Glimmerglass State Park

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Glimmerglass State Park
Glimmerglass State Park covered bridge.jpg
The covered bridge at Glimmerglass State Park in November 2004.
Glimmerglass State Park is located in New York
Glimmerglass State Park
Location of Glimmerglass State Park within New York State
Type State park
Location 1527 County Highway 31
Cooperstown, New York[1]
Nearest city Cooperstown, New York
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Area 600 acres (2.4 km2)[2]
Created 1963 (1963)[2]
Operated by New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation
Visitors 153,882 (in 2014)[3]
Open All year
Website Glimmerglass State Park

Glimmerglass State Park is a 600-acre (2.4 km2) state park located north of Cooperstown, in Otsego County, New York, USA. 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" of James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales. The Hyde Hall mansion overlooks the bay and most of the grounds.[4]

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.[4]

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References

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