📷 Nature Photography on public land in New York

372 public places in New York are listed for nature photography (242 state & public land, 122 state forests, 8 state parks). 1 have no entry fee. Open any place for its map, directions, fees and the land around it.

Rules, seasons and closures vary by unit. Confirm with the managing agency before you go.

The places

🗺️ Carpenters PondUnknown — check official site
🌳 Letchworth State Park$10/vehicle (May–Oct)
🌳 Niagara Falls State Parkfree
🌳 Watkins Glen State Park$10/vehicle
🗺️ Woodchuck Hill Field and Forest PreserveUnknown — check official site
🌲 Albert J. Woodford Memorial State ForestUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Aldrich Pond Wild ForestUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Alpaca Ridge UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Bagley Brook Headwaters UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Bagley Brook UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Balsam Lake Mountain Wild ForestUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Balsam Mountain UnitUnknown — check official site
🌲 Balsam Swamp State ForestUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Barbour Brook UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Barkaboom UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Barnum Road UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Batavia UnitUnknown — check official site
🌲 Battle Hill State ForestUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Bear Spring UnitUnknown — check official site
🌲 Bear Swamp State ForestUnknown — check official site
🌲 Bear Swamp State ForestUnknown — check official site
🌲 Bearpen Mountain State ForestUnknown — check official site
🌲 Beartown State ForestUnknown — check official site
🌲 Beaver Creek State ForestUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Beaver Hill UnitUnknown — check official site
🌲 Beaver Meadow State ForestUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Beaverkill UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Beech Hill UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Beech Ridge UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Beetree Hill UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Bell Hill UnitUnknown — check official site
🌲 Berlin State ForestUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Betty Brook Road UnitUnknown — check official site
🌲 Big Brook State ForestUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Big Hollow UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Big Indian UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Big Indian WildernessUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Birch Creek UnitUnknown — check official site
🌲 Birdseye Hollow State ForestUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Black River Wild ForestUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Blue Hill UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Blue Mountain Wild ForestUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Blue Ridge WildernessUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Bluebird Road UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Bluestone Wild ForestUnknown — check official site
🌲 Bombay State ForestUnknown — check official site
🌲 Boutwell Hill State ForestUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Boyd Corners North UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Boyd Corners South UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Bragg Hollow UnitUnknown — check official site
🌲 Brasher State ForestUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Broadstreet Hollow UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Brodhead UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Brook Road UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Brownell Creek UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Brush Ridge UnitUnknown — check official site
🌲 Bucktooth State ForestUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Bull Hill UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Bump Mountain UnitUnknown — check official site
🌲 Burnt-Rossman Hills State ForestUnknown — check official site
🌲 Cameron State ForestUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Campbell Road UnitUnknown — check official site
🌲 Canacadea State ForestUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Canada Hollow UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Cape Horn UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Carey Road UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Carlton Hill Multiple Use AreaUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Carman Road UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Case Road UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Cat & Thomas Mountains Forest PreserveUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Cave Mountain UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Center Jewett UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Chambers Hollow UnitUnknown — check official site
🌲 Charles E. Baker State ForestUnknown — check official site
🌲 Charleston State ForestUnknown — check official site
🌲 Chateaugay State ForestUnknown — check official site
🌲 Chazy Highlands State ForestUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Chazy Highlands Wild ForestUnknown — check official site
🌲 Cherry Valley State ForestUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Chestnut Creek UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Chichester UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Chipmunk Hollow UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Churchill Mountain UnitUnknown — check official site
🌲 Cinnamon Lake State ForestUnknown — check official site
🌲 Clark Hill State ForestUnknown — check official site
🌲 Cobb Creek State ForestUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Colgate Lake Wild ForestUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Conklin Brook UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Coulter Brook UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Covert Hollow UnitUnknown — check official site
🌲 Coyle Hill State ForestUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Cozy Hollow UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Cranberry Lake Wild ForestUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Crescent Valley UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Cross Road UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Crystal Creek UnitUnknown — check official site
🌲 Cuyler Hill State ForestUnknown — check official site
🌲 Danby State ForestUnknown — check official site
🗺️ David A. Sarnoff PreserveUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Debar Mountain Wild ForestUnknown — check official site
🌲 Deer River State ForestUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Delaware Headwaters UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Delaware Wild ForestUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Denman Mountain UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Devasego UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Diamond Road UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Dinch Road UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Dog Hill UnitUnknown — check official site
🌲 Downerville State ForestUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Dry Brook Ridge Wild ForestUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Duggan Hill UnitUnknown — check official site
🌲 Dunkin's Reserve State ForestUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Dunraven North UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ East Bramley Mountain UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ East Branch Delaware UnitUnknown — check official site
🌲 East Branch Fish Creek State ForestUnknown — check official site
🌲 East Osceola State ForestUnknown — check official site
