Eastchester Bay and Bronx Car Rentals

Eastchester Bay is a protected body of water between City Island and the mainland Bronx, New York. Technically, it is a sound, not a bay, since it is open to larger bodies of water at both ends. The northern end connects via a narrow channel to Pelham Bay. The Hutchinson River empties into Eastchester Bay near the northern end. The lower portion of the bay opens onto the East River, Little Neck Bay, and Long Island Sound.

In touch with nature

Eastchester Bay is designated an Essential Fish Habitat by the National Marine Fisheries Service. The Eastchester Bay salt marsh is located in Long Island Sound in the Bronx (NYC). Salt marsh habitat makes up a great deal of Pelham Bay Park's natural areas, nearly 195 acres, making it the largest grouping outside of Jamaica Bay. The Lagoon, a remnant of the original Pelham Bay, and Turtle Cove, an inlet to the south, provide excellent shelter and feeding grounds for migratory birds. This is a great place to check out the nature of the area with your Bronx car rentals when you travel to Eastchester Bay.

Things to do

If you're looking for something to do when you visit Eastchester Bay with your Bronx car rentals you will be able to find many yacht clubs and marinas lining the bay on both sides. This leads to a high level of recreational boating traffic. Traffic is particularly dense on weekends and Wednesday evenings in the summer, when the various clubs run sailboat races. So if you are hoping to beat the crowds with your Bronx car rentals you will want to make sure you avoid those particular days.

Making room for the big boats

When you travel with your Bronx car rentals to Eastchester Bay you may also notice that there is also a high volume of commercial traffic. The bay opens onto the main shipping channel into New York from Long Island Sound. This channel is used by large commercial vessels, high speed ferries, fishing boats, barges under tow, and all manner of vessels restricted in their ability to maneuver. Barge traffic transiting the length of the bay in and out of the Hutchinson River is concentrated into a few hours a day, as is constrained to times of high tide.

Evers Seaplane Base

Eastchester Bay also sees the occasional seaplane, Evers Seaplane Base. Evers Seaplane Base serves New York and Bronx County and is owned by Charles Evers. A distance of 5000 feet is provided for seaplanes to land. The facility is at an elevation of 0 feet at a distance of about 12 miles from New York.

Around the area

You will want to make sure you check out the surrounding areas when you travel with your Bronx car rentals to Eastchester Bay to discover other great city locations. Along the Bronx River, is Bronx Park. Its northern end houses the New York Botanical Gardens, which preserve the last patch of the original hemlock forest that once covered the entire city, and its southern end the Bronx Zoo, the largest urban zoological gardens in the U.S. Farther south is Crotona Park, home to a 3.3 acre lake, 28 species of trees and a large swimming pool. The land for these parks, and many others, was bought by New York City in 1888, while land was still open and inexpensive, in anticipation of future needs and future pressures for development. Some of the acquired land was set aside for the Grand Concourse and Pelham Parkway, the first of a series of boulevards and parkways.

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