State Parks of the Northeast: America's Colonial Frontier

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Summary: Full of misinformation
Review: I mean no offense to Ms. DeHaan, but State Parks of the Northeast: America's Colonial Frontier is chock full of inaccurate information. My husband and I have just begun camping with our three young boys, and a book on State Parks of the Northeast seemed like such a wonderful resource to keep on board our travel trailer. The first park we looked up was Kettletown State Park in CT because our road atlas indicated that this was directly off of I-84, our route home from a vacation in New England. Ms. DeHaan's book lists this park's location just off of I-85. We chalked that up to a typo which the editor missed. Then I thumbed through the New York State Park section, as I am a transplanted New Yorker. There is a Robert Moses State Park in Massena on the St. Lawrence River near the Canadian border. There is another Robert Moses State Park on the South Shore of Long Island, on the Atlantic Ocean. Ms. DeHaan combined the information on these two parks, and would have on! ! e walk from the St. Lawrence to the Atlantic on a day's hike. I read on to see what was mentioned about Bethpage State Park - my old hometown. The book mentions a "Battle Row" campground as a part of Bethpage State Park when it is, in fact, located in Old Bethpage, several towns away. Furthermore, it is not a State Park, but a county park open to only Nassau County residents. I turned next to the lisitng for Hither Hills State Park in Montauk. The several hundred campsites in Hither HIlls have been reduced to a mere seven in this book. I figured it was time to look at some of the State Parks in my adopted State of Maryland. There is NO mention of the camping facilities in Samllwood State Park in Charles County where I now reside. These are only the State Parks of which I have first-hand knowledge and every single listing contained an error - who knows how many more there are!

Rating:
Summary: Full of misinformation
Review: I mean no offense to Ms. DeHaan, but State Parks of the Northeast: America's Colonial Frontier is chock full of inaccurate information. My husband and I have just begun camping with our three young boys, and a book on State Parks of the Northeast seemed like such a wonderful resource to keep on board our travel trailer. The first park we looked up was Kettletown State Park in CT because our road atlas indicated that this was directly off of I-84, our route home from a vacation in New England. Ms. DeHaan's book lists this park's location just off of I-85. We chalked that up to a typo which the editor missed. Then I thumbed through the New York State Park section, as I am a transplanted New Yorker. There is a Robert Moses State Park in Massena on the St. Lawrence River near the Canadian border. There is another Robert Moses State Park on the South Shore of Long Island, on the Atlantic Ocean. Ms. DeHaan combined the information on these two parks, and would have on! ! e walk from the St. Lawrence to the Atlantic on a day's hike. I read on to see what was mentioned about Bethpage State Park - my old hometown. The book mentions a "Battle Row" campground as a part of Bethpage State Park when it is, in fact, located in Old Bethpage, several towns away. Furthermore, it is not a State Park, but a county park open to only Nassau County residents. I turned next to the lisitng for Hither Hills State Park in Montauk. The several hundred campsites in Hither HIlls have been reduced to a mere seven in this book. I figured it was time to look at some of the State Parks in my adopted State of Maryland. There is NO mention of the camping facilities in Samllwood State Park in Charles County where I now reside. These are only the State Parks of which I have first-hand knowledge and every single listing contained an error - who knows how many more there are!