More then one out of every 5 acres in NY State is publicly owned and is used as parkland. Here are a series of maps of various regions of NY State showing the boundaries and classifications of various types of land.
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New York State Boat Launch Sites
Looking for a place to put in a kayak, motor boat, or maybe something even bigger in NY State? The DEC has a Google Map for you!
You can zoom into particular rivers to see what boat launches are on them. Clicking on icons, displays the number of parking spots, the type of boats that can be launched on the river, and other details.
You can also download this file for Google Earth or import it into your GIS program.
Cheney Pond
Cheney Pond Road is a dirt road off of Boreas Road, about 15 miles east of Newcomb. It is a rough road, with the pass year’s washouts, don’t try it without a truck. It will take you a rather pretty lake and damed up river you can paddle around.
Here is a printable map you can click to see full size then download.
And now down as Cheney Pond…
If you want to spend the night, you can roadside camp at a site with a picnic table and outhouse, tent camp at an “informal” campsite with a fire pit near the lean-to or camp in the lean-to. None of the campsites at Vanderwhacker Wild Forest have “Camp Here Disks”.
Heading out on the lake in the kayak…
