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Originally posted by paigowprincess
Like near the Hamptons? That far east? ANywhere near the airports?
(is any festival worth a suimmer trip on the LIE?)
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It's not as far east as the Hamptons, so you won't have to deal with the single lane nightmare that is Route 27 between the end of the LIE and your Hamptons destination.
On an ordinary weekend, the traffic is most hellish on Friday afternoon/evening and Saturday mid-morning; then Sunday afternoon/eve. If you drive very late Fri or very early Sat you ought to be OK. Given the number of expected attendees at the concerts, however, normal rules probably won't apply. You should make a long weekend of it. Don't you have pals with summer shares?
As for airports, you can fly SW Airlines from BWI-Islip for cheap and rent a car. In normal traffic conditions you can get from Islip to Riverhead in 45 mins. or so; if there's no traffic, 1/2 hour. Also, you can avoid the LIE for long stretches b/w Riverhead & Islip if your flight times put you in the midst of heavy traffic.
Your lodging options in Riverhead itself are probably not up to your standards, but you could try to find a cute place to stay on the North Fork, east of Riverhead, and then drive west to get to the concert grounds. There are also plenty of generic Radisson/Marriott Courtyard places along the LIE. I do NOT recommend staying anywhere in or near the Hamptons because that will make your travel to and from the event difficult.
Here's a rather unexciting article from the LI paper:
http://www.newsday.com/entertainment...613apr16.story
Anyway, how'd you do on Open tix?
