Beaver Island State Park

Beaver Island State Park
The beach at Beaver Island State Park in June 2015. Fort Erie, Ontario is visible across the Niagara River.
Beaver Island State Park is located in New York
Beaver Island State Park
Location of Beaver Island State Park within New York State
TypeState park
LocationGrand Island, New York
Coordinates42°58′N 78°57′W / 42.96°N 78.95°W / 42.96; -78.95
Area952 acres (3.85 km2)[1]
Created1935 (1935)[2]
Operated byNew York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation
Visitors340,781 (in 2020)[3]
OpenAll year

Beaver Island State Park is a New York state park located on Grand Island in northwestern Erie County, New York in the United States.[4] It is situated at the southern end of the island on the bank of the Niagara River and served by the Beaver Island Parkway, a 2.72-mile (4.38 km) highway linking the park to Interstate 190 (I-190).

Included within the park is the Beaver Island State Park Golf Course, a USGA-recognized championship 18-hole, par-72 public golf course.[5]

The park is 1 of 80 New York State Parks that are in the path of totality for the 2024 solar eclipse, with 3 minutes and 43 seconds of totality.[6]

  1. ^ "Section O: Environmental Conservation and Recreation, Table O-9". 2014 New York State Statistical Yearbook (PDF). The Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government. 2014. p. 671. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 16, 2015. Retrieved April 8, 2016.
  2. ^ Carpenter, Gerald; Crawford, June Justice (2015). Grand Island: Images of America Series. Arcadia Publishing. p. 10. ISBN 9781467121309. Retrieved January 1, 2016.
  3. ^ "State Park Annual Attendance Figures by Facility: Beginning 2003". Data.ny.gov. Retrieved March 22, 2021.
  4. ^ "Beaver Island State Park". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved December 28, 2015.
  5. ^ "Beaver Island State Park Golf Course". Parks.ny.gov. NYS Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation. Retrieved November 15, 2015.
  6. ^ R, Mike (September 22, 2021). "New York 2024 Eclipse State Parks Resources". CosmosPNW. Retrieved October 3, 2022.