Canopus Lake Beach Welcome Facilities Renovation

Enhancing the public's experience of the Mid-Hudson region's Natural infrastructure,? the project will renovate and upgrade the visitor welcome facilities at the Canopus Lake Beach recreational area within Clarence Fahnestock Memorial State Park (Fahnestock State Park, for short) in the Town of Kent, Putnam County. Those facilities consist of an outdated bathhouse and an adjacent concession and administrative building that since 1996 has been adapted, uncomfortably, into what has become a thriving winter park center, offering cross country skiing, snowshoeing and sledding. Under the project (1) the bathhouse will be fully renovated, made ADA compliant, and winterized for four-season use, and (2) the concession/administration/cross country ski center will be reconfigured and expanded modestly to adapt to new visitation patterns brought on by the winter park. The project will directly support 43 construction jobs over the two years it will take to complete, as well as support a regional tourism economy that benefits from a strong network of state parks. In keeping with Governor Cuomo?s priorities for the state park system, the project is a public-private partnership between the Open Space Conservancy?s (OSC?s) Alliance for New York State Parks (the Alliance), the Friends of Fahnestock and Hudson Highlands State Parks (FOFHH) and the Taconic Region of the NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (OPRHP).
Program Name:
Park Acquisition, Development and Planning
Agency ID:
Parks
Applicant Name:
Open Space Conservancy
Region:
Mid-Hudson
County:

Putnam

CFA Number:
2225
Round Number:
1
Award:
$400,000
Grant Money Disbursed to Date:
$400,000

Project Status:
blue
Anticipated Completion Date:
Contract Executed:
 
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