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December 8, 2009. Orchard Beach State Park is a public recreation area covering 201 acres (81 ha) on the shore of Lake Michigan in Manistee Township, Manistee County, Michigan. Situated on a bluff three miles north of the city of Manistee, the state park offers camping, hiking trails, and scenic views over Lake Michigan.
Orchard Beach (sometimes called the Bronx Riviera) is the only public beach in the New York City borough of the Bronx. The 115-acre (47 ha), 1.1-mile-long (1.8 km) beach is part of Pelham Bay Park and is situated on the western end of Long Island Sound. The beach consists of a 13-section sandy shorefront, a hexagonal-block promenade, and a ...
Pelham Bay Park. / 40.86556°N 73.80833°W / 40.86556; -73.80833. Pelham Bay Park is a municipal park located in the northeast corner of the New York City borough of the Bronx. It is, at 2,772 acres (1,122 ha), [a] the largest public park in New York City. The park is more than three times the size of Manhattan 's Central Park.
Old Orchard Beach, Maine. / 43.51361°N 70.38528°W / 43.51361; -70.38528. Old Orchard Beach is a resort town in York County, Maine, United States. The population was 8,960 at the 2020 census. [ 3] It is part of the Portland − South Portland − Biddeford, Maine Metropolitan Statistical Area . Located on the inner side of Saco Bay on ...
Hart Island, sometimes referred to as Hart's Island, [a] is located at the western end of Long Island Sound, in the northeastern Bronx in New York City. Measuring approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) long by 0.33 miles (0.53 km) wide, Hart Island is part of the Pelham Islands archipelago and is east of City Island .
In 1905 the New York City Parks Department opened a campsite at Rodman's Neck ... Orchard Beach was a small part of Rodman's Neck. The current Orchard Beach recreational area was created through the efforts of Robert Moses in 1934 ...." -- Wikipedia: Date: 1 January 1912, 00:00: Source: Campsite, Orchard Beach, The Bronx -- 1912: Author
Michigan's state parks system was started in 1919. Three Michigan state parks pre-date the creation of the park system in 1919: Mackinac Island State Park (1895), Michilimackinac State Park (1909) and Interlochen State Park (1917). Mackinac Island State Park was created in 1895. It had served as the nation's second national park for two decades ...
November 4, 2005. Letchworth State Park is a 14,427-acre (5,838 ha) New York State Park located in Livingston County and Wyoming County in the western part of the State of New York. [1] [5] The park is roughly 17 miles (27 km) long, following the course of the Genesee River as it flows north through a deep gorge and over several large ...