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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.
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
Prospect Point at the Niagara Reservation, c. 1900.The reservation, known today as Niagara Falls State Park, was the first park opened by New York State.. State-level procurement and management of parks in New York began in 1883, when then-governor Grover Cleveland signed legislation authorizing the appropriation of lands near Niagara Falls for a "state reservation".
Officers of the Long Island State Parkway Police were given the option of transferring to either the State Police or the State Park Police. Headquartered at Belmont Lake State Park in North Babylon, the New York State Park Police currently patrols 25,000 acres (101 km 2) of parkland in Nassau and Suffolk Counties. [1]
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. [5]
The site of this park was obtained by Scenic Hudson in 2019 [3] and transferred to the state at a cost of $13.5 million, which was funded through the state's Environmental Protection Fund. Prior to its designation as a park, the site was used for industries such as cement production, brick making, quarrying, and ice harvesting. [4]
Additionally, about 280 bird species can be observed in the park. [7] The park is accessible by the Heckscher State Parkway, and falls within the district protected by the Great River Fire Department. The Long Island Greenbelt Trail starts its 31-mile (50 km) route in Heckscher State Park. It ends in Sunken Meadow State Park.
Robert Moses State Park – Thousand Islands is a 2,322-acre (9.40 km 2) state park located on Barnhart Island in the Saint Lawrence River and the adjacent mainland in the Town of Massena in St. Lawrence County, New York. [1] [3] The park is north of the Village of Massena, near the Canada–US border.