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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.
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".
H. Hallock State Park Preserve; Hamlin Beach State Park; Harriet Hollister Spencer State Recreation Area; Harriman State Park (New York) Haverstraw Beach State Park
This is a list of New York (state) historic sites. It includes 40 state-designated historic sites and parks managed by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Twenty-two sites also are National Historic Landmarks (NHLs) of the United States and are described further in List of National Historic ...
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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 ]
Clark Reservation State Park is a state park in Onondaga County, New York.The park is in Jamesville, NY, in the Town of DeWitt, south of Syracuse.It was the site of a large waterfall formed by melting glacial ice at the end of the last Ice Age; the plunge basin at the base of the old falls is now a small lake.
The Sands–Willets Homestead in Flower Hill – a designated New York State Landmark. In order to be listed on the state register, a property is first nominated. The nomination is then reviewed by the Survey and National Register Unit of the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) for compliance with the criteria set forth by the National Park Service for inclusion on the National Register ...