Sunken Meadow State Park Maxes Out, Briefly Shuts on Fourth

was shut down for a few hours on Monday due to an influx of visitors pushing the park’s capacity past its limit by early afternoon.

“We were full for awhile,” said  Regional Director for the State of Office, Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Ron Foley. “We shut down at 1:30 p.m. to just kind of let everybody on the main entrance road get down to the main park.” The park allowed additional visitors again at 3:15 p.m.

The park typically reaches its capacity for about six weekends out of the summer and closes usually for 2-3 due to large crowds, had more than 25,000 visitors. Maximum capacity for the park is between 25,000 and 35,000 visitors.

The park is one of the busiest in New York coming in behind only Jones Beach, which is the busiest and Robert Moses.

“It has been a good year so far,” said Foley. “It depends on the weather. Attendance overall in the region was off due to the overcast weather on Sunday.”