The History of the New York State Canal System - 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. - http://www.nyscanals.gov/cculture/history/
Niagara Falls State Park - Offers description, directions, hours, and attractions. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=113
Macomb Reservation State Park - NPS Listing - Schuyler Falls; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=148
Kring Point State Park - NPS Listing - Redwood; offers description, directions, hours, and attractions. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=149
Keewaydin State Park - NPS Listing - Alexandria Bay; offers description, directions, hours, and attractions. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=146
Jacques Cartier State Park - NPS Listing - Morristown; offers description, directions, hours, and attractions. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=145
Higley Flow State Park - NPS Listing - Colton; offers description, directions, hours, and attractions. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=144
Grass Point State Park - NPS Listing - Alexandria Bay; offers description, directions, hours, and attractions. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=123
Eel Weir State Park - NPS Listing - Located in Ogdensburg 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. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=122
Dewolf Point State Park - NPS Listing - 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. Located in Fineview. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=142
Cumberland Bay State Park - NPS Listing - Located in Plattsburg on the 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 - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=127
Oak Orchard State Marine Park - NPS Listing - Located in Waterport. Offers description, directions, hours, and attractions. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=13
Franklin D. Roosevelt State Park - NPS Listing - 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 s - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=139
Fahnestock Winter Park - NPS Listing - Located in the Fahnestock Memorial State Park in Carmel, the Winter Park has 15 km of machine groomed, tracked and mapped trails for safe cross country skiing and snowshoeing experiences. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=138
Taconic Outdoor Education Center - Cold Spring; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=114
Hunt's Pond State Park - NPS Listing - Oxford; offers description, directions, hours, and attractions. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=1
Lake Taghkanic State Park - NPS Listing - Ancram; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=131
Clarence Fahnestock State Park - NPS Listing - 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. Located in C - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=129
Thompson's Lake State Park - NPS Listing - East Berne; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=128
John Boyd Thacher State Park - NPS Listing - Voorheesville; offers description, directions, hours, and attractions. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=125
Saratoga Lake State Boat Launch - Saratoga Springs; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=121
Saratoga Spa State Park - NPS Listing - Saratoga Springs; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=124
Peebles Island State Park - NPS Listing - Located in Waterford. Offers description, directions, hours, and attractions. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=120
Lakeside Beach State Park - NPS Listing - Waterport; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=8
Moreau Lake State Park - NPS Listing - Gansevoort; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=119
Mine Kill State Park - NPS Listing - North Blenheim; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=117
Grafton Lakes State Park - NPS Listing - Grafton; offers description, directions, hours, and attractions. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=116
Wilson-Tuscarora State Park - NPS Listing - Wilson; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=31
Reservoir State Park - NPS Listing - Located in Niagara Falls and featuring sports facilities. Offers description, directions, hours, and attractions. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=112
Golden Hill State Park - NPS Listing - 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 shore - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=111
Four Mile Creek State Park - NPS Listing - Located in Youngstown - 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 - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=110
Fort Niagara State Park - NPS Listing - 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. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=109
Evangola State Park - NPS Listing - Located in Irving on Lake Erie - beautiful sand beach, swimming, picnic facilities, baseball and soccer fields, tennis and basketball courts and 80 campsites. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=101
Whirlpool State Park - NPS Listing - Niagara Falls; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=29
Devil's Hole State Park - NPS Listing - 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. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=28
Joseph Davis State Park - NPS Listing - Lewiston; offers description, directions, hours, and attractions. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=108
Earl W. Brydges ArtPark - State Park - NPS Listing - Located in Lewiston. Dedicated to presenting 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 - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=106
Watkins Glen State Park - NPS Listing - Watkins Glen; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=105
Hamlin Beach State Park - NPS Listing - Hamlin; offers description, directions, hours, and attractions. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=6
Robert H. Treman State Park - NPS Listing - Located in Ithaca. Offers description, directions, hours, and attractions. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=104
Taughannock Falls State Park - NPS Listing - Trumansburg; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=93
Stony Brook State Park - NPS Listing - Dansville; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=102
Seneca Lake State Park - NPS Listing - Geneva; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=97
Sampson State Park - NPS Listing - Offers description, directions, hours, and attractions. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=100
Lodi Point State Park - NPS Listing - Romulus; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=38
Keuka Lake State Park - NPS Listing - Located in Bluff Point. Offers description, directions, hours, and attractions. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=37
Lake Erie State Park - NPS Listing - Brockton; offers description, directions, hours, and attractions. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=96
Fillmore Glen State Park - NPS Listing - Located in Moravia, this 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 fishi - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=35
Fair Haven Beach State Park - NPS Listing - 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 - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=34
Dean's Cove Boat Launch - A boat launch site in Seneca Falls, including power boats, with wheel-chair accessible fishing access. No other facilities. Empire Passport accepted. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=10
