Wildwood State Park is a state park located in Suffolk County, New York. The park is in the Town of Riverhead on the north shore of Long Island. The park includes a beach on Long Island Sound.
The park offers a beach, a playground, picnic tables, hiking and biking, fishing, a campground with tent and trailer sites, cross-country skiing, recreation programs and a food concession.
History The Long Island State Park Commission acquired Wildwood State Park in 1925, during the early development of the state park system on Long Island.
Natural features About 600 acres (240 ha) of the park consist of undeveloped hardwood forest. The forest extends to a high bluff overlooking Long Island Sound.
Recreation The park provides tent and trailer camping as well as ten three-season cottages, three of which are accessible. Recreational activities include swimming, fishing, hiking, biking, cross-country skiing, snowshoeing and stand-up paddleboarding.
A 461-acre (187 ha) portion of the park is managed cooperatively by New York State Parks and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation for permitted archery deer hunting.
See also List of New York state parks
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New York State Parks: Wildwood State Park Wildwood State Park (Wandering Around the Block)