Macomb Reservation State Park

State park in Clinton County, New York

44°37′12″N 73°36′43″W / 44.62°N 73.612°W / 44.62; -73.612Area600 acres (2.4 km2)[2]Created1968 (1968)[3]Operated byNew York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic PreservationVisitors29,862 (in 2014)[4]OpenAll yearWebsiteMacomb Reservation State Park

Macomb Reservation State Park is a 600-acre (2.4 km2) state park[2] in the Town of Schuyler Falls in Clinton County, New York, United States. The park is located on the Salmon River, outside the Adirondack Park, and two miles (3.2 km) west of the hamlet of Schuyler Falls.

History

Macomb Reservation State Park occupies land previously used as a military training facility. New York State purchased 6,372 acres (25.79 km2) of federal property in April 1947, 600 acres (2.4 km2) of which were given over to the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation in 1968. The remainder of the purchased property is managed by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation for the purpose of reforestation.[3]

Park description

The park offers a beach, a playground and playing fields, picnic tables and pavilions, recreation programs, a nature trail, fishing (in Davis Pond or the Salmon River), a boat launch for non-motorized boats, a campground for tents and trailers, a dump station, cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, snowmobiling, and ice-skating.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Macomb Reservation State Park". NYS Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation. Retrieved April 29, 2016.
  2. ^ a b "Section O: Environmental Conservation and Recreation, Table O-9". 2014 New York State Statistical Yearbook (PDF). The Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government. 2014. p. 673. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 16, 2015. Retrieved February 27, 2016.
  3. ^ a b NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (May 10, 2010). State Park Acquisition Record and Document Review (PDF) (Report). p. 17. Retrieved May 31, 2015.
  4. ^ "State Park Annual Attendance Figures by Facility: Beginning 2003". Data.ny.gov. Retrieved April 29, 2016.

External links

  • New York State Parks: Macomb Reservation State Park
  • v
  • t
  • e
Protected areas of New York
National Historic
Sites and Historical Parks
National Memorials
National monuments
National Trails
National Seashores
and Recreation Areas
National Wildlife
Refuges
National Forests
Wilderness Areas
State historic sites
Public
preserves
The Nature
Conservacy
  • Accabonac Harbor
  • Andy Warhol Visual Arts
  • Arthur W. Butler Memorial
  • Atlantic Double Dunes
  • Bear Swamp
  • Calverton Ponds
  • Chaumont Barrens
  • Clintonville Pine Barrens
  • Coon Mountain
  • Deer Lick
  • Denton
  • El Dorado Beach
  • Eugene and Agnes Meyer
  • Everton Falls
  • Freund
  • Gadway Sandstone Pavement Barrens
  • Hannacroix Ravine
  • Henry Morgenthau
  • Indian Brook Assemblage
  • Ironsides Island
  • Kenrose
  • Limestone Rise
  • Lisha Kill
  • Long Island Center for Conservation
  • Long Pond
  • Lordsland
  • Lower Poultney River and Saddles
  • Marrion Yarrow
  • Mashomack
  • Mianus River Gorge
  • Mildred E. Grierson Memorial
  • Moccasin Kill
  • Montauk Mountain
  • Moss Lake
  • Mount Holly
  • Nellie Hill
  • Neversink
  • O.D. von Engeln
  • Otter Creek
  • Pawling
  • Peconic Estuary Big Woods
  • Pine Neck
  • Roger Perry Memorial
  • Ruth Wales
  • Schunemunk Mountain
  • Shadmoor
  • Silver Lake Bog
  • Spring Pond Bog
  • Stewart
  • Lewis A. Swyer
  • Thompson Pond and Stissing Mountain
  • Uplands Farm
  • West Branch
  • Whitbeck Memorial Grove
Other
preserves
Other (lists)


Stub icon

This article about a location in Clinton County, New York is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

  • v
  • t
  • e