Montauk Point is the easternmost extremity of the South Fork of Long Island, and thus also of New York State.

The park contains the Montauk Point Light, which was authorized by the Second Congress, under President George Washington in 1792.

The Amistad case was heard before the Supreme Court of the United States, where John Quincy Adams successfully argued that the slaves had been kidnapped.

Montauk Point State Park features picnic tables, a food concession, playground, fishing, seasonal hunting, and trails for hiking and cross-country skiing.

A memory of this district is related in Lydia Sigourney's poem Montauk Point,[5] published in her Scenes in my Native Land, 1845.