Long Island · Summer 2026

What should we do
this Weekend?

A family almanac for Nassau and Suffolk. LI Playbook is a free directory of 1,182 verified parks, camps, leagues, and kids’ activities, plus a family-events calendar that refreshes every week. Real places, real hours, kid-fit at a glance. Pick an age, find something in under a minute.

Pick an age.

We'll show what fits.

Or jump to the map and browse by neighborhood.
Happening soon

What's happening, when.

Festival
Free
St. Brigid's/Our Lady of Hope Parking Field
104th Annual Feast of the Assumption

Aug 12–Aug 16 (Annual, every August)

Free Event Admission

Festival
Paid
Long Island Maritime Museum
Seafood Festival 2026

Aug 21–Aug 22 (Annual)

General Admission: $10.00 per person (advance tickets online via Eventbrite with processing fee); Children under 12: Free. Cash only at gate.

Other
Lido Beach Town Park - 630 Lido Boulevard Lido Beach NY 11561
Beach Cleanup

Sun Aug 23 · 9:00 am–12:00 pm

Leagues & Programs

Find your kid’s next team.

Town leagues, classes, and programs across Long Island.

All leagues
By town

Your town, probably.

To do

Summer '26
Hit the beach
Visit a splash pad
Go strawberry picking
Catch an outdoor movie
Visit Splish Splash

the summer list

A family tradition

The summer
bucket list.

5 hand-picked things to do before the season turns: farm stands, apple picking, first-warm-day playground runs.

Track your family's progress, cross things off, share a card when you finish the list.

Open the checklist
Open the checklist

The full summer almanac

Good to know

Long Island family fun, answered

What is there to do with kids on Long Island?

Long Island has 1,182 verified parks and playgrounds, kids' activities, youth leagues, and summer camps across Nassau and Suffolk, from splash pads and children's museums to farms, bowling, and trampoline parks. Pick an age or a town and this directory narrows to what fits, and a weekly events calendar covers what is happening this weekend.

Is LI Playbook free?

Yes. LI Playbook is completely free, with no ads and no sponsored placement. Venues cannot pay to be listed or to rank higher, so listings are ordered by fit for families rather than by who paid. There is also a free weekly email with the best upcoming events.

How are listings verified?

Every park gets checked against satellite photos before it goes up, with Street View pulled up for the ambiguous ones. It is a human and AI system: AI vision models do the looking, and a real person triages what gets flagged and spot-checks by hand. Addresses are geocoded to a street-level location, and listing websites are re-checked in a real browser on a rolling schedule, so dead links get the listing pulled instead of left to rot. More than 1,700 listings have gone through that pipeline and about 400 were removed, which is the point.

LI · Sum '26
Plan something bigger

Build a family weekend.

Pick two or three places, we'll line up drive times, weather, and a shareable itinerary you can text to anyone.

Plan my weekend
Plan my weekend