Chenango Valley State Park

Chenango Valley State Park

Location of Chenango Valley State Park within New York State

Type State park
Location 153 State Park Road
Chenango Forks, New York[1]
Nearest city Binghamton, New York
Coordinates 42°12′54″N 75°49′48″W / 42.215°N 75.83°W / 42.215; -75.83Coordinates: 42°12′54″N 75°49′48″W / 42.215°N 75.83°W / 42.215; -75.83
Area 1,137 acres (4.60 km2)[2]
Operated by New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation
Visitors 173,960 (in 2014)[3]
Open All year
Camp sites 184
Website Chenango Valley State Park

Chenango Valley State Park is a 1,137-acre (4.60 km2) state park located in Broome County, New York in the United States.[2][4] The park is located adjacent to the Chenango River in western part of the Town of Fenton.

The park includes the 18-hole Chenango Valley State Park Golf Course.

Park description

Chenango Valley State Park offers a beach, picnic tables with pavilions, a playground, recreation programs, a 184-site campground, 24 cabins, sledding, a boat launch with boat rentals, and a food concession. Trails are available for hiking, biking, and cross-country skiing.[1]

The park includes forested and wetland habitats; forested areas contain populations of woodpeckers, nuthatches, warblers and thrushes, while the lake and wetland areas host herons, ducks and kingfishers.[1] The mature woodlands are noted for a particularly large number of pileated woodpeckers. For anglers, Chenango Lake includes trout, bass, perch and bullhead.[1]

Two kettle lakes, Chenango Lake and Lily Lake, are found within the park. The lakes were formed as glaciers receded at the end of the most recent ice age.[5]

The Chenango Valley State Park Golf Course is located within the park. The course, originally constructed as a 9-hole course by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s, was expanded to its current 18-hole size in 1967.[6]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Chenango Valley State Park". NYS Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation. Retrieved November 9, 2015.
  2. 1 2 "Section O: Environmental Conservation and Recreation, Table O-9". 2014 New York State Statistical Yearbook (PDF). The Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government. 2014. p. 671. Retrieved April 9, 2016.
  3. ↑ "State Park Annual Attendance Figures by Facility: Beginning 2003". Data.ny.gov. Retrieved November 9, 2015.
  4. ↑ "Chenango Valley State Park". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved November 9, 2015.
  5. ↑ "Chenango Valley State Park". NYS Department of Environmental Conservation. Retrieved November 9, 2015.
  6. ↑ "Chenango Valley State Park Golf Course". NYS Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation. Retrieved November 9, 2015.


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 9/4/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.