Montauk Downs State Park

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Montauk Downs State Park is a state park in New York, USA. The park is located in Suffolk County, New York near the eastern tip of the South Fork of Long Island.

The park is located near the eastern tip of the South Fork, on the north side of Route 27, Sunrise Highway. A few miles arther east are two more state parks: Camp Hero State Park and Montauk Point State Park.

The park offers food, a pool and showers, a driving range and a championship length golf course, and tennis.

The golf course traces its history to 1926 when Carl G. Fisher bought almost the entire land from Montauk to the point in hopes of turning it into the "Miami of the North." Other Fisher projects at this time included the six-story Montauk Improvement Building in downtown Montauk, the Montauk Manor luxury hotel, and connecting Lake Montauk to Block Island Sound to build his Montauk Yacht Club and Star Island Casino. Fisher lost his fortune in the 1929 Stock Market Crash and the state eventually took over the golf course.^[1]

The course was redesigned by Robert Trent Jones in 1968^[2].

[edit] See also

• List of New York state parks

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