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Bayard
Cutting Arboretum State Park
Box 466
Oakdale, NY 11769
(631) 581-1002
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Bayard Cutting Arboretum's
purpose is "to provide an oasis of beauty and
quiet for the pleasure, rest and refreshment of
those who delight in outdoor beauty, and to
bring about a greater appreciation and
understanding of the value and importance of
informal planting." The current collection of
fir, spruce, pine, cypress, hemlock and other
conifers is probably the most extensive to be
found on Long Island. Also found are extensive
plantings of dwarf evergreens, rhododendron,
azaleas, hollies and oaks, wildflowers and
daffodils. With the park's ponds and streamlets,
these plantings provide food and homes for land
and aquatic birds, fox, raccoon and other
wildlife.
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Grand Central Pkwy to Northern
Pkwy, or the LI Expressway
to Sagtikos State Parkway, south to Southern
State Pkwy, east to Heckscher State Parkway,
south to Montauk Hwy (Rte 27A, exit 45E) to the
Arboretum.
From Eastern Long Island:
Sunrise Highway (Route 27) west to Southern
State Parkway, south to exit 45E (Route 27A),
east on Route 27A to Arboretum
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Belmont Lake State Park
P.O. Box 247
Babylon, NY 11702
(631) 667-5055
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Belmont Lake State Park is a full
service park and the headquarters of the Long
Island State Park Region. Activities include
boating, fishing, picnicking, biking, horseback
riding, hiking and cross-country skiing. The
park also has playing fields, horseshoe and
basketball courts and playgrounds.
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Exit 38 Southern State Parkway, 42
miles from Manhattan. Or, Deer Park Ave. from
Babylon and Belmont Ave, from Sunrise Hwy (Route
27).
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Bethpage State Park
Bethpage Parkway
Farmingdale, NY 11735
(516) 249-0701
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Bethpage State Park is best known
for its five world-class golf courses, but
visitors flock to the park to use its picnic
facilities, bridle paths, hiking and biking
trails, playing fields, tennis courts and
cross-county skiing trails.
Also available at Bethpage State
Park are restaurant and catering facilities, a
Golf Pro Shop and driving range.
Bethpage State Park also has a
handicap accessible polo field. Matches are
played every Sunday from June through October.
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LI Expressway (Route 495) east to
exit 44S, Seaford/Oyster Bay Expressway (Route
135) south to Powell Avenue Exit 8, east to
park.
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Caleb
Smith State Park Preserve
Box 963
Smithtown, NY 11787
(631) 265-1054
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You can take a step back in time
at Caleb Smith State Park Preserve. The Preserve
provides hiking, cross-country skiing, nature
trails, and fishing as well. Comprised of
freshwater wetlands, ponds, streams, fields and
upland woods, the park is nestled in the middle
of a suburb. The park is an excellent place to
pursue fly fishing as well. The preserve is a
refuge for wildlife and a place for people to
develop an awareness and appreciation of the
natural world.
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Take either, the Long Island
Expressway (495) to Exit 53 (north) or the
Northern State Parkway to Exit 45 (north) OR the
Southern State Parkway to Exit 41A (north); to
the Sunken Meadow Parkway (north) to Exit SM 3
East to Smithtown, onto Jericho Turnpike/Route
25 (east) for three (3) miles to the park.
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Camp
Hero State Park
50 South Fairview Ave
Montauk, NY 11954
(631) 668-3781
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Camp Hero State Park encompasses
415 acres of diverse landscape including heavily
wooded areas, a long expanse of beachfront along
the Atlantic Ocean, and an historic military
installation. Specific features of Camp Hero are
magnificent pristine maritime forests,
freshwater wetlands, spectacular ocean vistas
and dramatic bluffs rising from the beach. An
extensive system of trails is available for
hiking, biking and horseback riding. The park
boasts some of the best surf fishing locations
in the world, open 24 hours a day to fishermen
with permits, and areas for picnicking. An
undisturbed environment shelters bountiful
wildlife and an abundance of birds. The former
military base that is in the park is registered
as a National Historic Site.
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Route 27 (Sunrise Highway) east to
the end. The park is approximately 130 miles from
New York City.
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Caumsett
State Historic Park
25 Lloyd Harbor Road
Huntington, NY 11743
(631) 423-1770
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Caumsett State Historic Park,
situated on a scenic peninsula extending into Long
Island Sound, offers miles of bridle paths, walking,
jogging, hiking, biking, cross-country skiing and
nature trails over acres of woodland, meadows, rock
shoreline and salt marsh. The park has beautiful
gardens, excellent fishing and scuba diving by
permit
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Rte. 495, east to Rte. 110, north
to Rte. 25A, west to West Neck Road, north to
park.
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Cold Spring
Harbor State Park
Care of Caumsett State Historic Park
25 Lloyd Harbor Road
Huntington, NY 11743
(631) 423-1770
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The park is comprised of 40 acres
of hilly terrain that offer scenic vistas of the
Cold Spring Harbor. It features a mixed hardwood
forest with notable large oak specimens that
measure three feet in diameter, as well as
thickets of wild mountain laurel.
