Type State park Created 1956 (1956) Phone +1 716-386-2722 | Area 360 acres (1.5 km) Visitors 62,034 (in 2014) | |
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Location 4459 Route 430
Bemus Point, New York Operated by New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Address 4459 NY-430, Bemus Point, NY 14712, USA Similar Conesus Lake Boat Launch, Canandaigua Lake State Marine P, Lake Erie State Park, Silver Lake State Park, Eel Weir State Park | ||
Long Point State Park (on Chautauqua Lake) is a 360-acre (1.5 km2) state park located in the Town of Ellery, near the hamlet of Maple Springs in Chautauqua County, New York. The park is located on a short peninsula on the east side of the lake and can be reached on Route 430.
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History
The park was formed from two gifts of former estates on Chautauqua Lake. The first estate was donated to New York State in 1956 by Mr. and Mrs. John W. Minturn; Mrs. Minturn was the granddaughter of former state governor Reuben E. Fenton. The park was expanded several years later with the gift of the summer estate of Bainbridge Colby, former United States Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson.
Facilities
The park offers a beach, a playground, picnic tables and pavilions, a nature trail, showers, fishing, a boat launch with marine pump-out station, and cross-country skiing and snowmobiling.