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Evangola State Park
Irving NY 14081
Park Office: (716) 549-1802
Campsite Office: (716) 549-1760
This is the only state park in local area, opened in 1954 with 733 acres in size. Formerly
farmland, the land was used to grow tomatoes, beans and corn (as a tribute to its
history, annual tomato festival takes place on the grounds). Evangola's major
attraction from the beginning was it's arc-shaped shore-line and natural sand beach.
The park has a variety of habitats including lakeshore, woodland, meadow and
wetlands. Wildlife in the park includes white-tailed deer, raccoons, turkey, and red-
tailed hawks. It is estimated that over 100,000 people visit this park each year! Park is
in use from dawn to dusk, year-round.
There is also a campground available. As a state park with greater prestige Evangola
was named one of the Top 100 campgrounds in the nation in 2007. From mid-April to
late October, 80 campsites are available for public use, offering both tent options and
trailer sites. Flush toilets and hot showers are available in the park. For more
information on different ways to camp please visit the following website www.nysparks.
state.ny.us
The park is also available for weddings, and includes a gazebo overlooking Lake Erie.
There is also a 125 person banquet room overlooking the beach.
Picnic tables overlook the lake, and a number are accessible to people with limited
mobility. There are six picnic shelters (accommodate up to 90 people) and also two
large shelters with electricity (accommodate up to 162 people). Restrooms are located
nearby. Picnic shelters for group outings must be reserved.
The park is equipped in facilities for baseball, tennis, volleyball, disc golf, basketball,
and horseshoes are present in the park The is renovated and large children’s
playground. In winter people snowmobile, ice fish and use park for recreation such as
cross country skiing and snowshoeing. During summer season local restaurant is open
to the public.
The beach on the shore of Lake Erie is bordered by cliffs of Angola shale. With a natural
sand beach Evangola has one of the finest swimming areas in the Western New York.
The lifeguard is on duty throughout the summer season.
As every state park there is a guard on duty and all visitors must administer a fee upon
entrance to the park.
Evans Town Park
8965 Lakeshore Road
Angola NY 14006
716-549-0970
This local jewel was created to benefit local neighborhood – please remember the park
is open to Town of Evans residents only. As most of local parks and beaches, this park
opens on Memorial Day as well and remains open through Labor Day from 8am to
10pm. Please note despite bad weather, the access to the park section is year round.
The park is equipped in picnic facilities with many tables around. In addition there are 8
shelter and 2 pavilions available with electric hook ups and standing grills. Shelter hold
up to 25 people, while pavilions up to 60. Both require prior reservation with the park
office. Restrooms are on site as well. To enter park everybody requires a Town of
Evans resident sticker which are available at the main entrance or at the town hall. The
park provides access to clean, sandy and simply gorgeous strip to shores of Lake Erie
and the beach. Please note the beach is part of the park and can be utilize only by
residents. The lifeguard is always on duty during the season. If it gets to hot for you,
there are many other things to keep you busy. Among this natural surrounding you’ll
find a specious and modern playground, horseshoe pits, baseball diamond, volleyball
court, 2 tennis courts and 2 basketball courts (one on the beach side, the other
combined with roller hockey court in the park).
Please be courteous to other and leave your pets home as no animals are allowed.
Bennett Beach
8276 Lake Shore Rd
Angola NY 14006
716-947-5660
Bennett Beach is probably the ultimate Florida like experience here in Western New
York. Also this sunflower of local beaches is secluded and pretty much unknown to the
vast public which even puts it above other in the terms of privacy and natural beauty.
Bennett Beach is a perfect destination for people seeking rest and relaxation; the
majesty and tranquility. Please bring lots of sunscreen and hats or summer umbrellas
as the beach is cooled off by Lake Erie winds. Most of the time the breeze makes is
very comfortable not realizing that actual temperature is much warmer.
