Sports and the Outdoors

Long Point State Park. This busy, 320-acre park on Chautauqua Lake has a swimming beach, changing rooms, a modern boat-launch facility, a marina, and a playground. You may hike, bike, snowmobile, and cross-country ski here, or simply have a picnic. Muskellunge are a draw for fishing enthusiasts, but the lake also has bass, pike, and other fish. In winter you may ice fish. 4459 Rte. 430, Bemus Point, New York, 14712. 716/386–2722; nysparks.state.ny.us/parks. Parking $5 May–Sept.. Daily dawn–dusk.