A new bathhouse, lifeguard station, and playground were recently unveiled at Stony Brook State Park near Dansville, Steuben County, NY.
During the announcement of the completion of these upgrades, new investments were announced to improve parking lots, update tennis courts, and build a new park office. The upcoming renovations are expected to be complete in 2025.
The completed projects included construction of a new 1,700 square-foot visitors’ bathhouse with changing rooms, showers and restrooms, which replaced an obsolete bathhouse built in the 1960s. A new 750 square-foot building was constructed for a lifeguard headquarters, first aid area, and office space.
The buildings were designed in a board and batten wood style to complement the park facilities that were constructed in the 1930s by members of the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression.
Design work was provided by Beardsley Architects and Engineers, a New York State-based architectural firm. Other improvements under the project include a new playground, renewed footpaths and wayfinding signage, and an area for a food truck to operate during special events.
Located just south of the village of Dansville and established in 1928, the 568-acre park offers two stream-fed swimming pools, picnic tables and pavilions, and three miles of hiking trails that pass by scenic waterfalls, as well as 88 campsites, a group campsite, and eight rustic cabins in woodlands above the gorge that forms Stony Brook.
More information about Stony Brook State Park can be found here.
Photo: A stream-fed swimming pool at Stony Brook State Park (State Parks).
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