The area is ideal for observing
spring and fall migrations of a variety of
songbirds, and is home to great horned owls and
red-tailed hawks. The park serves as the
northern trailhead of the Nassau Suffolk
Greenbelt Trail that extends to Bethpage State
Park and eventually the south shore of Nassau
County.
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From Nassau County (West):
Northern State Parkway or LIE (495) east to the
Seafood Oysterbay Expressway (135) north to
Jericho Turnpike east. Take Jericho Tpke to
Woodbury Road, make left (north). At Route 108
make left and follow to end Lawrence Hill Road.
At end make left and immediate right onto Route
25A (east). Follow one half-mile to parking
field and trailhead on right.
From eastern Suffolk County:
Northern State Parkway or LIE (495) west to
Route 110 north. Take Route 110 to Route 25A,
make left (west). Follow 25A into the village of
Cold Spring Harbor to the parking field on left.
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Connetquot River State Park Preserve
Box 505
Oakdale, NY 11769
(631) 581-1005
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Connetquot River State Park
Preserve maintains 3,473 acres of land and water
for the protection and propagation of game
birds, fish and animals. Deer and waterfowl are
numerous, rare nesting birds, including the
osprey, are present and there are
numerous rare plants, 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 (by permit only) on the
Connetquot River.
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From western Long Island:
Southern State Parkway east to exit 44 (Sunrise
Highway), east to the Preserve. From eastern
Long Island: Sunrise Highway west to Oakdale.
The Preserve is located on the north side of
Sunrise Highway, just west of Pond Road.
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Governor Alfred E. Smith/Sunken Meadow State Park
PO Box 716
Rte. 25A and Sunken Meadow Parkway
Kings Park, NY 11754
(631) 269-4333
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Sunken Meadow State Park, located on
Long Island Sound, has a wide range of topography
that sustains a variety of flora and fauna. The
three miles of beach meets tall, glacier-formed
bluffs at the west end of the shoreline. A man-made
dam separates the park's brackish creek and marshes
from the tidal flats. South of the flats are acres
of undeveloped and heavily-wooded rolling hills.
Activities include 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, kayaking, canoeing, windsurfing,
fishing, a ¾ mile boardwalk and cross-country
skiing. In addition, the park has 27 holes of golf,
a driving range and putting green.
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Forty-six miles from Manhattan on the
northern terminus of Sunken Meadow/Sagtikus Parkway.
LI Expressway exit 53.
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Heckscher State Park
Box 160
East Islip, NY 11730
(631) 581-2100
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Heckscher State Park has more than a
million visitors a year. Twenty miles of trails
attract hikers, bicycle and cross-country skiers.
Swimmers can use the Great South Bay or the swimming
pool complex. There are picnic areas, a boat launch
ramp, playing fields, playground and 69 camp sites.
Only vehicles under eleven feet high can come into
the campgrounds
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At the end of the Heckscher State
Pkwy, 50 miles from Manhattan on the south shore of
LI, within the East Islip/Great River Area in
Suffolk County.
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Hempstead Lake State Park
West Hempstead, NY 11552
(516) 766-1029
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Hempstead Lake State Park is a multi
use facility. Included are 20 tennis courts,
children's playgrounds, basketball courts, bridle
trails for horse back riding, biking and hiking
trails, shaded picnic areas and a historic hand
carved wooden carousel. There is a picnic pavilion
available for large parties.
There are three ponds that are
accessible for fishing. On Hempstead Lake, the
largest lake in Nassau County, you are permitted to
use car top boats with an annual permit issued from
the Park. Fishing in Hempstead Lake is by catch and
release only. McDonald Pond and South Pond are
stocked with trout in the fall and you may target
trout throughout the winter months. Other species
present include large mouth bass, chain pickerel,
black crappe, perch, tiger muskies, carp and
sunfish.
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Exit 18 of the Southern State Parkway
in West Hempstead.
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Hither Hills State Park
50 South Fairview Avenue
Montauk, NY 11754
(631) 668-2554
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Hither Hills State Park offers
visitors scenic picnic areas and fireplaces, sport
fishing, a sandy ocean beach, playing fields, a
playground and a 168-site campground on the ocean.
Anglers can fish year-round and obtain permits to
fish at night. The unique "walking dunes" of
Napeague Harbor are located on the eastern boundary
of the park, which also has woodlands filled with
Russian olive, oak, shad and pine trees. Bridle
paths and hiking, nature, biking and cross-country
ski trails are available.
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122 miles from Manhattan via Sunrise
Highway (Route 27) east to Park.
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Montauk Point State Park
50 South Fairview Avenue
Montauk, NY 11954
(631) 668-3781
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Montauk Point State Park, a
heavily-wooded tundra leading to the eastern tip of
Long Island and the historic Montauk Lighthouse,
offers some of the best surf fishing in the
world. The view is unique, because, when the water
is calm, visitors can clearly see the "race" of
converging tides from the Atlantic and Block Island
Sound. Visitors can also use the nature trails to
hike or cross-country ski, or spend time watching
the seals sun on the rocks offshore.
