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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.
The Finger Lakes are a group of eleven long, narrow, roughly north–south lakes located directly south of Lake Ontario in an area called the Finger Lakes region in New York, in the United States. This region straddles the northern and transitional edge of the Northern Allegheny Plateau, known as the Finger Lakes Uplands and Gorges ecoregion ...
Watkins Glen State Park. / 42.377059°N 76.871687°W / 42.377059; -76.871687. Watkins Glen State Park is in the village of Watkins Glen, south of Seneca Lake in Schuyler County in New York 's Finger Lakes region. The park's lower part is near the village, while the upper part is open woodland. It was opened to the public in 1863 and was ...
Oneida Lake. / 43.20000°N 75.90000°W / 43.20000; -75.90000. Oneida Lake is the largest lake entirely within New York state, with a surface area of 79.8 square miles (207 km 2 ). [ 1][ 2] The lake is located northeast of Syracuse and near the Great Lakes. It feeds the Oneida River, a tributary of the Oswego River, which flows into Lake ...
New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Visitors. 123,908 (in 2010) [ 3] Open. All year. Website. Knox Farm State Park. Knox Farm State Park is a 633-acre (256.2 ha) state park located in Erie County, New York, [ 2] adjacent to the village of East Aurora. It is the former country estate of the Knox Family of Buffalo.
Canandaigua Lake / ˌkænənˈdeɪɡwə / is the fourth largest of the Finger Lakes in the U.S. state of New York. [ 1] The City of Canandaigua is located at the northern end of the lake and the village of Naples is several miles south of the southern end. It is the westernmost of the major Finger Lakes.
It is one of the cleanest lakes in the United States. It is 16 mi (26 km) long (17 mi or 27 km long including the bogs at the south end of the lake) and on average 0.75 mi (1.21 km) wide, with a surface area of 13.6 sq mi (35 km 2 ), and a maximum depth of 315 ft (96 m). The lake drains north via Skaneateles Creek, which flows into the Seneca ...
Corning, NY. Although Corning is not situated directly on the Finger Lakes, it is a charming town just under an hour's drive from the Finger Lakes National Forest. Established in 1852, Corning is ...