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  2. Long Island State Park Commission - Wikipedia

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    Jones Beach State Park in Wantagh, New York, in 2021. The LISPC was created in 1924 by the New York State Legislature to build and operate parks & parkways on Long Island. [2] [3] [4] Governor Al Smith was appointed as its first President, and Robert Moses, who had drafted the bill creating the agency, served until 1953.

  3. Robert Moses State Park - Wikipedia

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    Robert Moses State Park - Long Island is a 875-acre (3.54 km 2) state park in southern Suffolk County, New York. [3] The park lies on the western end of Fire Island, one of the central barrier islands off the southern coast of Long Island, and is known for its five-mile (8.0 km) stretch of beaches on the Atlantic Ocean.

  4. List of New York state parks - Wikipedia

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    Belmont Lake State Park: Long Island: Suffolk: 463 acres (187 ha) 1926 [26] 578,226: Belmont Lake: Day-use only. Formerly hosted the headquarters of the Long Island State Park Commission. [26] Bethpage State Park: Long Island: Nassau, Suffolk: 1,477 acres (598 ha) 1934 [27]: 21 795,563

  5. Millinocket, Maine - Wikipedia

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    Millinocket is the closest town to Mount Katahdin, in Baxter State Park, 20 miles (32 km) to the northwest. At an elevation of 5,270 feet (1,610 m), its summit is the highest point in Maine and the northern terminus of the Appalachian Trail. Millinocket Stream flows through the town, from Millinocket Lake north of the town into the West Branch ...

  6. Jones Beach State Park - Wikipedia

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    The park was created during Robert Moses' administration as President of the Long Island State Park Commission as part of the development of parkways on Long Island. [7] The park, 6.5 miles (10.5 km) in length, [1] is renowned for its beaches (which, excepting the beach on Zachs Bay, [8] [9] face the open Atlantic Ocean) and furnishes one of ...

  7. Belmont Lake State Park - Wikipedia

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    Belmont Lake State Park was established in 1926 on land that was formerly part of the "Nursery Stud Farm", a Thoroughbred horse farm owned by August Belmont, namesake of the Belmont Stakes. [1][5] The park was selected by Robert Moses as regional headquarters for all state parks on Long Island in 1935. [1] The park served as the headquarters of ...

  8. Sunken Meadow State Park - Wikipedia

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    Sunken Meadow State Park, also known as Governor Alfred E. Smith State Park, is a 1,287-acre (5.21 km 2) state park [2] located in the Town of Smithtown in Suffolk County, New York on the north shore of Long Island. The park, accessible via the Sunken Meadow State Parkway, contains the 27-hole Sunken Meadow State Park Golf Course.

  9. Heckscher State Park - Wikipedia

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    Operated by. New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Visitors. 982,530 (in 2014) [4] Open. All year. Website. Heckscher State Park. Heckscher State Park is a 1,657-acre (6.71 km 2) state park [2] on the shore of the Great South Bay at East Islip in Suffolk County, New York, USA.