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The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has created an Accessible Recreation Destinations Map for over 200 ADA accessible education centers, campgrounds and day use areas ...
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation The Vanderwhacker Mountain Wild Forest is a 91,854-acre (143.5 sq mi; 371.7 km 2 ) tract made up of almost two dozen non-contiguous parcels that are designated as Wild Forest by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation in the central Adirondack Park . [ 1 ]
Permissible activities on New York state forest lands include hunting, trapping, fishing, hiking, snowshoeing, cross-county skiing, horseback riding, snowmobiling, and camping, although some properties prohibit some of these activities. [2] Motorized vehicle use is prohibited except for on specified roads and trails.
DEC manages 45 campgrounds in the Adirondacks and 7 in the Catskills, for a total of 52 (public campgrounds elsewhere in New York are under the authority of the state parks). The state's three ski areas — Belleayre Mountain in the Catskills and Gore mountain and Whiteface Mountain in the Adirondacks — also fall under this classification as ...
Lake Harris Campground is a campground operated by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) on Harris Lake in the town of Newcomb, New York in the Adirondacks. The campground is open from mid-May through early September. 275-acre (1.11 km 2) Harris Lake empties into the Hudson River near its beginning just above the ...
Open during the Great New York State Fair, this state park is billed as New York's smallest. It simulates a park-like setting within the fairgrounds and includes exhibits focused on New York's state parks and historic sites. [180] Sterling Forest State Park: Palisades: Orange: 22,180 acres (8,980 ha) 1998 [181] 266,944: Sterling Lake, Greenwood ...
The Debar Mountain Wild Forest is a 83,405-acre (337.53 km 2) [1] tract designated as Wild Forest by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation in the northeastern Adirondack Park, just north of Paul Smiths, in Franklin County.
Forked Lake is a 893-acre (361 ha) lake in the Adirondack Park in New York, 7 miles (11 km) southwest of the village of Long Lake.The lake is slender, and shaped like an inverted "T", 5 miles (8.0 km) across the east-west oriented bottom but only 0.2 miles (0.32 km) wide, with its northward arm even narrower and 3.8 miles (6.1 km) long.