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Montauk Point State Park

State park in New York, United States

Field	Value
name	Montauk Point State Park
photo	Montauk Point Lighthouse State Park Aerial View.jpg
photo_caption	Aerial view of the Montauk Point Light and Montauk Point State Park in August 2025.
map	New York
map_caption	Location of Montauk Point State Park within New York State
coords
type	State park
location	2000 Montauk Highway
Montauk, New York
nearest_city	Montauk, New York
area	862 acre
created
operator	New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation
visitation_num	1,247,933
visitation_year	2024
visitation_ref
open	All year
website	Montauk Point State Park

Montauk, New York

Montauk Point State Park is a 862 acre state park located in the hamlet of Montauk, at the eastern tip of Long Island in the Town of East Hampton, Suffolk County, New York. Montauk Point is the easternmost point of the South Fork of Long Island, and thus also of New York State.

History

The park contains the Montauk Point Light, which was authorized by the Second Congress, under President George Washington in 1792. Construction began on June 7, 1796 and was completed on November 5, 1796. The lighthouse and adjacent Camp Hero were heavily fortified with huge guns during World War I and World War II. Those gun emplacements and concrete observation bunkers (which are also at nearby Shadmoor State Park and Camp Hero State Park) are still visible.

Amistad, a Spanish ship taken over by slaves in 1839, was captured by Washington near Montauk Point. The slaves were allowed to briefly disembark here before being re-imprisoned and taken to New London, Connecticut for trial. The Amistad case was heard before the Supreme Court of the United States, where John Quincy Adams successfully argued that the slaves had been kidnapped. Following the trial, the slaves were permitted to return to Africa. The case fanned the debate over the abolition of slavery.

Park description

Montauk Point State Park features picnic tables, a food concession, playground, fishing, seasonal hunting, and trails for hiking and cross-country skiing.

Suffolk Transit's S94 route also serves the park seasonally connecting it with Montauk Village. The park is located at the end of New York State Route 27.

In Literature

A memory of this district is related in Lydia Sigourney's poem Montauk Point, published in her Scenes in my Native Land, 1845.

Image gallery

Image:US-NY - North Fork - Montauk Point Lighthouse - Montauk Point (4887140001).jpg|Montauk Point Light Image:Montauk Sunrise.JPG| Montauk Light at sunrise Image:Montauk Point Light in storm.jpg|Montauk Point Light in stormy weather File:Montauk Point Amistad Memorial; May 11 2008.JPG|Amistad Memorial

References

"Montauk Point State Park - Getting There". NYS Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation.
(2014). "2014 New York State Statistical Yearbook". The Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government.
"State Park Annual Attendance Figures by Facility: Beginning 2003".
"Montauk Point State Park". NYS Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation.
Sigourney, Lydia. (1845). "Scenes in My Native Land". Thurston, Torry & Co..

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