Valley Stream State Park

The entrance to Valley Stream State Park from eastbound Southern State Parkway.

Valley Stream State Park is a 97-acre (0.39 km²) state park^[1] located in the village of Valley Stream in Nassau County, New York. The park is one of three state parks located in the Town of Hempstead on Long Island. Like Hempstead Lake State Park, Valley Stream State Park originated as a feeder reservoir for the Ridgewood Reservoir.

Valley Stream State Park is a day-use facility, convenient to the Southern State Parkway (exit 15A). The park offers a nature trail, cross-country skiing, a playground and playing fields, horseshoe, volleyball, basketball, and bocce ball courts, picnic tables and pavilions, fireplaces and grills, and recreation programs. Pets are not permitted.^[2]

References

↑ "Section O: Environmental Conservation and Recreation, Table O-9". 2014 New York State Statistical Yearbook (PDF). The Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government. 2014. p. 674. Retrieved April 2, 2016.
↑ "Valley Stream State Park". NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Retrieved April 2, 2016.

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Villages	Atlantic Beach Bellerose Cedarhurst East Rockaway Floral Park Freeport Garden City Hempstead Hewlett Bay Park Hewlett Harbor Hewlett Neck Island Park Lawrence Lynbrook Malverne Mineola New Hyde Park Rockville Centre South Floral Park Stewart Manor Valley Stream Woodsburgh

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CDPs	Elmont Lakeview Malverne Park/Malverne Oaks North Bellmore North Merrick North Valley Stream North Wantagh

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Coordinates: 40°40′44″N 73°41′38″W / 40.679°N 73.694°W / 40.679; -73.694

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