Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Smith Point County Park is a beachfront park facing the Atlantic Ocean on the east end of Fire Island, along the central south shore of Long Island, near Shirley, New York, United States. It is the largest park owned by Suffolk County. The park derives its name from Smith Point, a peninsula on the Long Island mainland that extends into Bellport ...
The bridge project was the development of Smith Point County Park, with a beach frontage of 6,000 feet along the eastern side of Fire Island Barrier Island on Atlantic Ocean. The park includes bathing and camping facilities. The entire structure was built on concrete piles, with a reinforced concrete roadway laid on a steel beam superstructure.
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.
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (2005). "Map of Southwick Beach State Park and Lakeview Wildlife Management Area" , archived at WebCite from this original URL 2008-04-22. 43°46′08″N 76°12′14″W / 43.769°N 76.204°W / 43.769; -
Napeague State Park's land was initially purchased by the Nature Conservancy in 1976 and conveyed to New York State in 1978. [3] It consists mostly of wetlands in areas where waves washed over Long Island during the Great Hurricane of 1938. Napeague was the location of the crash of American Airlines Flight 1502 in 1961, resulting in the deaths ...
The 1938 New England hurricane transformed the shoreline, shifting sands to create a narrow, walkable strip that now connects the lighthouse with the mainland. The 40 foot granite lighthouse which was built in 1868 was decommissioned in 1934 and replaced by an automatic light on a steel skeleton at breakwater. [ 1 ]
Upgrade to a faster, more secure version of a supported browser. It's free and it only takes a few moments:
Wellesley Island State Park is a 2,636-acre (10.67 km 2) state park [2] located on Wellesley Island in the St. Lawrence River in the Town of Orleans in Jefferson County, New York. The park is divided into sections that are on different parts of the island.