Fire Island National Seashore

The purpose of Fire Island National Seashore is to conserve, preserve, and protect Fire Island’s larger landscape including its relatively undeveloped beaches, dunes, and other natural features and processes, and its marine environment; to conserve, preserve, and protect the historic structures, cultural landscapes, museum collections, and archeological resources associated with the Seashore including the Fire Island Light Station and the William Floyd Estate; and to preserve the primitive and natural character of the Otis Pike Fire Island High Dune Wilderness and protect its wilderness character.

The National Park Service is committed to preserving Fire Island National Seashore's natural and cultural resources, its values of maritime and American history, barrier island dynamics and ecology, biodiversity, museum collection, and wilderness. The National Park Service is committed to providing access, a positive visitor experience, and recreational and educational opportunities to Fire Island National Seashore visitors in this natural and cultural setting close to densely populated urban and suburban areas.

While maintaining and exemplifying the policies of the National Park Service, Fire Island will work collaboratively with local partners and constituents to achieve excellence in all we do and create a shared stewardship philosophy for one of the nation's national treasures.