Glimmerglass State Park
Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox park Glimmerglass State Park is a Template:Convert state park located north of Cooperstown, in Otsego County, New York.<ref name=RIoG_ParkStats/> 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" lake of James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales. The Hyde Hall mansion overlooks the bay and most of the grounds.<ref name=NYSP_main/>
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.<ref name=NYSP_main/><ref name="Sinotte">Barbara Sinotte: New York and New Jersey Parks Guide. Hunter Publishing, ISBN 9781556507373, p. 33</ref>
Triathlon
Until 2019 the park had hosted the Cooperstown/Glimmerglas triathlon for many years.<ref name="Sinotte"/><ref>https://www.trisignup.com/Race/NY/Cooperstown/CooperstownTriathlon2019 Template:Webarchive (retrieved 2021-09-26)</ref>
See also
References
External links
- New York State Parks: Glimmerglass State Park Template:Webarchive
- Friends of Glimmerglass State Park Template:Webarchive