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As of 2017, New York has 215 state parks and historic sites encompassing 350,000 acres. The agency's portfolio also includes 28 golf courses, 35 swimming pools, 67 beaches, and 18 museums and nature centers. [5] The following sortable tables list current and former New York state parks, respectively, all 'owned' or managed by the OPRHP, as of 2015.
This is a list of hotels in the United States, both current and defunct, organized by state. The list includes highly rated luxury hotels , skyscraper rated buildings, and historic hotels. It is not a directory of every chain or independent hotel building in the United States.
The Catskill Mountains, also known as the Catskills, are a physiographic province and subrange of the larger Appalachian Mountains, located in southeastern New York.As a cultural and geographic region, the Catskills are generally defined as those areas close to or within the borders of the Catskill Park, a 700,000-acre (2,800 km 2) forest preserve protected from many forms of development under ...
Letchworth State Park is a 14,427-acre (5,838 ha) New York State Park located in Livingston County and Wyoming County in the western part of the State of New York. [ 1 ] [ 5 ] The park is roughly 17 miles (27 km) long, following the course of the Genesee River as it flows north through a deep gorge and over several large waterfalls . [ 6 ]
By 1925 the hotels were failing due to a decline in tourism, and New York State began acquiring land to form a park. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] J.S. Halsey built a two and a half story hotel in 1850, known variously as the Cataract Hotel or Taughannock House (or simply as Halsey's Hotel) at the Taughannock Falls Overlook.
Sterling Forest State Park is a 22,180-acre (89.8 km 2) state park [5] located in the Ramapo Mountains in Orange County, New York. Established in 1998, it is among the larger additions to the New York state park system in the last 50 years.
Pages in category "State parks of New York (state)" The following 197 pages are in this category, out of 197 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Whirlpool State Park is a 109-acre (0.44 km 2) state park [2] located in Niagara County, New York, [5] north of the city of Niagara Falls. The park overlooks the Niagara Whirlpool on the Niagara River and the lower Niagara Gorge .