Type State park Area 593 acres (2.40 km) Phone +1 607-547-8662 | Nearest city Cooperstown, New York Created 1963 (1963) | |
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Location 1527 County Highway 31
Cooperstown, New York Operated by New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Address 1527 Co Rd 31, Cooperstown, NY 13326, USA Similar Hyde Hall, Farmers' Museum, Feni Art Museum, Betty and Wilbur Davis Sta, Delta Lake State Park | ||
Glimmerglass state park
Glimmerglass State Park is a 593-acre (2.40 km2) state park located north of Cooperstown, in Otsego County, New York. Most of the park is located inside the Town of Springfield.
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Glimmerglass state park
Park description
Glimmerglass State Park is located at Hyde Bay on the east shore of Otsego Lake, which is the "Glimmerglass" of James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales. The Hyde Hall mansion overlooks the bay and most of the grounds.
The park offers a beach, picnic tables with pavilions, a playground, recreation programs, a nature trail, hiking and biking, fishing and ice fishing, a campground with tent and trailer sites, ice skating, cross-country skiing and snowmobiling and a food concession. The park is open year-round.
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