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State agencies announced another beach closed Wednesday due to an algae bloom: Lake Welch Beach in Harriman State Park
The condition of Lake Welch will be assessed next week, state officials said. Algae bloom shuts down swimming, boating, kayaking at Lake Welch in Harriman State Park Skip to main content
The Deerfield River also overflowed, leading to road and bridge closures in Greenfield. [100] Most of the heavy rainfall was centered across northern and northwestern portions of the state, near the Vermont and New York state borders, where Conway received 4.58 inches (116 mm) and Ashfield with 4.12 inches (105 mm) of rainfall.
At 47,527 acres (192.33 km 2), [1] Harriman State Park is the second largest state park in the U.S. state of New York. [2] Located in Rockland and Orange counties 30 miles (48 km) north of New York City , it is a haven for hikers with over 200 miles (320 km) of hiking trails.
At Bear Mountain, a gift of 10,000 acres and $1,000,000 by Mary W. Harriman led to the establishing of Bear Mountain and Harriman State Parks. Today, Bear Mountain receives over 2 million annual visitors and Harriman is the second largest state park in New York.
Arden Valley Road is an east-west parkway located in Southfields, New York, in the United States, that travels through Harriman State Park and is owned by the Palisades Interstate Park Commission. At 5.2 miles (8.4 km) long, it begins at New York State Route 17 (NY 17) in Southfields and ends at Seven Lakes Drive in Harriman
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The area was inhabited as early as 1724 by Nicholas Conklin, and his descendants had several cabins on the land when the Palisades Interstate Park Commission acquired the land for the Harriman State Park. The dam that created the lake was built by Civilian Conservation Corps labor under William A. Welch of the Park Commission. The lake was ...