Visitors will enjoy the 167 foot waterfall formed from old bedrock. The falls can be viewed from the top, walk the winding trail into the gorge view the falls from the footbridge and return to the top along the small trail on the opposite side of the gorge. Activities include camping, fishing, hiking and picnicking.

The main feature of the park is Canopus Beach, a multi-million-dollar facility with a large, sandy beach, a concession stand, showers and toilets, and a picnic area. Other features include: excellent fishing, boating, bridle trails and more.

a geologic wonder of the last ice age and a botanist's paradise. Guided tours, fishing, birdwatching and five trails for hiking.

Clay Pit Ponds is a 260-acre nature preserve near the southwest shore of Staten Island offering a unique variety of habitats. Horseback riding is permitted with 5 miles of bridal paths.

wooded and open camp sites on a shelterd bay on Lake St. Lawrence. Ideal for boating and fishing. Also has playground, playing fields and hiking trails.

boat launch with excellent fishing. Also a picnic area and comfort station.

numerous waterfowl and deer, rare nesting birds, including the osprey, and plenty of rare plant species, such as trailing arbutus and pyxie moss in their natural habitats. The preserve also has 50 miles of hiking, horseback riding, cross-country ski and nature trails, as well as fishing on the Connetquot River.

north shore of Lake Champlain - a popular day-use area with large natural sand beach and picnic grounds. The park has 200 campsites, a playground and playing fields

The park has 158 campsites with heated comfort stations and showers, a sandy beach, playgrounds, fishing for largemouth black bass, hiking and horseback riding trails, picnic areas and a rustic bridge over the lake channel to Picnic Island. In winter, multiple-use trails are open for hiking, cross-country skiing and snowmobiling and a maintained and heated building for outdoor skating.

a boat launch site, including power boats, with wheel-chair accessible fishing access. No other facilities. Empire Passport accepted.

park has a sandy beach, picnic areas, hiking and nature trails, boat launch, and fishing. Park has 101 tent, trailer or RV camping sites. Winter visitors can cross-country ski, snowshoe or ice fish.

A wildly beautiful walkway leads down from the park along the turbulent Niagara River 300 feet into the wooded gorge and offers an up-close, spectacular view of the gorge's rapids.

Fishermen and nature lovers appreciate this small park's rustic beauty and turn-of-the-century gazebo and dockage for boats on the Lake of the Isles in the St. Lawrence River. Also camping and cabin community.

dedicated to presenting the finest in performing and visual arts programs, including Broadway musicals and classical, jazz and pop music concerts; art exhibits; classes, workshops and demonstrations, and tours of the park's geological and historic sites and nature trails.

located on the Oswegatchie River two miles from Black Lake. Excellent area for bass fishing, canoes and rowboats. Thirty-eight campsites are available, picnic area and pavilion.

on Lake Erie - beautiful sand beach, swimming, picnic facilities, baseball and soccer fields, tennis and basketball courts and 80 campsites.

Nestled in the 10,000 acre Fahnestock Memorial State Park, the Winter Park has 15 km of machine groomed, tracked and mapped trails for safe cross country skiing and snowshoeing experiences.

The park is lakefront in upstate New York, with high bluffs above sandy beaches and hilly woodlands. Inland, there is Sterling Pond, surrounded by campsites and cabins. Swimming and fishing are excellent. Rowboats, paddleboats and canoes are for rent and the park has a boat launch and recreation building which is available for rentals.

This State Park is dense woods along a narrow gorge. Hiking trails offer spectacular views, unique geological formations, including five waterfalls, and a botanically rich glen. The park has 60 campsites, a stream-fed swimming pool and fishing in the Owasco Lake inlet. In winter, hiking, cross-country skiing and snowmobiling are permitted on unplowed roads.

Youngstown has two boat launches providing access to the Lower Niagara River and Lake Ontario, woodland hiking trails, swimming pools, waterslide, a view of Lake Ontario, picnic grounds, playgrounds, tennis courts, water fowl hunting and 18 soccer fields. In winter, visitors can cross-country ski, snowshoe, and sled. Adjacent to Old Fort Niagara State Historic Site.

The park has 266 campsites and hiking trails along densely-wooded bluffs and offers play areas and freshwater fishing. The marsh at the mouth of Four Mile Creek is home to many varieties of fauna, such as great blue herons, and flora, such as white trillium and greenbrier.

This State Park's spacious picnic areas accommodate hundreds of people who visit the park daily. People of all ages also enjoy the park's oasis of blue water amid the green of the countryside. Swimming is provided in a mammoth pool that will accommodate several thousand people at one time. Mohansic Lake and Crom Pond provide excellent fishing and boating. Rowboat rentals are available in season and privately owned boats may be launched with a purchased at the park office.

Park offers a lake and three ponds lie in wooded, hilly terrain in the foothills of the Catskills. There are cabins and campsites and more than 12 miles of interconnecting trails for hikers, skiers, snowmobilers and snowshoers. Feature include: a frisbee golf course, swimming, boating, and fishing.

located eight miles outside the village of Cooperstown, overlooking Otsego Lake, is the "Glimmerglass" of James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales. The rolling, partially-wooded terrain is host to a wide variety of wildlife and an uphill trail through the forest affords a spectacular view of Otsego Lake; the Beaver Pond and Woodland trails are picturesque and of interest for the variety of wildflowers, shrubs, ferns and mosses. The Hyde Hall Mansion, Covered Bridge, and a self-guided Beaver Pond Nature Trail are within park boundaries and open to visitors. Winter visitors can go tubing, cross-country skiing, ice skating, showshoeing, snowmobiling, ice fishing, and winter hiking.

