State Parks:

Gilbert Lake State Park

18 CCC Rd
Laurens, NY 13796
Telephone: 607-432-2114
Lake and three ponds in wooded terrain; 12 miles of trails. Playgrounds, frisbee-disc golf course, swimming, boating & fishing. The Civilian Conservation Corps Museum is located within the park.

Betty & Wilbur Davis State Park

173 Davis Road
Westford, NY 13488
Telephone: 607-547-8662
Betty & Wilbur Davis State Park provides spectacular views to the south and west features extensive hiking trails and catch and release fishing.

Glimmerglass State Park

1527 County Hwy 31
Cooperstown, NY 13326
Telephone: 607-547-8662
Toll Free: 800-456-CAMP
Seen from the south, Mount Wellington, on the eastern shore of Otsego Lake, is said to resemble a sleeping lion. The loop trail that climbs it from Glimmerglass State Park is about 2.5 miles long, marked with orange paint blazes. This trail offers a lovely forested walk through magestic white pines, hemlocks and hardwoods.

Robert V. Riddell State Park

St Hwy 28 & Cty Hwy 7
Exit 17 off I-88
Oneonta, NY 13820
Telephone: 315/492-1756
The park consists of agricultural fields, deciduous and coniferous forests. Schenevus Creek, a popular trout stream, crosses the northern parcel of the park.

Water fun:

Glimmerglass Queen

10 Fair Street
Cooperstown, NY 13326
Telephone: 607-547-9511
These narrated boat tours of Otsego Lake offer a relaxing glimpse of the history and beauty of James Fenimore Cooper's fabled Leatherstocking Tales.

Classic Cruiser Charters

261 Brighton Road
Worcester, NY 12197
Telephone: 518-424-3939
Charter boat rentals with Captain/crew on the Champlain and Erie canals.

CP's Charter Service

574 County Highway 29
Richfield Springs, NY 13439
CP's Guide Service offers 90-minute historical Otsego Lake sightseeing boat tours, as well as full- and half-day fishing excursions.

Fairy Spring Park

Cty Hwy 31
Cooperstown, NY 13326
Telephone: 607-547-2411
A rustic shaded swimming area on Otsego Lake with lifeguards on duty. Picnic tables and a pavilion.

Sam Smith's Boat Yard

State Hwy 80
Cooperstown, NY 13326
Telephone: 607-547-2543
Boat rentals of all types, nautical equipment, popular lakefront grill - come by land or lake.

Time Out Boat Rentals

6714 State Highway 80
Cooperstown, NY 13326
Telephone: 607-287-7737
Captain your own pontoon boat on Otsego, Canadarago or Goodyear lakes. Boats are delivered with personalized. You can rent boats by the hour, half day, full day or week. Guided tours are also available on Otsego Lake.

By horse:

Brass Ring Farm

4015 State Hwy 28
Milford, NY 13807
Telephone: 607-286-9333
The Brass Ring Farm offers pony rides and horseback trail rides.

Morning Dew Stables

436 Lougheed Rd
Milford, NY 13820
Telephone: 607-441-4050
This stable offers trail rides, lessons, and boarding as well as a unique therapeutic riding and driving lessons program. Call for appointment.

Tri-Valley Trail Rides

County Highway 10
Laurens, NY 13796
Tri-Valley Trail Rides offer guided horseback rides on well-behaved horses. These rides offer nice views on shaded trails by appointment. Also offers pony rides for the little ones!

Waltzing Horse Farm

130 Musk Rd
New Berlin, NY 13411
Telephone: 607-847-9406
The Waltzing Horse Farm offers private dressage lessons and boarding facilities. Breeders of Lippizzaners and Friesians, we are dedicated to promoting and preserving the classical breeding and riding standards and will be offering tours of the farm and viewings of our unique horse breeds, including a film.

Ichabob's Conveyance

507 St Hwy 166
Cooperstown, NY 13326
Telephone: 607-286-7578
Ichabob's Conveyance is available for summer wagon rides. Minimum of 4 people per ride. At the farm located right outside of Milford.

Other trails, gardens and preserves:

Valley View Walking Trails

298 Sheep-Pen Rd
Unadilla, NY 13849
Telephone: 607-563-3459
Nature trails for hiking or mountain biking. Scenic trails with lookout points.

Brookwood Garden

6000 State Route 80
Cooperstown, NY 13326
Telephone: 607-547-2170
Brookwood Garden offers tours of spectacular horticulture of the past and present, visiting a variety of private gardens not otherwise open to the public, including some of the early work of Ellen Biddle Shipman, one of the foremost garden designers of America's Golden Age.

Goodyear Swamp Sanctuary

State Route 80
Springfield Center, NY 13468
Telephone: 607-547-4488
This wetland at the northwest end of Otsego Lake is a system of trails and boardwalks that provides a moderate walk of over a quarter-mile in which to observe more than 200 species of plants, thousands of invertebrate organisms, as well as water-fowl, fur-bearing mammals, amphibians, and reptiles. A tour booklet is available at the entrance.

Joseph L. Popp Jr. Butterfly Conservatory

5802 State Highway 7
Oneonta, NY 13820
Telephone: 607-435-1147
Live tropical butterfly exhibit and botanical garden. See and walk among hundreds of live, free-flying butterflies from around the world in our huge indoor conservatory herbarium -- home also to hundreds of exotic plants.

Lordsland Preserve

Doc Ahlers Road
Roseboom, NY 13450
Telephone: 607-547-4488
Private, 80-acre parcel owned by The Nature Conservancy with two trails, each about three-quarters of a mile long. The west trail, with red trail-markers, offers open views of the beaver ponds and the surrounding wetland and rewarding birding and hiking. The east trail marked with blue trailmarkers, is steeper.

Susquehanna River Park Trail

Oneonta Susquehanna Greenway
Silas Lane
Oneonta, NY 13820
Telephone: 607-547-4488
The Susquehanna River Park Trail, located in the City of Oneonta, is the first section of the Oneonta Susquehanna Greenway to be completed. A full circuit of the loop trail offers two miles of easy, flat. Interpretive markers are keyed to a leaflet obtainable at the trailhead.

Unadilla Game Farm

612 Prentice Gorge Rd
Unadilla, NY 13849
Telephone: 607-563-8973
They may not be as large as neighboring zoos but they have great animals at the Unadilla Game Farm. Founded in 1994, they started out showing reptiles to local school and scouts. Now they hold a NYSDEC license for endangered animals, and a USDA class C exhibitors license and are inspected by the NYSDEC, USDA and the Dept of Ag & Markets.