Bethpage State Park is a 1,476-acre park located on New York's Long Island. Bethpage is best known for its five world-class golf courses, but many visitors also flock to the park to use the picnic facilities, playing fields, tennis courts, a polo field, bridle paths, hiking and biking trails and cross-county skiing trails. The Long Island State Park Commission opened the park in the 1930s after the State of New York acquired the Benjamin F. Yoakum Estate. Bethpage State Park houses a restaurant and catering facilities, a Golf Pro Shop and driving range. The park also has a handicap accessible polo field. Matches are played every Sunday from June through October.
The park has five eighteen-hole golf courses, named the Black, Red, Blue, Green and Yellow. The world-renowned Black Course was the site of the U.S. Open Championship in 2002 and marked the first publicly owned and operated course to host the U.S. Open. Bethpage Black has been chosen to host the U.S. Open again in 2009. Golf Digest ranked Bethpage Black #29 of America's Greatest golf courses, #6 in the state of New York, and #6 of America's 50 toughest courses. Bethpage State Park uses an automated phone reservation system, for which golfers must be registered. For information on Bethpage State Park Golf Course, please call (516) 249-0700.
