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| location = 1527 County Highway 31 <br/>Cooperstown, New York<ref name=NYSP_GettingThere>{{cite web |url=http://parks.ny.gov/parks/28/getting-there.aspx |title=Glimmerglass State Park - Getting There |publisher=NYS Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation |accessdate=July 23, 2015}}</ref> |
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| area = {{convert|593|acre|km2}}<ref name=RIoG_ParkStats>{{cite book |title=2014 New York State Statistical Yearbook |url=http://www.rockinst.org/nys_statistics/2014/2014_Yearbook_Section_O.pdf |publisher=The Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government |year=2014 |chapter=Section O: Environmental Conservation and Recreation, Table O-9 |page=672 |accessdate=February 14, 2016}}</ref> |
| area = {{convert|593|acre|km2}}<ref name=RIoG_ParkStats>{{cite book |title=2014 New York State Statistical Yearbook |url=http://www.rockinst.org/nys_statistics/2014/2014_Yearbook_Section_O.pdf |publisher=The Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government |year=2014 |chapter=Section O: Environmental Conservation and Recreation, Table O-9 |page=672 |accessdate=February 14, 2016}}</ref> |
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| created = {{Start date|1963}}<ref name=Hyde_papers>{{cite web |url=http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/RMM02800.html |title=Guide to the George Hyde Clarke Family Papers, 1705-1937. |website=Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections |publisher=Cornell University Library |date=2007 |accessdate=July 23, 2015}}</ref> |
| created = {{Start date|1963}}<ref name=Hyde_papers>{{cite web |url=http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/RMM02800.html |title=Guide to the George Hyde Clarke Family Papers, 1705-1937. |website=Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections |publisher=Cornell University Library |date=2007 |accessdate=July 23, 2015}}</ref> |
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Type | State park |
Location | 1527 County Highway 31 Cooperstown, New York[1] |
Nearest city | Cooperstown, New York |
Coordinates | 42°47′38″N 74°51′58″W / 42.794°N 74.866°W |
Area | 593 acres (2.40 km2)[2] |
Created | 1963[3] |
Operated by | New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation |
Visitors | 153,882 (in 2014)[4] |
Open | All year |
Website | Glimmerglass State Park |
Glimmerglass State Park is a 593-acre (2.40 km2) state park located north of Cooperstown, in Otsego County, New York, USA.[2] Most of the park is located inside the Town of Springfield.
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.[5]
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.[5]
See also
References
- ^ "Glimmerglass State Park - Getting There". NYS Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation. Retrieved July 23, 2015.
- ^ a b "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. 672. Retrieved February 14, 2016.
- ^ "Guide to the George Hyde Clarke Family Papers, 1705-1937". Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections. Cornell University Library. 2007. Retrieved July 23, 2015.
- ^ "State Park Annual Attendance Figures by Facility: Beginning 2003". Data.ny.gov. Retrieved July 23, 2015.
- ^ a b "Glimmerglass State Park". NYS Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation. Retrieved July 23, 2015.
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