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Goose Pond Mountain State Park is a 1,706-acre undeveloped New York state park. The park includes five acres of man-made wetlands constructed by the New York State Department of Transportation as compensation for wetlands that were destroyed when the nearby highway interchange was built.

The park is administered by the Palisades Interstate Park Commission, but it doesn’t look like it is routinely maintained. The sign at the entrance to the nature trail is overgrown as is the trail itself.

I stopped here with my dog while in the area on an errand. We walked as far as we could down the nature trail before it became thoroughly choked with brush and wildflowers. We noticed some birdhouses that looked fairly new…the park is considered a bird sanctuary.

According to the map at the entrance, when there is less vegetation, the nature trail is a loop with a boardwalk section at the far end.

Location: 1198 NY-17M, Chester, New York
Designation: State Park
Date designated/established: 1960
Date of my visit: August 4, 2019