| Glimmerglass State Park | |
|---|---|
 The covered bridge at Glimmerglass State Park in November 2004. | |
  Location of Glimmerglass State Park within New York State | |
| 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.[2] Most of the park is located inside the Town of Springfield.
Park description
[edit]Glimmerglass State Park is located at Hyde Bay on the east shore of Otsego Lake, which is the "Glimmerglass" lake of James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales. The Hyde Hall mansion overlooks the bay and most of the grounds.[1]
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.[1][5]
Triathlon
[edit]Until 2019 the park had hosted the Cooperstown/Glimmerglas triathlon for many years.[5][6]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Glimmerglass State Park". NYS Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation. Archived from the original on February 12, 2021. Retrieved September 22, 2016.
- ^ 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. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 16, 2015. Retrieved February 14, 2016.
- ^ "Guide to the George Hyde Clarke Family Papers, 1705-1937". Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections. Cornell University Library. 2007. Archived from the original on July 24, 2015. Retrieved July 23, 2015.
- ^ "State Park Annual Attendance Figures by Facility: Beginning 2003". Data.ny.gov. Archived from the original on May 28, 2015. Retrieved July 23, 2015.
- ^ a b Barbara Sinotte: New York and New Jersey Parks Guide. Hunter Publishing, ISBN 9781556507373, p. 33
- ^ https://www.trisignup.com/Race/NY/Cooperstown/CooperstownTriathlon2019 Archived September 26, 2021, at the Wayback Machine (retrieved 2021-09-26)
External links
[edit]- New York State Parks: Glimmerglass State Park Archived February 12, 2021, at the Wayback Machine
- Friends of Glimmerglass State Park Archived July 24, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
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