Nestlé Juicy Juice Helps Fund Playgrounds Across NY State, Including New One at Brooklyn’s East River State Park

During a time of state budget shortfalls, NESTLÉ® JUICY JUICE® swings into action with a $350,000 commitment to build playgrounds across the state. With park visits and playground usage on the rise during this down economy, public-private partnerships provide a means to add new services without tapping state budgets.
A new play area for children will [...]

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Watch For Red-breasted Mergansers in Northern NY

By ELIZABETH KELLOGG, Northunberlandtoday.com, link to original post
On and on they came, flying low over the water. One thousand, two thousand, three thousand -until 15,000 had passed the observer on the west beach in Port Hope. This week, red-breasted mergansers have arrived in large numbers on Lake Ontario.
Red-breasted mergansers are a fish-eating duck. They dive [...]

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Thousand Islands’ parks close early despite pleas

By LORI SHULL, Watertown Daily Times, link to original post
Jo-Ellen Bero, and 150 other people, would like a month of camping time restored to Coles Creek, but it’s just not going to happen.
The state Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation announced this spring that the summer schedules of 15 parks in the Thousand Islands [...]

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Bike-and-hike trail in the works in Clayton & Cape Vincent

By JAEGUN LEE, Watertown Daily Times, link to original post
Clayton is gearing up for another multimillion-dollar project to boost its tourist-driven economy: a 6.2-mile bike-and-hike trail along Route 12E from the village through Cape Vincent.
The proposed bike-and-hike trail — in the form of wider shoulders on Route 12E — would run from Bartlett Point Road [...]

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Fall Trips Offered by Paths Peaks & Paddles, Inc.

1000 Islands Weekend Kayak Trip September 18 – 20, 2009
Come join us as we explore among the Saint Lawrence Islands National Park by touring kayak.  We will be staying on an island that has campsites, great scenery, stunning sunsets, fabulous meals and personable guides.  This is a great way to meet new friends and paddlers. [...]

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Walk to Wellesley Island overlooking the St. Lawrence River

Take a walk over the American span of the Thousand Islands Bridge connecting Collins Landing and Wellesley Island, NY. Visitors can walk completely across the mile-long bridge via a walking path next to the southbound driving lane. The bridge offers a breathtaking view of the St. Lawrence River from more than 100 feet in the [...]

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Riverwalk Section Opens in Thousand Island’s Clayton

By JAEGUN LEE, Watertown Daily Times, Link to original article
The first stretch of the Clayton riverwalk — a scenic trail at the former Frink America site that wraps around the peninsula along the St. Lawrence River — has been completed and is open to the public.
Larry W. Aubertine, chairman of the Clayton Local Development Corp., [...]

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Protecting Tern Habitat on the St. Lawrence River in the Thousand Islands

Click here to see a photo & listen to an NPR program about an innovative – and successful – way to protect tern habitat.

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St. Lawrence Valley Paddlers Club

The St. Lawrence Valley Paddlers club, which has a mixture of canoeists and kayakers from novices to racers, has about 80 active members. The club, which formed in 1994, holds weekly paddling sessions for members and non-members from April to early September on area rivers.
The club sponsors several canoe/kayak races around St. Lawrence County each [...]

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Camp on Paddle-to Islands

Members of the American Canoe Association can paddle to and camp on unique islands – one in the Thousand Islands and one in Harriman State Park near NYC. Click here to read more.

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