Canoe-Picnic Point State Park
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Canoe Point and Picnic Point State Park is on Grindstone Island in the St. Lawrence River. This park in within the bounds of the Town of Clayton
in Jefferson County, New York
. The park is only accessible by boat.
The park offers a nature trail picnic tables and pavilions, cabins, dockage, fishing, hiking, seasonal waterfowl hunting, picnic tables, and a campground with tent sites.
Use rates for the Park are extremely cheap- a cabin rents for $250 per week, and because of this the park loses money. Rather than raise rates at this busy park to a sustainable level, the State of New York has elected to close it down.
Clayton (town), New York
Clayton is a town in Jefferson County, New York, USA. The population was 5,153 at the 2010 census. The town is named after John M. Clayton, a federal political leader from Delaware.The Town of Clayton contains a village named Clayton...
in Jefferson County, New York
Jefferson County, New York
Jefferson County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 116,229. It is named after Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States of America, and president at the time the county was created in 1805...
. The park is only accessible by boat.
The park offers a nature trail picnic tables and pavilions, cabins, dockage, fishing, hiking, seasonal waterfowl hunting, picnic tables, and a campground with tent sites.
Use rates for the Park are extremely cheap- a cabin rents for $250 per week, and because of this the park loses money. Rather than raise rates at this busy park to a sustainable level, the State of New York has elected to close it down.