Whetstone Gulf State Park is a
state park located in
Lewis County,
New York.
[ The park is on the edge of the Tug Hill Plateau, south of Lowville, on the border of the towns of ]Turin
Turin ( , Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital from 1861 to 1865. The ...
and Martinsburg. The east end of the park is located near New York State Route 26
New York State Route 26 (NY 26) is a north–south state highway that runs for through Central New York in the United States. Its southern terminus is located at the Pennsylvania state line south of the town of Vestal in Broom ...
.
Park description
The park is built in and around a , gorge cut into the eastern edge of the Tug Hill Plateau. Above the gorge is Whetstone Reservoir, stocked with tiger muskie
The tiger muskellunge (''Esox masquinongy × lucius'' or ''Esox lucius × masquinongy''), commonly called tiger muskie, is a carnivorous fish, and is the usually-sterile, hybrid offspring of the true muskellunge (''Esox masquinongy'') and the no ...
and largemouth bass
The largemouth bass (''Micropterus salmoides'') is a carnivorous freshwater gamefish in the Centrarchidae ( sunfish) family, a species of black bass native to the eastern and central United States, southeastern Canada and northern Mexico, bu ...
for fishermen.[
The park offers 62 campsites, 20 of which include electric hookups.][ Trails for hiking and cross-country skiing are found throughout the park, including a loop around the rim of the gorge.]
See also
* List of New York state parks
References
External links
New York State Parks: Whetstone Gulf State Park
Whetstone Gulf State Park trail map
State parks of New York (state)
Parks in Lewis County, New York
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