Goosepond Mountain State Park, also Goose Pond Mountain State Park, is a 1,558-acre (631 ha) state park in Orange County, New York. The park is located within the Town of Chester and is administered by the Palisades Interstate Park Commission. A small section is accessible to casual hikers via a boardwalk, and there are extensive trails for hikers and horseback riders. Part of the area is wetland used as a bird sanctuary.
The loyalist leader Claudius Smith is said to have used a rock shelter in the area as a hideout during the American Revolutionary War.
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