Lake Worth to New York is the original snowbird move, just pointed north — the same corridor that carries seasonal residents down to the Palm Beaches every fall, run in the other direction. It is one of the most-requested long hauls on our board, and we never hand it off: our crew loads in South Florida and our crew unloads in the five boroughs or the suburbs.
Leaving Florida for good? Sawgrass Moving keeps the whole haul on one truck with one crew, the price locked in writing before we load.
The drive: the full I-95 run to the metro
We load in Lake Worth and head up I-95 the whole way — the Carolinas, Virginia, the Mid-Atlantic, and into the New York metro, about 1,280 miles. It is a two-to-three-day haul, and we load at dawn to clear South Florida’s summer heat and storms before the long climb up the coast.
Who runs this route
- Snowbirds and retirees reversing their winter migration for family or work.
- Professionals taking finance, media, and tech roles back in the city.
- Families moving north to be near parents, kids, and grandkids.
- South Floridians keeping a foothold in both metros and shifting their base.
What you are heading into
New York means four hard seasons — real winters with snow and ice, a sharp contrast to Lake Worth’s warm, dry high season. The building reality is the bigger change: walk-up apartments, narrow streets, parking permits, shuttle transfers, and strict freight-elevator and COI rules in the towers. That high-rise discipline is the same muscle we use on Boca and Intracoastal oceanfront condos every week.
How the flat rate survives the big city
We inventory the home, pin down the New York building’s move-in window and insurance requirements, and quote one binding number under our interstate authority. We take $115 to reserve the date, and that sum is credited to your bill. Released-value protection is $0.60 per pound standard, with full-value and up to $1,000,000 cargo coverage per shipment optional.
For a real New York number, Get my free moving quote and we will build it from your inventory.
How this run goes · ~1280 mi
One crew and one truck handle the whole haul north out of Lake Worth, GPS-tracked door to door on one binding flat rate. The delivery day we promise is the delivery day we keep — your load passes through no other hands, and the figure written down is the figure you settle.