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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".
Margaret Lewis Norrie State Park is a 356-acre (1.44 km 2) state park [2] in Dutchess County, New York in the United States. The park is located on the east shore of the Hudson River in the Town of Hyde Park and also includes Esopus Island .
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. [3]
Valley Stream State Park is a 97-acre (39 ha) state park [1] located in the Incorporated Village of Valley Stream, in Nassau County, on Long Island, in New York, United States. It is one of three state parks located within the Town of Hempstead .
They then moved into New York State to Tallman Mountain, where quarrying was also taking place. Within a decade, the quarries were mostly closed down and the Palisades Interstate Park was opened. At the same time, the Commission was working to expand public open space in Rockland and Orange Counties, NY.
Schodack Island State Park (formerly known as Castleton Island State Park [5]) is a 1,052-acre (4.26 km 2) state park that spans portions of Rensselaer, Greene, and Columbia counties, New York. [2] The park is located between the Hudson River and Schodack Creek, and was opened in 2002.
Franklin D. Roosevelt State Park prominently features a large swimming pool with the capacity to hold 3,500 bathers at one time. The park also offers biking, a boat launch and rentals, disc golf, fishing, ice skating, picnic tables and pavilions, a playground and playing fields, recreation programs, trails for hiking, jogging, snowmobiling and ...
Sampson State Park (along with Sampson State Park Beach) is a 2,070-acre (8.4 km 2) state park located in Seneca County, New York. [2] The park is south of the city of Geneva in the Town of Romulus on the east shore of Seneca Lake , one of the Finger Lakes .