Description

Southwick Beach State Park is spacious and popular, known for outstanding swimming and sunning on its long, sandy beach. Campers and day-users enjoy picnicking, hiking, and games on the playing fields. The park is adjacent to the Lakeview Wildlife Management Area, home to environmentally-sensitive coastal sand dunes. Nature trails, hiking trails, cross-country ski trails, and snowshoeing trails adjoin the wildlife management area and its trail system, which visitors are encouraged to use. During the winter, snowmobilers are permitted in the park. Deer hunting is allowed south of the park entrance in season.

Geography:

Southwick Beach State Park is located next to the Lakeview Wildlife Management Area on the Lake Ontario shore, off Route 3, southwest of Watertown.

Recreation:

Park visitors enjoy picnicking, hiking, playing field sports, walking, cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, snowmobiling, and deer hunting.

Facilities:

The park offers a variety of campsites, a beach, restrooms with showers, a dumping station, food concession, nature trails, hiking trails, picnic areas, reservable picnic areas with canopy tents, playgrounds, and playing fields. Most facilities are handicapped-accessible.