Cummings Park is located in

Stamford, Connecticut Stamford () is a city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, outside of New York City. It is the sixth-most populous city in New England. Stamford is also the largest city in the Western Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut, Weste ...

, US. It is made up of about 79

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s (320,000 m²) of shorefront property on

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. The main attraction of the park is Cummings Beach, which once had a seasonal harbor seal colony of which only a white marble seal statue is left. The park also has a playfield, four baseball fields, several basketball and tennis courts, rest rooms, a seasonal cafe, and a hillside that is popular among locals for winter sledding. A public marina, boat launch, and fishing pier are also located there. Cummings Park is administered by the City of Stamford which sells monthly passes for parking access. It is named after

Homer Stille Cummings Homer Stille Cummings (April 30, 1870 – September 10, 1956) was an American lawyer and politician who was the United States attorney general from 1933 to 1939. He also was elected mayor of Stamford, Connecticut, three times before founding th ...

, a former mayor of Stamford who was active in Democratic politics and later worked for

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. He lived in town for most of his life and often went to the shoreline there for walking.

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Geography of Stamford, Connecticut

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