Valley Stream State Park

State park in the U.S. state of New York

Valley Stream State Park
The entrance to Valley Stream State Park from the eastbound Southern State Parkway.

Type	State park
Location	Valley Stream, New York, United States
Area	97 acres (39 ha)
Opened	1928
Owned by	State of New York
Operated by	New York State Department of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation
Parking	Yes
Website	parks.ny.gov/parks/159/details.aspx

Valley Stream State Park is a 97-acre (39 ha) state park^[1] located in the Incorporated Village of Valley Stream, in Nassau County, on Long Island, in New York, United States. It is one of three state parks located within the Town of Hempstead.

Park description

Valley Stream State Park is a day-use facility, convenient to the Southern State Parkway (exit 15A). The park offers a nature trail, cross-country skiing, a playground and playing fields, horseshoe, volleyball, basketball, and bocce ball courts, picnic tables and pavilions, fireplaces and grills, and recreation programs. Pets are not permitted.^[2]

Like Hempstead Lake State Park, Valley Stream State Park contained Cornell's Pond, a feeder reservoir for the Ridgewood Reservoir.^[2]

History

This park opened in 1928 together with Southern State Parkway, Hempstead Lake State Park, Belmont Lake State Park, and Heckscher State Park. Initially the park included Cornell's Pond, which had a freshwater beach that charged an admission fee of 10 cents. Crowded and unsanitary conditions led local residents to lobby for its closing in 1947. In 1958, the state to transferred the park's southern portion with this pond to the Village of Valley Stream. It reopened as the village-operated Arthur J. Hendrickson Park.^[3]

References

^ "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. 674. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 16, 2015. Retrieved April 2, 2016.
^ ^a ^b "Valley Stream State Park". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Retrieved April 2, 2016.
^ Kadinsky, Sergey (January 9, 2019). "Valley Stream, NY; Hidden Waters Blog". Retrieved September 13, 2019.

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New York State Parks: Valley Stream State Park
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v t e Town of Hempstead, New York
County	Nassau
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