The Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (State Parks) has opened the Hop Field Warming Hut at John Boyd Thacher State Park in Albany County. The new 1,250-square-foot facility includes a wood-burning fireplace, year-round restrooms, and a warm refuge with books and board games for those exploring the park’s cross-country skiing, snowshoeing and snowmobiling trails. [Read more…] about New Warming Hut Opens at John Boyd Thacher State Park
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New York’s Postwar State Park Architecture
After World War II, the taste for rustic architecture that defined the interwar period of New York’s state park design began to wane. This also happened across the National Park Service system, which fully embraced modern architecture in the mid-1950s. [Read more…] about New York’s Postwar State Park Architecture