Jamestown Parks & Recreation

McCrae Point Park is owned and operated by the City of Jamestown, New York. It’s a really small park but one that has a lot of history to it. Located on Jones and Gifford Avenue along the shores of the Chadakoin Outlet at digital GPS setting of 42.99 755, –79.253 011 it was the only site of organized Revolutionary military activity that took place in Chautauqua County, was an area visited and navigated by Capt. Celoron on his way down the Conewango to the Allegheny where he buried a lead plate as proof of claim of the surrounding lands in the name of France and served as the steam boat landing area for the many steamers including what I believe was the last, the «City of Jamestown,» that took passengers and mail up the Chadakoin into waters of Chautauqua Lake.
This is one of my most favorite of favorite parks because of its proximity along the Chadakoin which is shores are full of interesting wildlife such as wild ducks, frogs, tadpoles, salamanders, water snakes (harmless), bass, bullheads, bluegills & etc. As such it’s just great for kids as well as for me, a 70 year old who is still enjoying a happy childhood.
Though swimming isn’t advisable, fishing is good and for me, a Floridian, nothing fear of alligators, crocodiles, pythons, Portuguese Man of War jellyfish, skin slicing sawgrass or panthers. It does, however, have some blood sucking «skeeters» during summer months but with no vicious infestation nearly approaching those of the Everglades.