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132 miles from Manhattan, via Sunrise
Hwy (Route 27) east to the Park
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Nissequogue
River State Park
Saint Johnland Road
P.O. Box 639
Kings Park, NY 11754
(631) 269-4927
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Nissequogue River State Park is
located on the north shore of Long Island. A variety
of habitats including tidal and fresh water wetlands
and hardwood forests provide habitat to a variety of
shore birds, reptiles and amphibians. A section of
the park has been designated a State Bird
Conservation Area. The Greenbelt Trail, for walking
and hiking, parallels the Nissequogue River and
provides scenic views of the river and the Long
Island Sound from the top of the bluffs. The park
also has a soccer field, a canoe and kayak launch,
fishing, bird watching, interpretive signs, guided
tours and group tours by reservation, bicycle
rentals, plus a conference room which can be rented.
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Sunken Meadow Pkwy North to SM4. Head
east on Pulaski (which changes into Old Dock Rd.) At
the 4th traffic light make a right onto St. Johnland
Rd. Park entrance is about 1/2 mile on the left.
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Orient Beach State Park
Box 117
Orient, NY 11957
(631) 323-2440
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frontage on Gardiner's Bay and a rare
maritime forest with red cedar, black-jack oak trees
and prickly-pear cactus. A beautiful wood deck lets
you overlook Gardiner's Bay. Visitors can swim in
the bay, fish, picnic, play ball, go hiking or
biking, or walk a nature trail. Pavilions available
for private parties with catering available by
concessionaire.
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118 miles from Manhattan on the north
shore via Long Island Expressway (Route 495) east to
the end, then Route 25 east to the Park.
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Shadmoor State Park
50 South Fairview Ave
Montauk, NY 11954
(631) 668-3781
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Ninety-nine acre Shadmoor State Park,
located one quarter-mile east of Montauk Village,
features more than 2,400 feet of ocean beach
accessed by two stairways. The park, named for its
open, rolling geography and the shadbush that grows
there, also has bluffs, freshwater wetlands that are
part of the preserve, hiking trails and elevated
platforms for birdwatching and enjoying the
shoreline views. Visitors may picnic and saltwater
fish.The park's foliage includes black cherry trees
and clusters of the rare and federally-endangered
sand plain gerardia plant. Of historical note, two
concrete bunkers, erected during World War II and
once equipped with artillery guns to protect the
coast from enemy invasion, remain on the property.
Shadmoor does not charge for parking.
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Route 27 (Sunrise Highway) east to
Montauk Village. The park is one-half mile east of
the village on the right, at the southwest corner of
Route 27 and Seaside Ave.
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Trail
View State Park
25 Lloyd Harbor Road
Huntington, NY 11743 (631) 423-1770
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Trail View is a 400-acre, 7.4-mile
linear park that serves as a link along the
Nassau/Suffolk Greenbelt Trail that extends from
Cold Spring Harbor State Park on the north shore of
Suffolk County to Bethpage State Park, and
eventually to the south shore of Nassau County.
Offering a variety of recreational
opportunities including trails for hiking and
bicycling on its hilly terrain and open fields.
Trail View encompasses a variety of
habitats and undeveloped natural resources such as
hardwood forests, marshes and succession fields with
elevations ranging from 60 to 300 feet above sea
level. The park is a favorite spot for birdwatchers
year-round, most especially--because it lies on the
Atlantic flyway--during the spring and fall bird
migrations.
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From Nassau County (West):
Northern State Parkway, Southern State Parkway or
LIE (495) east to the Seaford Oyster Bay Expressway
(135) north to Jericho Turnpike east. Take Jericho
Tpke (25) east past two traffic lights. Parking will
be on the left side of the road.
From Eastern Suffolk County:
Northern State Parkway, Southern State Parkway or
LIE (495) west to the Seaford Oyster Bay Expressway
(135) north to Jericho Turnpike east. Take Jericho
Tpke (25) east past two traffic lights. Parking will
be on the left side of the road.
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Wildwood State Park
P.O. Box 518, North Wading River Road
Wading River, NY 11792(631) 929-4314
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Wildwood State Park comprises 600
acres of undeveloped hardwood forest terminating on
the high bluff overlooking Long Island Sound.
Trailer and tent sites are available for campers.
Swimmers can take advantage of the cool waters of
the Sound, and picnickers can relax at shaded picnic
tables as their children enjoy the nearby
playground. Visitors can fish and use the hiking and
cross-country ski trails. Fall Festival first
weekend in October.
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73 miles from Manhattan. Long Island
Expressway to exit 68. North on Route 46, to Route
25A east. Left onto Sound Avenue - left at traffic
light onto Hulse Landing Road. Park entrance is on
the right.
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