A Guide to the city of Buffalo, Niagara Falls and the WNY
region. USA
Camp Out
Get the best camping gear.
Click
here to
Submit Event to "The Pipeline", a
monthly events calendar from ClassicBuffalo.com. Get the latest
Buffalo news, classics, WNY events info and more.
Click Here to Make Classic Buffalo Your Home Page
Hit Ctrl-D to Add this page to your Favorites menu.
This website is best viewed with a 1024x768 screen and IE8.
Thanks for visiting & please come again.
Many pages on this website are graphic intensive and may
take time to load, especially with slow access to the Internet. For more
info about the Greater Buffalo-Niagara, WNY region,
Visit our Home Page at:
www.classicbuffalo.com
Contact:
Webmaster.
Copyright © 2004 - 2011 ClassicBuffalo.com.
All rights reserved.
All text, images, audio and material on this site may not be used for profit, reprinted or
published without permission from the author.
Revised: 06/17/11
By using this website,
www.classicbuffalo.com, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
Western New York Outdoors
A Parks and Recreation Guide to locations for
outdoor adventures in WNY.
Emery Park
South Wales in the Town of Aurora,
Erie County.
|
Description:
A great place to have a picnic and enjoy numerous outdoor activities like
hiking, playgrounds, skiing and snowshoeing. There are facilities for all seasons and
shelters can be reserved and rented. The East Branch of Cazenovia Creek also passes thru
the northeast section of the park.
There are two entrances off Emery Road. The Main entrance is near the service area and the old Emery Inn. The Secondary entrance goes to Person Drive North and Harrigan Circle to the south. The northern section has baseball diamonds, tennis courts, xcountry ski trails, and the Ski Lodge. Richardson Road also has an old historic outdoor ampitheatre. There are two ravines with scenic views of small waterfalls. The southern section is a natural wooded area with snowmobile trail, a meadow, ravine, hemlock forest, ballfields, lodge, inn and playgrounds.
Unfortunately this park, like many
in Erie County, showed much deterioration during my visit. It was a shame
to see the neglect to another one of our once public jewels in the parks system
since 1925. Shelters, utilities, roads, buildings, trails were all in
disrepair. The only things that look like they are being worked on
nowadays is the lawn mowing, garbage removal and road debris removal. The
Master Plan surely didn't read like it looks here today. However, this is
still a fine park.
Maps:
Images: Click on a thumbnail pic to enlarge the image.
|
|
||||
|
|
||||
|
|
||||
|
|
||||
|
|
||||
|
|
||||
|
|
|||||
Other Related Sites:
Erie County Parks - Includes a
park map.
NYS DEC - Stocked East Branch
Cazenovia Creek with brown trout.
UB
Library - Buffalo Orienteering Club detail map.
Click here to return to the WNY Outdoors page.