Thousand Island Park, New York


Thousand Island Park is a hamlet and census-designated place in the town of Orleans, Jefferson County, New York, United States, in the Thousand Islands region on the St. Lawrence River. The community includes the Thousand Island Park Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. As of the 2010 census, the population was 31 permanent residents, although there were 323 housing units, indicating a much greater seasonal population.

Geography

Thousand Island Park is in the northern part of the town of Orleans, at the southwest end of Wellesley Island, one of the largest of the Thousand Islands. It is bordered to the east by Wellesley Island State Park. The community is reached by automobile using County Route 100, which leads northeast to Interstate 81 at Exit 51.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the Thousand Island Park CDP has a total area of, all of it recorded as land.
Rock Island Light is southeast of Thousand Island Park in the middle of the south channel of the St. Lawrence, known as American Narrows, and Fishers Landing is directly across the narrows on the mainland, southeast of the community.