The passage from the park side to the beach is also very unusual from other local
parks. The path will graciously take in somewhat rustic bridge you over the Big Sister
Creek. You feel face the largest sand dun in Erie County. You can choose to go around
it or through it by climbing to the top. The beach is around the corner – Bennett Beach
is definitely one of the largest and most beautiful in the area.
The park side has picnic tables and restroom facilities open to the public from 10 to 7
pm in the season. This part is somewhat not taken care off, yet this illusion hides the
true beauty of the park when crossing the mentioned above bridge.
You might spot here some wildflowers and pussy willows, maybe rabbits, deer and
squirrels, and looking above sometimes waterfowl, shorebirds, gulls, terns, herons,
ducks or even turkey vultures.
The Bennett Beach takes its name from Joseph Bennett, who arrived in western New
York with his family in 1820. He worked two summers in canal labor at Lockport, a lake
trader, but then Bennett traveled to Pennsylvania's Susquehanna Valley to begin a
three-year stint in canal construction. Bennett not only supervised men in
Pennsylvania, but specialized in the more dangerous aspects of the job, namely
blasting. Moving back to Evans with his wife Mary Roat in 1829, Bennett settled into
the life of husband, farmer, and construction contractor. By the mid-1830s, when the
last of the couple's five children had been born, Bennett had begun to take on greater
responsibility in his town, county, and state. He had been a founder of the First Baptist
Church of Evans (he would in fact serve as a lifelong deacon of that church), and would
soon be elected to his first of six terms as town supervisor - in 1852 serving as
chairman of the Erie County Board of Supervisors. Bennett for years held the post of
county coroner, served a term in the state legislature, and headed up the Erie County
Poor Board during the Civil War.
As Bennett moved into his twilight years, noting that the growing middle class of
Buffalo and beyond was coming to see Erie County's lake shore as a desirable
summering place, he gradually began to turn his farm into a summer resort, taking in
campers and boarders, and increasing the breadth of his facilities virtually until his
death. Guests traveled sometimes hundreds of miles to stay at the Bennett
Homestead in Evans. Bennett died on October 9, 1899. He is buried in the Forest
Avenue cemetery in Angola, New York. All vestiges of his home, farm, and resort
facilities have been erased from what is now Bennett Beach Park.
Wendt Beach
7676 Old Lake Shore Road
Derby NY 14047
Wendt Beach Park is a 170-acre lake front estate and was used as the Henry W.
Wendt, Jr. family's summer residence, which they later renamed the "The Ridgewood."
The grounds present a panorama of cropped lawns and colorful flower gardens with
occasional benches, and a picket fence. Structures reflect an earlier era of affluence: a
log cabin, once a playhouse and a guest house; a caretaker's cottage; a garage with
chauffeur's quarters; stables; now public restrooms; the pump house, where water
brought in from Lake Erie was stored in a large tank and pumped through pipes to
outside spigots for watering the gardens.
Wendt Beach is very well known in the area for it’s soccer complex. Lakeshore Soccer
League excites everybody during their season. Soccer fields stretch from the park to
Old Lake Shore Blvd. The park itself is very surrine and planned out. There is a natural
yet friendly bluff separating the beach from the park itself. You will find picnic tables,
grills and lots of room for gatherings. There is a basketball court. The restroom facilities
are open in season.
To enter the beach one must go through a little tunnel. The beach itself in contrast to
other s very narrow and pretty rocky. Nevethless it is unique and very friendly. The
lifeguard remains on duty throughout the season.
Lake Erie Beach Park
9568 Lakeshore Road
Angola NY 14006
This widely popular destination is open year round to the public. Visitors know this park
the best by yearly magnificent display of fireworks during the 4th of July. Come any day
and simply relax! In addition to sandy beach there is a play area along with basketball
courts. The strip of beach is monitored by lifeguard every day from 11 am to 7 pm from
Memorial through Labor Day. The park is also equipped in restroom facilities, but please
leave your K9s at home – no pets allowed.
