Verona Beach State Park
From NY Canals - Guide to New York's Erie, Oswego, Champlain, and Cayuga-Seneca Canal System
Verona Beach State Park is located on the eastern shore of Oneida Lake. The park is northwest of the City of Oneida and south of Sylvan Beach. Oneida Creek enters the lake south of the park.
The park offers a beach, a playground, picnic tables and pavilions, hiking and biking, a bridle path, a nature trail, fishing and ice-fishing, a campground with lakeside tent and trailer campsites, cross-country skiing and snowmobiling. There is a diverse wetland habitat and is a perfect spot to "get away from it all."
The park, set on 1,700 acres along the east shore of Oneida Lake, offers swimming, picnicking and camping. Operated by the Central Region, New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, the facility celebrates its 50th anniversary this year.
The park offers three-quarters of a mile of supervised beach, bathhouse, concession stand, two pavilions, seven tents which are rented on weekends for larger gatherings, 45 campsites with a recreation building and numerous picnic sites. For more active visitors, there are four miles of nature trails for hiking and eight miles of horseback/mountain bike trails which convert into cross country ski trails during the winter.
Special events are frequently scheduled.An arts and crafts fair will take place Aug. 9-10, along with a reunion of former park employees on Aug. 10. The annual "Frog Fest", a country music concert sponsored by WFRG-104-FM radio on Father's Day in the park, attracts between 12,000 and 15,000.
The park is open for daily use through Labor Day, after which only the campgrounds are open through Columbus Day in October. Daily use fee is $5 per car. The beach is open from 10:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. daily. While there, don't forget to take a walk or bike right across State Route 13 to its miles of trails.
[edit] Things To Do
- Swim
- Campground Style Camping
- Walk
- Bike
- Playgrounds
- Picnic
- Fish
- More!
[edit] Directions
From the NYS Thruway, take exit 34 and go on State Route 13 North. Take this until you reach Verona Beach, continue past the intersection of Route 31 and take a left turn into the park at the next light.
From the North: Take Route 13 south through Sylvan Beach and over the bridge into Verona Beach. Take a right at the light into the park. There are also signs along the way.