The park's campsites and boat launch attract anglers interested in the excellent fishing on Lake Ontario. The park also has a historical Thirty Mile Point Lighthouse, which invites visitors to take self-guided tours. Playing fields, frisbee golf and shoreline hiking are popular activities. In winter, visitors can snowshoe and cross-country ski.

This state park in Orange County, is managed as open space. It is almost completely wooded, open to hikers and horseback riders.

Sunken Meadow State Park offers swimming in Long Island Sound; hiking six miles of trails, including the northern starting point of the Suffolk County Greenbelt Trail; biking, horseback riding picnicking, fishing and cross-country skiing. In addition, the park has three 9-hole golf courses, a driving range and putting green.

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Alexandria Bay; offers description, directions, hours, and attractions.

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East Islip; offers description, directions, hours, and attractions.

West Hempstead; offers description, directions, hours, and attractions.

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Colton; offers description, directions, hours, and attractions.

Montauk; offers description, directions, hours, and attractions.

Dansville; offers description, directions, hours, and attractions.

Beacon; offers description, directions, hours, and attractions.

The Hudson Valley Virtual History Tour. Travel through time as you explore the Hudson River and Hudson Valley. You'll be connected to photos, museums and stories about the celebrated history of this region of New York.

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Oxford; offers description, directions, hours, and attractions.

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Pleasant Valley; offers description, directions, hours, and attractions.

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Wantagh; offers description, directions, hours, and attractions.

Lewiston; offers description, directions, hours, and attractions.

Alexandria Bay; offers description, directions, hours, and attractions.

Bluff Point; offers description, directions, hours, and attractions.

Redwood; offers description, directions, hours, and attractions.

Brockton; offers description, directions, hours, and attractions.

Guide to Lake Placid, New York, in the Adirondack Mountains. Maps, dining, lodging, attractions, history, weather and skiing information.

Bear Mountain; offers description, directions, hours, and attractions.

Monticello; offers description, directions, hours, and attractions.

Ancram; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions.

Bear Mountain; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions.

Bear Mountain; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions.

Waterport; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions.

Located in downtown Phoenix, New York, Lock Island Park and Pavilion is on the Oswego River to control Lock One as the Gateway to Oswego County and Lake Ontario to the North. The park provides the ongoing enjoyment of boat traffic as it passes through the lock. Easy access to local shops, restaurants, and parks.

Romulus; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions.

Oakdale; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions.

A web site dedicated to Long Island Lighthouses with photos, history, events, links and lighthouse preservation news.

Moravia; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions.

Three Mile Bay; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions.

Bemus Point; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions.

Schuyler Falls; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions.

Staatsburg; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions.

State Park that offers 18 holes of golf.

Clayton; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions.

Fultonham; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions.

North Blenheim; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions.

New Paltz; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions.

Montauk; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions.

Welcome to the Montauk Point Lighthouse, the oldest lighthouse in New York State. The Lighthouse was authorized under President George Washington in 1792. Online gift shop, pictures, videos, and events calendar.

Montauk; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions.

Gansevoort; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions.

This 43 foot tall granite memorial was dedicated on Oct 17, 1917, on the occasion of the National Memorial Reunion and Peace Jubilee and commemorates the 49th, 51st, and 46th infantry and the 2nd New York Light Battery L.

Detailed information about everything New York State has to offer at the best state park system in the nation.

a personal website from the perspective of a former tour guide.

discover the majesty, and beauty of Niagara Falls at Niagara Falls State Park in Niagara Falls, New York.

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just 3 hours out of New York City and New Jersey, makes the beach facilities and forested campsites the perfect summer escape. The 55-acre Arctic Lake has a sand beach for swimmers, and good fishing.

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A vision of Long Island's Gold Coast

Saratoga Springs; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions.

Saratoga Springs; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions.

The first lighthouse at the mouth of the Esopus Creek at Saugerties was built in 1838. It was constructed to guide ships away from nearby shallows and into the Esopus Creek when Saugerties was a major port with daily commercial and passenger transportation. The present lighthouse was built in 1869 and is open weekends and holidays, Memorial Day through Columbus Day, 2pm to 5pm.

Bear Mountain; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions.

Pulaski; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions.

Geneva; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions.

Castile; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions.

Bear Mountain; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions.

Henderson; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions.

Ogdensburg; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions.

Tuxedo; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions.

Dansville; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions.

Bear Mountain; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions.

Park facilities and services include: beach bathing - on the Long Island Sound, hiking trails, picnic area cross country skiing, refreshment stands and cafeteria, 3/4 mile boardwalk, three 9-hole golf courses,driving range, putting green, clubhouse (cafeteria), and golf pro-shop.

Cold Spring; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions.

Copake Falls; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions.

Millerton; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions.

Bear Mountain; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions.

Site features general park information, map of hiking trails, and scenic photos. The park features the Taughannock Waterfall located in Ulysses, NY, the tallest in the Northeast with a 215 foot (66 meters) sheer vertical drop.

Trumansburg; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions.

Read about how Governor DeWitt Clinton of New York convinced the state legislature to authorize $7 million for construction of a canal 363 miles long, 40 feet wide and four feet deep in 1817 allowing trade to funnel down the Hudson to New York City.

East Berne; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions.

Valley Stream; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions.

Verona Beach; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions.

Fineview; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions.

Watkins Glen; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions.

Fineview; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions.

Sackets Harbor; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions.

Lowville; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions.

Niagara Falls; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions.

Wading River; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions.

Wilson; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions.

Blasdell; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions.