Long Point State Park on Lake Chautauqua explained

Long Point State Park on Lake Chautauqua
Map:New York
Coords:42.18°N -79.409°W
Type:State park
Location:4459 Route 430
Bemus Point, New York[1]
Area:360acres[2]
Created:[3]
Operator:New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation
Visitation Num:62,034
Visitation Year:2014
Visitation Ref:[4]
Open:All year
Website:Long Point State Park on Lake Chautauqua

Long Point State Park (on Chautauqua Lake) is a 360acres state park[2] located in the Town of Ellery, near the hamlet of Maple Springs in Chautauqua County, New York. The park is located on a short peninsula on the east side of the lake and can be reached on Route 430.

History

The park was formed from two gifts of former estates on Chautauqua Lake. The first estate was donated to New York State in 1956 by Mr. and Mrs. John W. Minturn; Mrs. Minturn was the granddaughter of former state governor Reuben E. Fenton. The park was expanded several years later with the gift of the summer estate of Bainbridge Colby, former United States Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson.[3]

Facilities

The park offers a beach, a playground, picnic tables and pavilions, a nature trail, showers, fishing, a boat launch with marine pump-out station, and cross-country skiing and snowmobiling.[1]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Long Point State Park on Lake Chautauqua . NYS Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation . October 18, 2016.
  2. Book: 2014 New York State Statistical Yearbook . The Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government . 2014 . Section O: Environmental Conservation and Recreation, Table O-9 . 673 . February 28, 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150916082616/http://www.rockinst.org/nys_statistics/2014/2014_Yearbook_Section_O.pdf . September 16, 2015 . dead .
  3. Book: Fifty Years: New York State Parks, 1924-1974 . 34 . Natural Heritage Trust . 1975 . Natural Heritage Trust . New York State Office of Parks and Recreation . New York State Council of Parks & Recreation .
  4. Web site: State Park Annual Attendance Figures by Facility: Beginning 2003 . Data.ny.gov . October 18, 2016.