Napeague State Park

Coordinates: 40°59′23″N 72°04′37″W / 40.9897°N 72.0769°W / 40.9897; -72.0769
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Napeague State Park
Town of East Hampton
Suffolk County, New York
Coordinates40°59′23″N 72°04′37″W / 40.9897°N 72.0769°W / 40.9897; -72.0769
Area1,364 acres (5.52 km2)[1]
Operated byNew York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation
Visitors65,985 (in 2014)[2]
OpenAll year

Napeague State Park is a 1,364-acre (5.52 km2)

East Hampton in Suffolk County, New York.[1] The largely undeveloped park stretches across the entire narrow width of the South Fork of Long Island from the Atlantic Ocean to Gardiners Bay and Block Island Sound. The park is located on either side of the Montauk Highway (New York Route 27) on the "Napeague Stretch" between Amagansett and Montauk. The hamlet of Napeague
is located on the park's edge.

History

Napeague State Park's land was initially purchased by the

Great Hurricane of 1938
.

Napeague was the location of the crash of American Airlines Flight 1502 in 1961, resulting in the deaths of 6 aboard.

Description

There is virtually no infrastructure or permitted camping at the park, which is administered by nearby Hither Hills State Park. Its most distinguishing natural feature, a pristine Atlantic Ocean beach, is usually closed during the summer because the endangered piping plover nests near the beach.

A landmark within the park is the huge abandoned Smith Meal fish factory in an area on Gardiners Bay called Promised Land. A controversy rages[

Town of East Hampton has so far successfully fought any proposal to start ferry service there.[citation needed
]

See also

References

  1. ^ 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. 673. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 16, 2015. Retrieved March 6, 2016.
  2. ^ "State Park Annual Attendance Figures by Facility: Beginning 2003". Data.ny.gov. Retrieved November 11, 2016.
  3. ^ Napeague State Park (New York-New Jersey-Connecticut Botany Online)
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