🗺️ East Platner Brook UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ East Windham UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Eastern Five Ponds Access Primitive AreaUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Elk Creek UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Elm Ridge Wild ForestUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Essex Chain Lakes Primitive AreaUnknown — check official site
🌲 Fall Brook State ForestUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Fall Clove Road UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Ferris Lake Wild ForestUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Fish Hollow UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Five Ponds WildernessUnknown — check official site
🌲 Five Streams State ForestUnknown — check official site
🌲 Flat Rock State ForestUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Fletcher Hollow UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Four Corners UnitUnknown — check official site
🌲 Frank E. Jadwin Memorial State ForestUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Fulton Chain Wild ForestUnknown — check official site
🌲 Furnace Creek State ForestUnknown — check official site
🌲 Genegantslet State ForestUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Giant Mountain WildernessUnknown — check official site
🌲 Gillies Hill State ForestUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Gladstone Hollow UnitUnknown — check official site
🌲 Golden Hill State ForestUnknown — check official site
🌲 Gould's Corners State ForestUnknown — check official site
🌲 Goundry Hill State ForestUnknown — check official site
🌲 Grant Powell State ForestUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Grass River Wild ForestUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Green Eyes UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Gregory Hill UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Griffin Hill UnitUnknown — check official site
🌲 Griggs Gulf State ForestUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Gun House Hill UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Halcott Center UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Halcott UnitUnknown — check official site
🌲 Hall Island State ForestUnknown — check official site
🌲 Hammond Hill State ForestUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Hammond Pond Wild ForestUnknown — check official site
🌳 Harriman State ParkUnknown — check official site
🌲 Harris Hill State ForestUnknown — check official site
🌲 Harvey Mountain State ForestUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Hemlock Knolls UnitUnknown — check official site
🌲 Hemlock-Canadice State ForestUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Herdman Road UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Herrick Hill UnitUnknown — check official site
🌲 High Flats State ForestUnknown — check official site
🗺️ High Peaks WildernessUnknown — check official site
🌳 High Point State ParkUnknown — check official site
🌲 Hinckley State ForestUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Hoffman Notch WildernessUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Holmes Hollow UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Horseshoe Lake Wild ForestUnknown — check official site
🌲 Hoxie Gorge State ForestUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Hubbard Hill UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Huckleberry Brook UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Hudson River Special Management AreaUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Hunter-West Kill WildernessUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Hurricane Mountain WildernessUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Huyck PreserveUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Independence River Wild ForestUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Indian Head WildernessUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Irish Hill UnitUnknown — check official site
🌲 Italy Hill State ForestUnknown — check official site
🌲 James Kennedy State ForestUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Jessup River Wild ForestUnknown — check official site
🗺️ John Chase Brook UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Kaaterskill Wild ForestUnknown — check official site
🌲 Keeney Swamp State ForestUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Kiff Brook UnitUnknown — check official site
🌲 Klipnocky State ForestUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Labrador Hollow Unique AreaUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Ladleton UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Lake George Wild ForestUnknown — check official site
🌲 Lassellsville State ForestUnknown — check official site
🌲 Leonard Hill State ForestUnknown — check official site
🌲 Lesser Wilderness State ForestUnknown — check official site
🌲 Lincklaen State ForestUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Lisha Kill Natural AreaUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Little Westkill UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Lockwood PropertiesUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Long LakeUnknown — check official site
🌲 Long Pond State ForestUnknown — check official site
🌲 Lookout State ForestUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Lost Clove UnitUnknown — check official site
🌲 Lost Nation State ForestUnknown — check official site
🌲 Ludlow Creek State ForestUnknown — check official site
🌲 Lutheranville State ForestUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Maben Hill UnitUnknown — check official site
🌳 Macedonia Brook State ParkUnknown — check official site
🌲 Mad River State ForestUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Madawaska Flow - Quebec Brook Primitive AreaUnknown — check official site
🌲 Mallet Pond State ForestUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Manorkill UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Maplecrest UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ McArthur Hill UnitUnknown — check official site
🌲 McCarty Hill State ForestUnknown — check official site
🌲 McDonough State ForestUnknown — check official site
🗺️ McGregor Mountain North UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ McGregor Mountain UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ McKenzie Mountain WildernessUnknown — check official site
🌲 Melondy Hill State ForestUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Mile Shore UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Miller Road UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Mink Hollow UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Mohonk PreserveUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Moore Hill UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Moose River Plains Wild ForestUnknown — check official site
🗺️ More Park UnitUnknown — check official site
🌲 Moss Hill State ForestUnknown — check official site
🌲 Mount Tom State ForestUnknown — check official site
🌲 Muller Hill State ForestUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Murphy Hill UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Narrow Notch UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ Neversink River Unique AreaUnknown — check official site
🗺️ New Kingston Mountain UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ New Road UnitUnknown — check official site
🌲 Newfield State ForestUnknown — check official site
🌲 Nine Mile Creek State ForestUnknown — check official site
🗺️ North Ashland UnitUnknown — check official site
🌲 North Harmony State ForestUnknown — check official site
🗺️ North Lexington UnitUnknown — check official site
🗺️ North Side UnitUnknown — check official site
🌳 Palisades Interstate ParkUnknown — check official site
🌲 Palmer's Pond State ForestUnknown — check official site

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