Glimmerglass_State_Park

Glimmerglass State Park

Glimmerglass State Park

State Park in Otsego County, New York


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.

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Park description

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

Until 2019 the park had hosted the Cooperstown/Glimmerglas triathlon for many years.[5][6]

See also


References

  1. "Glimmerglass State Park". NYS Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation. Retrieved September 22, 2016.
  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. 672. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 16, 2015. Retrieved February 14, 2016.
  3. "Guide to the George Hyde Clarke Family Papers, 1705-1937". Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections. Cornell University Library. 2007. Retrieved July 23, 2015.
  4. Barbara Sinotte: New York and New Jersey Parks Guide. Hunter Publishing, ISBN 9781556507373, p. 33



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