. A state park plan for New York, with a proposal for the new park bond issue. Parks. SWIMMING MEET zations to take care of a greater number of their employees in summer vacation welfare camps. Some of these camps are also maintained throughout the year. Any acceptable organized group of families is provided for in a like manner with com- plete camps for each group. Cooked food, based on a dietary formulated by experts on child care, is sent in heat-retaining receptacles from Bear Moun- tain Inn to the camps, making unnecessary a food manufac- turing establishment at each camp. Food, of substa
. A state park plan for New York, with a proposal for the new park bond issue. Parks. SWIMMING MEET zations to take care of a greater number of their employees in summer vacation welfare camps. Some of these camps are also maintained throughout the year. Any acceptable organized group of families is provided for in a like manner with com- plete camps for each group. Cooked food, based on a dietary formulated by experts on child care, is sent in heat-retaining receptacles from Bear Moun- tain Inn to the camps, making unnecessary a food manufac- turing establishment at each camp. Food, of substantial quan- tity and of uniform quality, is thereby made available at a cost below that of cooking at camjD. Marked trails for hiking expeditions to points of historic and natural interest are extensively used by all the outdoor organizations and these organizations have rendered splendid assistance in the clearing and marking of these trails. The campers also use them for one-day and over-night hikes. Camps for individuals and families are maintained at Alpine, in the New Jersey section of the park; at Hook Mountain, in the New York section of the park and at Queensboro, three miles inland from Bear Mountain. The attendance, during the season of 1922, shows an increase of about 25 per cent, over the attendance of last season. A total. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original New York state association. Committee on state park plan. [New York, M. B. Brown printing & binding co. ]
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