Westhampton Beach

So many seasonal visitors have fallen in love with Westhampton that it has become one of the fastest-growing year-round communities on eastern Long Island. Excellent restaurants, chic shops, a regionally famous performing-arts center, and magnificent ocean beaches are the major draws. Along scenic Dune Road, which you can follow east to the more down-to-earth village of Hampton Bays, extravagant mansions are interspersed with simple beach houses and condominium complexes.