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Just a little more than 2 hours from Brooklyn in the Shawangunk Mountains is the amazing the Minnewaska State Park Preserve.
While they are working on the parking lots and improving accessibility, this doesn’t change the beauty of the lake and carriage roads once inside. Lake Minnewaska is perfect for walking beautiful carriage roads (it isn’t quite hiking as it is so easy and paved) with kids, having picnics, biking, and my favorite, cross country skiing. In the summer, you can swim in deep, cold water at a small beach with a lifeguard and in June the Mountain Laurel is everywhere and amazing. You can do technical rock climbing, but that isn’t something we have done there.
There are actually three sky lakes if you are willing to walk a bit further out and amazing bird watching. It’s New York’s largest state Park Preserve at 22,000 acres.
But be warned, this is carry in and carry out, there is no food or potable water once you are inside. Yet the loop around the primary lake is so easy and well used in the summer that it is the perfect option for the less adventurous or those with tiny walkers.
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In winter, the park is completely serene.
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$10 per car to enter.
While the official address is 5281 Route 44-55, Kerhonkson, NY 12446, the entrance is located on Route 44/55, five miles west of the intersection with Route 299 in Gardiner, New York.
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