The Jones Beach State Park, Causeway and Parkway System is a national

historic district A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains historic building, older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal p ...

located in Nassau County,

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, United States.

Description

The historic district encompasses

Jones Beach State Park Jones Beach State Park (colloquially "Jones Beach") is a state park in the U.S. state of New York. It is located in southern Nassau County on Jones Beach Island, a barrier island linked to Long Island by the Meadowbrook State Parkway, Wantag ...

and many of the related causeways and parkways built by

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to connect to it. Furthermore, the district consists of a total of 22 buildings and 33 structures. The causeways and parkways landmarked as part of the district are the portions of the Meadowbrook &

Wantagh State Parkway The Wantagh State Parkway is a controlled-access highway, controlled-access Parkways in New York, parkway on Long Island, New York (state), New York, in the United States. It links the Ocean Parkway (Long Island), Ocean Parkway in Jones Beach ...

s south of the

Southern State Parkway The Southern State Parkway (also known as the Southern State or Southern Parkway) is a controlled-access parkway on Long Island, New York, in the United States. The parkway begins at an interchange with the Belt and Cross Island parkways ...

– in addition to the Ocean Parkway and the

Loop Parkway The Loop Parkway (also known as the Loop) is a controlled-access parkway in Nassau County, New York, in the United States. It serves the barrier islands south of Long Island itself, beginning on Long Beach Barrier Island at an intersection wi ...

. The district was listed on the

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on April 28, 2005.

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{{Jones Beach State Park, Causeway and Parkway System Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Roads on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Parks on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) National Register of Historic Places in Hempstead (town), New York National Register of Historic Places in Oyster Bay (town), New York Historic districts in Nassau County, New York

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