Oquaga Creek State Park - NPS Listing - Located in Bainbridge - three hours out of New York City, offers beach facilities and forested campsites. The 55-acre Arctic Lake has a sand beach for swimmers, and good fishing. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=2
Roberto Clemente State Park - NPS Listing - Locatedin the Bronx. Offers description, directions, hours, and attractions. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=33
Clay Pit Ponds State Park - Preserve - 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. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=32
Verona Beach State Park - NPS Listing - Verona Beach; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=26
Selkirk Shores State Park - NPS Listing - Located in Pulaski. Offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=24
Pixley Falls State Park - NPS Listing - Offers description, directions, hours, and attractions. Located in Boonville. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=20
Green Lakes State Park - NPS Listing - Located in Fayetteville. Offers description, directions, hours, and attractions. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=23
Glimmerglass State Park - NPS Listing - Located eight miles outside the village of Cooperstown, overlooking Otsego Lake, is the "Glimmerglass" of James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=22
Gilbert Lake State Park - NPS Listing - 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. Features include: a frisbee - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=19
Delta Lake State Park - NPS Listing - Features 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. Located in Rome. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=18
Sterling Forest State Park - NPS Listing - Tuxedo; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=81
Minnewaska State Park - NPS Listing Preserve - New Paltz; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=78
Lake Superior State Park - NPS Listing - Monticello; offers description, directions, hours, and attractions. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=77
Highland Lakes State Park - NPS Listing - Bear Mountain; offers description, directions, hours, and attractions. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=76
High Tor State Park - NPS Listing - Bear Mountain; offers description, directions, hours, and attractions. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=58
Clark Reservation State Park - NPS Listing - a geologic wonder of the last ice age and a botanist's paradise. Guided tours, fishing, birdwatching and five trails for hiking. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=17
Riverbank State Park - NPS Listing - Offers description, directions, hours, and attractions. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=75
Connetquot River State Park Preserve - NPS Listing - 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 n - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=69
Tallman Mountain State Park - NPS Listing - Bear Mountain; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=66
Storm King State Park - NPS Listing - Bear Mountain; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=65
Chittenango Falls State Park - NPS Listing - 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 gorg - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=11
Nyack Beach State Park - NPS Listing - Offers description, directions, hours, and attractions. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=62
Conesus Lake Boat Launch - NPS Listing - Boat launch, also includes a picnic area and comfort station. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=61
Goosepond Mountain State Park - NPS Listing - This state park in Orange County, is managed as open space. It is almost completely wooded, open to hikers and horseback riders. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=56
Darien Lakes State Park - NPS Listing - 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, mul - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=63
James Baird State Park - NPS Listing - Pleasant Valley; offers description, directions, hours, and attractions. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=59
Wildwood State Park - NPS Listing - Wading River; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=52
Valley Stream State Park - NPS Listing - Valley Stream; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=51
Orient Beach State Park - NPS Listing - Offers description, directions, hours, and attractions. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=50
Robert Moses State Park - Long Island - Offers description, directions, hours, and attractions. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=45
Montauk Point State Park - NPS Listing - Montauk; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=136
Max V. Shaul State Park - NPS Listing - Fultonham; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=135
Harriman State Park - NPS Listing - Bear Mountain; offers description, directions, hours, and attractions. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=143
Woodlawn Beach State Park - NPS Listing - Blasdell; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=47
Montauk Downs State Park - NPS Listing - Montauk; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=165
Hither Hills State Park - NPS Listing - Montauk; offers description, directions, hours, and attractions. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=48
Coles Creek State Park - NPS Listing - 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. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=156
Jones Beach State Park - NPS Listing - Wantagh; offers description, directions, hours, and attractions. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=46
Hempstead Lake State Park - NPS Listing - West Hempstead; offers description, directions, hours, and attractions. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=155
Heckscher State Park - NPS Listing - East Islip; offers description, directions, hours, and attractions. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=153
Governor Alfred E. Smith/Sunken Meadow State Park - NPS Listing - 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 - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=44
Whetstone Gulf State Park - NPS Listing - Lowville; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=42
Westcott Beach State Park - NPS Listing - Sackets Harbor; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=161
Wellesley Island State Park - NPS Listing - Fineview; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=164
Waterson Point State Park - NPS Listing - Fineview; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=147
Southwick Beach State Park - NPS Listing - Henderson; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=154
Mary Island State Park - NPS Listing - Clayton; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=150
Silver Lake State Park - NPS Listing - Castile; offers description, directions, hours, and list of attractions. - http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=14
Hudson River History Tour - 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. - http://www.hudsonriver.com/history.htm
New York State Memorial - National Park Service - 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. - http://www.nps.gov/vick/ny/ny_stm.htm
Montauk Lighthouse, New York - 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. - http://www.montauklighthouse.com
Lake Placid NY, Whiteface Mountain, Adirondacks - Guide to Lake Placid, New York, in the Adirondack Mountains. Maps, dining, lodging, attractions, history, weather and skiing information. - http://www.lakeplacid.com/
Taughannock Falls - Information and scenic photographs of the falls and park trails by a local resident. - http://www.taughannock.com/