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Chittenango Falls State Park - NPS Listing - Visitors will enjoy the 167 foot waterfall formed from old bedrock. The falls can be viewed from the top, walk the winding trail into the gorge view the falls from the footbridge and return to the top along the small trail on the opposite side of the gorge. Activities include camping, fishing, hiking and picnicking. |
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Clarence Fahnestock State Park - NPS Listing - The main feature of the park is Canopus Beach, a multi-million-dollar facility with a large, sandy beach, a concession stand, showers and toilets, and a picnic area. Other features include: fishing, boating, and bridle trails. Located in Carmel. |
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Clay Pit Ponds State Park - Preserve - Clay Pit Ponds is a 260-acre nature preserve near the southwest shore of Staten Island offering a unique variety of habitats. Horseback riding is permitted with 5 miles of bridal paths. |
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Coles Creek State Park - NPS Listing - wooded and open camp sites on a shelterd bay on Lake St. Lawrence. Ideal for boating and fishing. Also has playground, playing fields and hiking trails. |
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Connetquot River State Park Preserve - NPS Listing - numerous waterfowl and deer, rare nesting birds, including the osprey, and plenty of rare plant species, such as trailing arbutus and pyxie moss in their natural habitats. The preserve also has 50 miles of hiking, horseback riding, cross-country ski and nature trails, as well as fishing on the Connetquot River. |
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Cumberland Bay State Park - NPS Listing - Located in Plattsburg on the north shore of Lake Champlain - a popular day-use area with large natural sand beach and picnic grounds. The park has 200 campsites, a playground and playing fields |
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Darien Lakes State Park - NPS Listing - The park has 158 campsites with heated comfort stations and showers, a sandy beach, playgrounds, fishing for largemouth black bass, hiking and horseback riding trails, picnic areas and a rustic bridge over the lake channel to Picnic Island. In winter, multiple-use trails are open for hiking, cross-country skiing and snowmobiling and a maintained and heated building for outdoor skating. |
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Dean's Cove Boat Launch - A boat launch site in Seneca Falls, including power boats, with wheel-chair accessible fishing access. No other facilities. Empire Passport accepted. |
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Delta Lake State Park - NPS Listing - Features a sandy beach, picnic areas, hiking and nature trails, boat launch, and fishing. Park has 101 tent, trailer or RV camping sites. Winter visitors can cross-country ski, snowshoe or ice fish. Located in Rome. |
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Devil's Hole State Park - NPS Listing - A wildly beautiful walkway leads down from the park along the turbulent Niagara River 300 feet into the wooded gorge and offers an up-close, spectacular view of the gorge's rapids. |
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Dewolf Point State Park - NPS Listing - Fishermen and nature lovers appreciate this small park's rustic beauty and turn-of-the-century gazebo and dockage for boats on the Lake of the Isles in the St. Lawrence River. Also camping and cabin community. Located in Fineview. |
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Earl W. Brydges ArtPark - State Park - NPS Listing - Located in Lewiston. Dedicated to presenting performing and visual arts programs, including Broadway musicals and classical, jazz and pop music concerts, art exhibits, classes, workshops and demonstrations, and tours of the park's geological and historic sites and nature trails. |
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Eel Weir State Park - NPS Listing - Located in Ogdensburg on the Oswegatchie River two miles from Black Lake. Excellent area for bass fishing, canoes and rowboats. Thirty-eight campsites are available, picnic area and pavilion. |
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Evangola State Park - NPS Listing - Located in Irving on Lake Erie - beautiful sand beach, swimming, picnic facilities, baseball and soccer fields, tennis and basketball courts and 80 campsites. |
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Fahnestock Winter Park - NPS Listing - Located in the Fahnestock Memorial State Park in Carmel, the Winter Park has 15 km of machine groomed, tracked and mapped trails for safe cross country skiing and snowshoeing experiences. |
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Fair Haven Beach State Park - NPS Listing - The park is lakefront in upstate New York, with high bluffs above sandy beaches and hilly woodlands. Inland, there is Sterling Pond, surrounded by campsites and cabins. Swimming and fishing are excellent. Rowboats, paddleboats and canoes are for rent and the park has a boat launch and recreation building which is available for rentals. |
