AT SUMMIT LAKE 



of 3,000,000 persons visited the New York section of the park 

 this season. In excess of the 50,000 group campers, which com- 

 prised 86 different groups, there were 3,000 individual campers 

 under canvas. 



The park areas which the Commission have developed are 

 being so intensively used that it is imperative that other avail- 

 able areas be developed as rapidly as possible. 



The number of daily visitors at Bear Mountain this season 

 so congested the docks, picnic groves, playfields, pavilions, 

 roads, parking spaces and other facilities that other develop- 

 ments of this kind must be made to meet the public demands 

 for this type of recreation. 



The automobile traffic has grown so rapidly and the present 

 drives are so congested that much progress must be made to- 

 ward the completion of the road system of the park within a 

 very few years to relieve this condition. 



The parking spaces along the present drives are inadequate 

 to meet the present demand and motor picnickers are compelled 

 to use these areas not yet provided with sanitary facilities oi 

 proper fire protection and so are greatly increasing the fire 



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