, pickleball, and volleyball." Run by the Town of East Hampton Recreation Department inside the Playhouse. The Playhouse does not publish the open-gym timetable online.
Indoor sport and swim
Sarah and Maurice Iudicone Aquatic Center
Montauk · Works in the rain
Lap swim offered; schedule not published online
"A 25-yard lap pool and a warm-water teaching and leisure pool", both indoors and accessible, operated inside the Playhouse by Imagine Swimming — "Lessons, lap swim, family swim, and aqua aerobics". Schedule and rates come from Imagine Swimming, (212) 253-9650, not the Playhouse.
Beaches
Ditch Plains Beach
Montauk
Has lifeguards 9am-5pm (in season) and restrooms.
Yes — the one non-negotiable Montauk stop, even if you just sit on the rocks and watch longboarders for an hour.
Beaches
Hither Hills State Park Beach
Montauk
Has lifeguards 10am-6pm (late may-mid sep) and restrooms.
Yes - the day-fee loophole: no sticker needed, just $10 a car, and you get a full-service ocean beach.
Beaches
South Edison Street Beach
Montauk
Has lifeguards 9am-5pm memorial day-labor day.
Yes - the walk-to beach if you are staying in downtown Montauk; everything else is a drive.