![]() ![]() ![]() The park also offers three full-service accommodations, which provide guests with a shower, refrigerator, a range, a microwave, pillows, bedding, cooking utensils, dishes, and a coffee maker. There are 35 cottages and cabins, eight of which are winterized. The park offers 183 campsites, 46 with electric, none with permanent water hookups. Canoes, kayaks, and paddleboats are available for rent at the dock across from the concession building at the West Beach parking lot. There are a number of marinas in Fair Haven and public access to the bay is available from launch sites in Fair Haven other than in the park. The entire bay is appropriate for motorboats and sailboats of any size, which provides direct access to the lake. Rowboats are generally appropriate only for Sterling Pond and certain parts of the bay. Kayakers who wish to explore Lake Ontario should be proficient in sea kayaking. Sterling Pond, Sterling Creek, and Little Sodus Bay are interesting places for novice and intermediate kayakers and canoers to explore. ![]() The Bluffsįair Haven Beach State Park has one of the finest public lake fronts in upstate New York, with high bluffs towering over 1,500 ft./457 m. Bicycles are available for rent at the dock across from the concession building at the West Beach parking lot. (There are no nearby laundry facilities.) In addition, the roads and paved paths in the park are ideal for children's biking. Bicyclingįair Haven is on the Seaway Trail and caters to long-distance bikers, offering 183 tent sites. Going east along the shore, the low dunes rise into wooded bluffs, then go down again to sandy beach and rise again to wooded bluffs, finally ending at the small, circular Juniper Pond.įair Haven offers more to do than any other park in the Finger Lakes Region. Between East Beach and West Beach is a deep diked area for supervised diving. Just between the dunes and the lake shore is East Beach, another area for supervised swimming. Sterling Marsh is separated from Lake Ontario by a series of low dunes. It's part of a larger wetland complex made up of the creek, Sterling Marsh, and Sterling Pond. Part of the border of the park is created by Sterling Creek as it meanders through the park. To the east of Federal Pier is West Beach, a large sandy area for supervised swimming in the lake. Once inside the park, you will have access to Little Sodus Bay, which is west of the park and exits into Lake Ontario through a long metal breakwater/pier called Federal Pier. Named in 2004 as one of the Top 100 Camp-grounds in the nation.įair Haven Beach State Park is located on the southern shore of Lake Ontario on the east side of Little Sodus Bay in the Village of Fair Haven in Cayuga County.įair Haven is an oddly shaped park with a long entrance road boarded by scrub. Named in 2005 as one of Reserve America's Top Outdoor Locations. Home > Recreation > State Parks Fair Haven Beach State Park ![]()
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