New Yorkers can greet 2020 with a choice of 85 guided hikes at state parks and public lands, including the state’s historic sites.
Now in its ninth year, the annual First Day Hikes program includes a variety of events, from hikes to fire towers in the Adirondacks/Catskills, along parts of the historic New York City drinking water system in the Hudson Valley, waterfalls in the Finger Lakes region and historic forts along the Great Lakes, and more. [Read more…] about Celebrate Historic Sites With A First Day Hike
A 2018 survey of New Yorks State parks and historic sites’ Friends organizations details the support and programs these groups provide to the state parks system. Among the findings, is that Friends groups raised more than $17 million in private funds, and contributed nearly 132,000 hours of volunteer labor.
The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation has released a request for proposals (RFP) for private-sector businesses to partner in the adaptive reuse, improvement and/or operation in Knox Farm State Park, located in East Aurora, Erie County, NY.
The New York State Police, the New York State Park Police and the Governor’s Traffic Safety Committee have partnered for “BUNY in the Parks,” an enforcement and educational campaign to ensure that visiting motorists and their passengers properly buckle-up their seatbelts while traveling inside state parks, and to teach the importance of properly securing our youngest visitors in approved child safety seats.
The Office of State History, in partnership with the National Park Service, the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, and the Institute for Thomas Paine Studies at Iona College began facilitating planning meetings to discuss New York’s commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution. 
The New Windsor Cantonment State Historic Site and National Temple Hill Association is set to present a night of Revolutionary War military drills, musket firings and other period activities on Saturday June 1, from 7 to 9:30 pm. 
The Office of Parks Recreation and Historic Preservation (State Parks) and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) are preparing a Unit Management Plan (UMP) for both the Crown Point State Historic Site and the Crown Point Campground and Day Use Area.
The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (State Parks) has announced it acquired a historically significant site of a War of 1812 battle between British and American forces.