Irving NY 14081
Park Office: (716) 549-1802
Campsite Office: (716) 549-1760
This is the only state park in local area, opened in 1954 with 733 acres in size. Formerly
farmland, the land was used to grow tomatoes, beans and corn (as a tribute to its
history, annual tomato festival takes place on the grounds). Evangola's major
attraction from the beginning was it's arc-shaped shore-line and natural sand beach.
The park has a variety of habitats including lakeshore, woodland, meadow and
wetlands. Wildlife in the park includes white-tailed deer, raccoons, turkey, and red-
tailed hawks. It is estimated that over 100,000 people visit this park each year! Park is
in use from dawn to dusk, year-round.
There is also a campground available. As a state park with greater prestige Evangola
was named one of the Top 100 campgrounds in the nation in 2007. From mid-April to
late October, 80 campsites are available for public use, offering both tent options and
trailer sites. Flush toilets and hot showers are available in the park. For more
information on different ways to camp please visit the following website www.nysparks.
state.ny.us
The park is also available for weddings, and includes a gazebo overlooking Lake Erie.
There is also a 125 person banquet room overlooking the beach.
Picnic tables overlook the lake, and a number are accessible to people with limited
mobility. There are six picnic shelters (accommodate up to 90 people) and also two
large shelters with electricity (accommodate up to 162 people). Restrooms are located
nearby. Picnic shelters for group outings must be reserved.
The park is equipped in facilities for baseball, tennis, volleyball, disc golf, basketball,
and horseshoes are present in the park The is renovated and large children’s
playground. In winter people snowmobile, ice fish and use park for recreation such as
cross country skiing and snowshoeing. During summer season local restaurant is open
to the public.
The beach on the shore of Lake Erie is bordered by cliffs of Angola shale. With a natural
sand beach Evangola has one of the finest swimming areas in the Western New York.
The lifeguard is on duty throughout the summer season.
As every state park there is a guard on duty and all visitors must administer a fee upon
entrance to the park.
Evans Town Park
8965 Lakeshore Road
Angola NY 14006
716-549-0970
This local jewel was created to benefit local neighborhood – please remember the park
is open to Town of Evans residents only. As most of local parks and beaches, this park
opens on Memorial Day as well and remains open through Labor Day from 8am to
10pm. Please note despite bad weather, the access to the park section is year round.
The park is equipped in picnic facilities with many tables around. In addition there are 8
shelter and 2 pavilions available with electric hook ups and standing grills. Shelter hold
up to 25 people, while pavilions up to 60. Both require prior reservation with the park
office. Restrooms are on site as well. To enter park everybody requires a Town of
Evans resident sticker which are available at the main entrance or at the town hall. The
park provides access to clean, sandy and simply gorgeous strip to shores of Lake Erie
and the beach. Please note the beach is part of the park and can be utilize only by
residents. The lifeguard is always on duty during the season. If it gets to hot for you,
there are many other things to keep you busy. Among this natural surrounding you’ll
find a specious and modern playground, horseshoe pits, baseball diamond, volleyball
court, 2 tennis courts and 2 basketball courts (one on the beach side, the other
combined with roller hockey court in the park).
Please be courteous to other and leave your pets home as no animals are allowed.
Bennett Beach
8276 Lake Shore Rd
Angola NY 14006
716-947-5660
Bennett Beach is probably the ultimate Florida like experience here in Western New
York. Also this sunflower of local beaches is secluded and pretty much unknown to the
vast public which even puts it above other in the terms of privacy and natural beauty.
Bennett Beach is a perfect destination for people seeking rest and relaxation; the
majesty and tranquility. Please bring lots of sunscreen and hats or summer umbrellas
as the beach is cooled off by Lake Erie winds. Most of the time the breeze makes is
very comfortable not realizing that actual temperature is much warmer.
