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Silver Sands State Park is a public recreation area located on Long Island Sound in the city of Milford, Connecticut. [3] The state park consists of 297 acres (120 ha) of beach, dunes, restored salt marsh , open areas and woods as well as the 14-acre (5.7 ha) bird sanctuary of Charles Island . [ 4 ]
The State of Connecticut now owns the island and it is part of Silver Sands State Park. It is designated a Natural Area Preserve for the local bird population of herons and egrets . White-tail deer were common, but the estimated 16 deer on the island were hunted by the Department of Environment Protection (now the Department of Energy and ...
This is a list of state parks, reserves, forests and wildlife management areas (WMAs) in the Connecticut state park and forest system, shown in five tables. The first table lists state parks and reserves, the second lists state park trails, the third lists state forests, the fourth lists Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) and the fifth lists other state-owned, recreation-related areas.
Silver Sands, United Kingdom, a part of the River Thames; Silver Sands, Western Australia, a suburb of Mandurah, Western Australia; Silver Sands, Western Cape, a coastal town in South Africa; Silver Sands FC, a football club in Christ Church, Barbados; Silver Sands State Park, a recreation area in Milford, Connecticut, US
Hopeville Pond State Park [5] (not on shoreline) Guilford. Lake Quonnipaug; Jacob's Beach; Groton. Bluff Point Beach; Eastern Point Beach; Madison. Hammonasset Beach State Park [6] Milford. Gulf Beach; Silver Sands State Park [7] New Fairfield. New Fairfield Town Park (not on shoreline) Squantz Pond State Park (not on shoreline) New Haven ...
The Firehouse Art Gallery was recently opened in Devon. The beach resort quality of the town lives on, with several rocky beaches, Silver Sands State Park, the Connecticut Audubon Society Coastal Center at Milford Point, Charles Island, two golf courses, and numerous other recreational facilities available for residents and tourists.
A national monument until 2019, White Sands National Park is home to the largest gypsum dune field in the world – gypsum being a soft sulfate mineral used in materials like plaster. The 275 ...
The park bears the name of George Dudley Seymour (1859-1945), whose philanthropic efforts enabled the state to purchase land for this and several other Connecticut state parks. It is managed by the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection .