Embrace Upstate's Most Beautiful Parks

This 950-acre park has a half-mile sandy beach for swimming, an adjacent 80- slip marina, an 18-hole championship golf course and more...

Buttermilk Falls takes its name from the foaming cascade formed by Buttermilk Creek, which descends 500 feet and forms a natural pool for swimming.

The first state park in the city of Buffalo, Buffalo Harbor offers beautiful views of Lake Erie and adjacent to the popular Tifft Nature Preserve.

Located on Grindstone Island, Canoe-Picnic Point State Park is only reachable by boat and offers a quiet camping experience in a wooded area.

This 1,845-acre state park is a nice mix of hills, beautiful woodlands, ravines and streams yet it is only 3.9 miles from the exciting Darien Lake Theme Park Resort.

Chittenango Falls State Park features a spectacular 167-foot waterfall cascading over 400-million-year-old bedrock to flow under a scenic wooden bridge.

Clark Reservation State Park's natural features include rugged cliffs and rocky outcrops, woodland and meadow, a wetland and a glacial meromictic lake.

Located minutes from Fair Haven, Fair Haven Beach State Park has one of the finest public lakefronts in Upstate NY.

The Catskill Park features more than 700,000 acres of enchanting wilderness located within the Catskill Mountains of New York State.

Nearly 2,500 acres, Grafton Lakes State Park is situated between the Taconic and Hudson Valleys and features six ponds for fishing, canoeing, kayaking and sailing.

Perched on the magnificent St. Lawrence River, Keewaydin offers many prime campsites overlooking the river along with excellent boating and fishing.

Set in a peaceful wooded setting, Robert H. Treman State Park teems with wild, natural beauty, winding trails following a rugged gorge and 12 waterfalls...

Saratoga Spa State Park is a National Historic Landmark with mineral springs offering soothing mineral baths in its bath and spa houses.

One of Upstate New York's most gorgeous and unique parks, Chimney Bluffs shows off strange rock formations and spires.

Just 8 miles south of Henderson Harbor, Southwick Beach State Park on Great Lake Ontario is known for its inviting, warm sandy beach.

Overlooking the Niagara Whirlpool on the Niagara River, this park offers a playground, picnic tables and pavilions, hiking and biking, a nature trail and more...

The amazing Adirondacks offer the highest peaks in New York State and in winter, this huge park becomes a snow covered playground, offering as many activities as in the summer - maybe more!

While visitors flock to the park in the summer for hiking, biking and water fun, the winter also offers exciting activities like cross-country skiing, snowshoeing and snowmobiling...

Just 6 miles east of the village of Seneca Falls, Cayuga Lake State Park is a 188-acre state park located on the north end of the lake, which offers great ice fishing in the winter

Winona Forest is a 9,233-acre state forest that offers diverse opportunities for year-round recreational fun.

Perched on the magnificent St. Lawrence River, Keewaydin State Park provides winter fun like ice fishing and cross-country skiing.

Renowned as the “Grand Canyon of the East,” Letchworth State Park is one of the most magnificent and scenic places in the eastern U.S. any time of the year ..

See this natural wonder transformed into a winter enchantment like no other. Framed by icicles and surrounded by a frozen mist, ice buildups help create an illusion of frozen falls.

Nestled in rugged mountains rising from the west bank of the Hudson River, Bear Mountain State Park offers plenty to do no matter what the season.

Nestled among the Adirondack foothills, Higley Flow State Park offers winter enthusiasts plenty of snowy fun like snowmobiling, snowshoeing, cross-country skiing and ice fishing.

This 577-acre park is ideal for hiking and bird watching as well as cross-country skiing and snowshoeing. It also has one of our two legal off-leash Dog Parks in the County Park system.

This 950-acre park offers a sandy beach for summer fun, but in winter, visitors can enjoy snowmobiling, cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, sledding and ice fishing!

Along a wide variety of summer activities, the park becomes a winter lover’s paradise with ice fishing, skating, snowshoeing and cross-country skiing.