The passage from the park side to the beach is also very unusual from other local
parks. The path will graciously take in somewhat rustic bridge you over the Big Sister
Creek. You feel face the largest sand dun in Erie County. You can choose to go around
it or through it by climbing to the top. The beach is around the corner – Bennett Beach
is definitely one of the largest and most beautiful in the area.
The park side has picnic tables and restroom facilities open to the public from 10 to 7
pm in the season. This part is somewhat not taken care off, yet this illusion hides the
true beauty of the park when crossing the mentioned above bridge.
You might spot here some wildflowers and pussy willows, maybe rabbits, deer and
squirrels, and looking above sometimes waterfowl, shorebirds, gulls, terns, herons,
ducks or even turkey vultures.
The Bennett Beach takes its name from Joseph Bennett, who arrived in western New
York with his family in 1820. He worked two summers in canal labor at Lockport, a lake
trader, but then Bennett traveled to Pennsylvania's Susquehanna Valley to begin a
three-year stint in canal construction. Bennett not only supervised men in
Pennsylvania, but specialized in the more dangerous aspects of the job, namely
blasting. Moving back to Evans with his wife Mary Roat in 1829, Bennett settled into
the life of husband, farmer, and construction contractor. By the mid-1830s, when the
last of the couple's five children had been born, Bennett had begun to take on greater
responsibility in his town, county, and state. He had been a founder of the First Baptist
Church of Evans (he would in fact serve as a lifelong deacon of that church), and would
soon be elected to his first of six terms as town supervisor - in 1852 serving as
chairman of the Erie County Board of Supervisors. Bennett for years held the post of
county coroner, served a term in the state legislature, and headed up the Erie County
Poor Board during the Civil War.
As Bennett moved into his twilight years, noting that the growing middle class of
Buffalo and beyond was coming to see Erie County's lake shore as a desirable
summering place, he gradually began to turn his farm into a summer resort, taking in
campers and boarders, and increasing the breadth of his facilities virtually until his
death. Guests traveled sometimes hundreds of miles to stay at the Bennett
Homestead in Evans. Bennett died on October 9, 1899. He is buried in the Forest
Avenue cemetery in Angola, New York. All vestiges of his home, farm, and resort
facilities have been erased from what is now Bennett Beach Park.
Wendt Beach
7676 Old Lake Shore Road
Derby NY 14047
Wendt Beach Park is a 170-acre lake front estate and was used as the Henry W.
Wendt, Jr. family's summer residence, which they later renamed the "The Ridgewood."
The grounds present a panorama of cropped lawns and colorful flower gardens with
occasional benches, and a picket fence. Structures reflect an earlier era of affluence: a
log cabin, once a playhouse and a guest house; a caretaker's cottage; a garage with
chauffeur's quarters; stables; now public restrooms; the pump house, where water
brought in from Lake Erie was stored in a large tank and pumped through pipes to
outside spigots for watering the gardens.
Wendt Beach is very well known in the area for it’s soccer complex. Lakeshore Soccer
League excites everybody during their season. Soccer fields stretch from the park to
Old Lake Shore Blvd. The park itself is very surrine and planned out. There is a natural
yet friendly bluff separating the beach from the park itself. You will find picnic tables,
grills and lots of room for gatherings. There is a basketball court. The restroom facilities
are open in season.
To enter the beach one must go through a little tunnel. The beach itself in contrast to
other s very narrow and pretty rocky. Nevethless it is unique and very friendly. The
lifeguard remains on duty throughout the season.
Lake Erie Beach Park
9568 Lakeshore Road
Angola NY 14006
This widely popular destination is open year round to the public. Visitors know this park
the best by yearly magnificent display of fireworks during the 4th of July. Come any day
and simply relax! In addition to sandy beach there is a play area along with basketball
courts. The strip of beach is monitored by lifeguard every day from 11 am to 7 pm from
Memorial through Labor Day. The park is also equipped in restroom facilities, but please
leave your K9s at home – no pets allowed.
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