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New York State Museum

America 's Oldest Science Parks

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See 460 million year-old volcaninc rock identical to that in the Guld of California at Stark's Knob.
Walk across a 490 million year-old fossil sea floor at Lester Park

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Outdoor, year-round geologic exhibits in Saratoga County, New York

Spring cabin fever?
Day off at Saratoga race track?
School science trip?

Visit Lester Park and Stark's Knob and learn about New York 's ancient natural heritage.

Interpretive signs at Lester Park and Stark's Knob teach you about geology and ancient life at America 's oldest science parks. Step out of your car at Lester Park and walk on a fossilized, tropical sea floor with stromatolites ["layered stones" made by "blue-green algae"]. At Stark's Knob, you will see a cliff of volcanic rock erupted under deep sea water during mountain building in eastern New York . This hill also formed the north side of the bottleneck that...British troops could not escape through after the Battle of Saratoga.

Getting There

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ALSO VISIT THE MUSEUM'S MAIN LOCATION IN ALBANY , NY . FOR INFORMATION: 518-474-5877 OR WWW.NYSM.NYSED.GOV

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The New York State Museum is a program of The University of the State of New York/The State Education Department

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