Golden Hill State Park is located in the northeast corner of the Town of Somerset in Niagara County, New York, USA. The park is on the south shore of Lake Ontario, north of Lower Lake Road near Thirty Mile Point Light.
The park offers picnic tables with pavilions, a playground and playing fields, recreation programs, a nature trail, hiking and biking, fishing and ice fishing, a boat launch, seasonal small game and waterfowl huning, a campground with tent and trailer sites, ice skating, cross-country skiing, snowmobiling and disc golf.
Gift Cards can be purchased for camping purposes. Gift cards can be purchased and redeemed at most New York State Parks.
In 2005, Golden Hill was named one of Reserve America's Top Outdoor locations.
Famous quotes containing the words golden, hill, state and/or park:
“But when the bowels of the earth were sought,
And men her golden entrails did espy,
This mischief then into the world was brought,
This framed the mint which coined our misery.
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And thus began th’exordium of our woes,
The fatal dumb-show of our misery;
Here sprang the tree on which our mischief grows,
The dreary subject of world’s tragedy.”
—Michael Drayton (1563–1631)
“Cole’s Hill was the scene of the secret night burials of those who died during the first year of the settlement. Corn was planted over their graves so that the Indians should not know how many of their number had perished.”
—For the State of Massachusetts, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“The present war having so long cut off all communication with Great-Britain, we are not able to make a fair estimate of the state of science in that country. The spirit in which she wages war is the only sample before our eyes, and that does not seem the legitimate offspring either of science or of civilization.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“Is a park any better than a coal mine? What’s a mountain got that a slag pile hasn’t? What would you rather have in your garden—an almond tree or an oil well?”
—Jean Giraudoux (1882–1944)