Long Point State Park on Lake Chautauqua
Template:Short description Template:Distinguish Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox park Long Point State Park (on Chautauqua Lake) is a Template:Convert state park<ref name=RIoG_PS/> located in the Town of Ellery, near the hamlet of Maple Springs in Chautauqua County, New York. The park is located on a short peninsula on the east side of the lake and can be reached on Route 430.
History
The park was formed from two gifts of former estates on Chautauqua Lake. The first estate was donated to New York State in 1956 by Mr. and Mrs. John W. Minturn; Mrs. Minturn was the granddaughter of former state governor Reuben E. Fenton. The park was expanded several years later with the gift of the summer estate of Bainbridge Colby, former United States Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson.<ref name=50years_p34/>
Facilities
The park offers a beach, a playground, picnic tables and pavilions, a nature trail, showers, fishing, a boat launch with marine pump-out station, and cross-country skiing and snowmobiling.<ref name=NYSP_main/>
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