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Fillmore Glen State Park - NPS Listing - Located in Moravia, this park is dense woods along a narrow gorge. Hiking trails offer spectacular views, unique geological formations, including five waterfalls, and a botanically rich glen. The park has 60 campsites, a stream-fed swimming pool and fishing in the Owasco Lake inlet. In winter, hiking, cross-country skiing and snowmobiling are permitted on unplowed roads. |
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Fort Niagara State Park - NPS Listing - Youngstown has two boat launches providing access to the Lower Niagara River and Lake Ontario, woodland hiking trails, swimming pools, waterslide, a view of Lake Ontario, picnic grounds, playgrounds, tennis courts, water fowl hunting and 18 soccer fields. In winter, visitors can cross-country ski, snowshoe, and sled. Adjacent to Old Fort Niagara State Historic Site. |
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Four Mile Creek State Park - NPS Listing - Located in Youngstown - has 266 campsites and hiking trails along densely-wooded bluffs and offers play areas and freshwater fishing. The marsh at the mouth of Four Mile Creek is home to many varieties of fauna, such as great blue herons, and flora, such as white trillium and greenbrier. |
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Franklin D. Roosevelt State Park - NPS Listing - This State Park's spacious picnic areas accommodate hundreds of people who visit the park daily. People of all ages also enjoy the park's oasis of blue water amid the green of the countryside. Swimming is provided in a mammoth pool that will accommodate several thousand people at one time. Mohansic Lake and Crom Pond provide excellent fishing and boating. Rowboat rentals are available in season and privately owned boats may be launched with a purchased at the park office. |
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Gilbert Lake State Park - NPS Listing - Park offers a lake and three ponds lie in wooded, hilly terrain in the foothills of the Catskills. There are cabins and campsites and more than 12 miles of interconnecting trails for hikers, skiers, snowmobilers and snowshoers. Features include: a frisbee golf course, swimming, boating, and fishing. |
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Glimmerglass State Park - NPS Listing - Located eight miles outside the village of Cooperstown, overlooking Otsego Lake, is the "Glimmerglass" of James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales. |
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Golden Hill State Park - NPS Listing - The park's campsites and boat launch attract anglers interested in the excellent fishing on Lake Ontario. The park also has a historical Thirty Mile Point Lighthouse, which invites visitors to take self-guided tours. Playing fields, frisbee golf and shoreline hiking are popular activities. In winter, visitors can snowshoe and cross-country ski. Located in Barker. |
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Governor Alfred E. Smith/Sunken Meadow State Park - NPS Listing - Sunken Meadow State Park offers swimming in Long Island Sound; hiking six miles of trails, including the northern starting point of the Suffolk County Greenbelt Trail; biking, horseback riding picnicking, fishing and cross-country skiing. In addition, the park has three 9-hole golf courses, a driving range and putting green. |
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The History of the New York State Canal System - Read about how Governor DeWitt Clinton of New York convinced the state legislature to authorize $7 million for construction of a canal 363 miles long, 40 feet wide and four feet deep in 1817 allowing trade to funnel down the Hudson to New York City. |
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Hudson River History Tour - The Hudson Valley Virtual History Tour. Travel through time as you explore the Hudson River and Hudson Valley. You'll be connected to photos, museums and stories about the celebrated history of this region of New York. |
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Montauk Lighthouse, New York - Welcome to the Montauk Point Lighthouse, the oldest lighthouse in New York State. The Lighthouse was authorized under President George Washington in 1792. Online gift shop, pictures, videos, and events calendar. |
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New York State Memorial - National Park Service - This 43 foot tall granite memorial was dedicated on Oct 17, 1917, on the occasion of the National Memorial Reunion and Peace Jubilee and commemorates the 49th, 51st, and 46th infantry and the 2nd New York Light Battery L. |
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Niagara Falls State Park - Discover the majesty, and beauty of Niagara Falls at Niagara Falls State Park in Niagara Falls, New York. |
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Oquaga Creek State Park - NPS Listing - Located in Bainbridge - three hours out of New York City, offers beach facilities and forested campsites. The 55-acre Arctic Lake has a sand beach for swimmers, and good fishing. |
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Taughannock Falls - Information and scenic photographs of the falls and park trails by a local resident. |
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