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Beaver Island State Park is a New York state park located on Grand Island in northwestern Erie County, New York in the United States. [4] It is situated at the southern end of the island on the bank of the Niagara River and served by the Beaver Island Parkway, a 2.72-mile (4.38 km) highway linking the park to Interstate 190 (I-190).
Niagara Amusement Park and Splash World [1] is an 85 acres (34 ha) amusement park in Grand Island, New York near Niagara Falls, New York. It features a theme park, water park, and is adjacent to a KOA campground. The park is owned by Store Capital and operated by IB Parks & Entertainment. [2]
Falconwood Subdivision, built in the 1950s and 1960s, was named for the Falconwood Club, which runs from East River Road across the Beaver Island Parkway and extends to Baseline Rd. It is the closest large subdivision to the South Grand Island Bridge. [9]
Big Six Mile Creek Marina is located in a protected valley along a tributary to the Niagara River, and features the only public boat launch facilities on the western side of Grand Island. [5] The park offers a marina with 134 seasonal boat slips, as well as a boat launch ramp and fishing access. [6] The park is open from May through November. [7]
Sep. 6—The Glynn County Finance Committee will consider a request at Thursday's meeting to recommend spending nearly $450,000 to purchase and install a new inclusive playground at Blythe Island ...
Buckhorn Island State Park is an 895-acre (3.62 km 2) state park located in Erie County, New York in the Town of Grand Island. The park is on the northern end of the island of Grand Island. The park is 1 of 80 New York State Parks that are in the path of totality for the 2024 solar eclipse, with 3 minutes and 37 seconds of totality. [4]
The Odawa, who speak a dialect of the Ojibwe language, lived on Beaver Island for at least 300 years prior to its settlement by more recent immigrants. [20] The region of Lake Michigan that surrounds Beaver Island has an unenviable reputation in the long history of shipwrecks on the Great Lakes, [21] and a wreck within swimming distance of the island itself has been proposed as the possible ...
Grand Island's glacier-cut lake shoreline measures approximately 35 miles (56 km) in length. The island's maximum dimension is 8 miles (13 km) from north to south. Grand Island was designated a national recreation area by the U.S. Congress in 1990 after the U.S. Forest Service purchased the island from its former owner, Cleveland Cliffs Iron Co.