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Jones Beach State Park in Wantagh, New York, in 2021. The LISPC was created in 1924 by the New York State Legislature to build and operate parks & parkways on Long Island. [2] [3] [4] Governor Al Smith was appointed as its first President, and Robert Moses, who had drafted the bill creating the agency, served until 1953.
Prospect Point at the Niagara Reservation, c. 1900.The reservation, known today as Niagara Falls State Park, was the first park opened by New York State.. State-level procurement and management of parks in New York began in 1883, when then-governor Grover Cleveland signed legislation authorizing the appropriation of lands near Niagara Falls for a "state reservation".
Belmont Lake State Park: Long Island: Suffolk: 463 acres (187 ha) 1926 [26] 578,226: Belmont Lake: Day-use only. Formerly hosted the headquarters of the Long Island State Park Commission. [26] Bethpage State Park: Long Island: Nassau, Suffolk: 1,477 acres (598 ha) 1934 [27]: 21 795,563
Canoe-Picnic Point State Park was purchased by the New York State Fisheries, Game and Forest Commission in 1897. Along with Mary Island State Park, it was one of the first New York state parks established along the St. Lawrence River as part of the St. Lawrence Reservation, a recreation area within the Thousand Islands region authorized by New York State in 1896.
Robert Moses State Park - Long Island is a 875-acre (3.54 km 2) state park in southern Suffolk County, New York. [3] The park lies on the western end of Fire Island, one of the central barrier islands off the southern coast of Long Island, and is known for its five-mile (8.0 km) stretch of beaches on the Atlantic Ocean.
Additionally, about 280 bird species can be observed in the park. [7] The park is accessible by the Heckscher State Parkway, and falls within the district protected by the Great River Fire Department. The Long Island Greenbelt Trail starts its 31-mile (50 km) route in Heckscher State Park. It ends in Sunken Meadow State Park.
Bethpage State Park is a 1,477-acre (5.98 km 2) New York state park on the border of Nassau County and Suffolk County on Long Island. The park contains tennis courts, picnic and recreational areas and a polo field, but is best known for its five golf courses, including the Bethpage Black Course , which hosted the 2002 and 2009 U.S. Open Golf ...
Beach at Sunken Meadow State Park. Sunken Meadow State Park is open year-round from sunrise to sunset. The park's features include three miles (4.8 km) of beaches on the Long Island Sound, a three-quarters-mile-long (1.2 km) boardwalk, six miles (9.7 km) of hiking trails, and facilities for biking, horseback riding, watersports, and general recreation.