Posted in Cedar point country park, is one of the best camping ground in New York, every visitor leaving there always got a good impression on it. This park is open to both local people or tourists. The price was $24 for non-residents and $14 for Suffolk County residents with the yearly $20 park reservation pass. This happens to be a county park on 607 acres. Beaches are the view on the north eastern side of the park. Four wheel drive access is allowed in some areas with a permit.
Beach is the finest part of the park. There are stretches of beach that are easily accessible by short walk from a small parking lot. Most beaches are also within a short walk from the sites but are a bit far when you have to carry gear.
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Another park that serve as a quiet oasis for rest and contemplation, also has function as educational, cultural, and horticultural activities. Garden park of Planting Fields’ cultivated gardens, rolling lawns and natural woodlands provide a unique and valuable resource for its community and for visitors from New York City and other areas.
The focal point of the Arboretum is Coe Hall, a magnificent Tudor-Revival Mansion from the Gold Coast era. Its architecture reflects the style popular during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Tours are available for both individuals and groups.
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Montauk Lighthouse is the oldest lighthouse in New York area. Ordered by the latest American President, George Washington in 1972, the construction began at the year of 1976, and it also became one of the fourth active lighthouse in the states. This lighthouse height enforce light flashes every 5 seconds and can be seen a distance of 19 nautical miles.
These days, Montauk Lighthouse has one other functionality, which is as a museum. Museum itself contain with photograph of the lighthouse itself, and other gifts and merchandiser. A society also born in this lighthouse, Montauk Historical society. This society concerning about crafts and arts.
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These area comes from an idea of Harry Guggenheim on providing a place for homes of wide variety animals and birds.
Currently Sands Point has become famous for providing Special Exhibitions that are also enjoyable for all ages. The recent Masters of the Night: The True Story of Bats, for example, was composed of modular sections which create environmentally lifelike, yet theatrical settings, integrating special effects. A few of the components included an 18th Century Neo-Gothic Portal: examples of bat art, folklore and myth; Upside-Down Myth Gallery: visitors view the world as a bat sees it; Portrait Hall: spectacular bat portrait photography. Many other exhibits, including hands-on, interactive displays add up to a comprehensive, enjoyable presentation that people of all ages will want to see again.
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Sagamore Hill is one of the 26th President of the United States of America, Theodore Roosevelt. He’s been living in there for thirty years and filled his daily activities with education learning. This Queen Anne mansion built in 1885 in Oyster Bay, from 1902 until 1908 this house became focus of international attention cause of its owner activities. The name Sagamore Hill itself comes after Sagamore Mohannis the Indian Chief, who once owned the land, was also called the “Summer White House” because Roosevelt was the first President to run the country away from the white house.
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