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Sand Lake Veterans Memorial Park offers a peaceful, pet-friendly experience for both locals and visitors in Averill Park, NY. While its primary focus is a beautiful, well-maintained memorial honoring local service members from multiple wars, the park also welcomes dogs, making it an inviting spot for dog owners seeking a relaxing outdoor experience with their pets.
This memorial park stands out with its wheelchair accessible entrance and parking, level grounds, and no entry fee. Its central location on Route 43 makes it convenient to find, though the park maintains a tranquil small-town charm that appeals to families and dog owners alike. Parking is available along the entrance road and further past the monuments. Please note that the park doesn’t have specific dog park infrastructure such as fenced areas, agility equipment, or dedicated off-leash zones, but its open grounds and pet-friendly attitude provide a welcoming atmosphere.
Excellent place, well maintained. Nice job
Thank you for your service!
Wonderful small town memorial. No large gates or signs. It’s right on 43 and easy to miss, if you’re not from the area and expecting more park infrastructure than what’s actually present. No cost. Limited parking along park entrance road close to the monuments. Additional parking a couple hundred yards beyond. Monuments are on level ground with/from parking; wheelchair accessible. Beautiful markers, particularly notable are the individual tablets commemorating service members from each of the World Wars. Behind the flagpoles lies a long low Vietnam Wall-style monument commemorating service members from the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, OIF/OEF, and more. Organization is mixed; by conflict, alphabetically, and/or chronologically at times. Others, which appear to be later additions, are batched by family surname. There are names missing (some of my family’s included), but plenty of space to add them. I’ll research the process. Plenty of space too, unfortunately, for our fallen in the future.
Great memorial for those from this small town. They will never be forgotten!
Very nice small town family oriented Memorial