How long is lake ronkonkoma

No special permit is needed to launch a boat or fish from the site. Due to its proximity to some of the best habitat in the lake, the fishing pier is highly recommended as a shore fishing spot.

Seasonal parking fees may apply. Additionally seasonal park fees may apply for parking in certain locations. For more information about hours of operation and park fees call the Lake Ronkonkoma County Park at Make a right onto Victory Drive.

The boat launch entrance, marked with a wooden DEC sign, will appear on your left. Restrictions: Boats are permitted but may only be launched from the DEC boat launch. Electric trolling motors are a allowed; gas motors are prohibited. Shoreline access is available. As a rule of thumb, it is unproductive to fish deeper than 15 feet in Lake Ronkonkoma because there is seldom enough dissolved oxygen to sustain fish beyond this depth.

The primary gamefish are largemouth bass and smallmouth bass. Elevation is 72 feet. Post Office in Ronkonkoma, NY. The Native Indians and European settlers both observed that the water level in the area tends to rise and fall out of proportion to local precipitation.

It spread over almost acres which the water body has been conserved with great care. The Lake Ronkonkoma County Park includes a fishing area, baseball fields, handball courts, basketball courts, a handicapped accessible playground, and a picnic area.

The Lake Ronkonkoma Historical Society. Lake Ronkonkoma is the largest freshwater lake on Long Island and it surrounds the lake itself which is in the jurisdiction by three different townships namely the Islip , Brookhaven , and Smithtown. The area was once a resort town until it experienced a sudden increase of population in the mids.

Local legend and urban myth has it known to residents that a disgruntled Indian princess cursed the Lake Ronkonkoma so that each and every year a male would drown in the Lake. Lake Ronkonkoma was considered the most sacred lake by the Indians and it was also their meeting point.

Legend has it that in the s, a young Setauket Indian princess named Tuskawanta fell madly in love with a blond bearded woodcutter she spotted one day across the water. In one version of the spooky Suffolk County saga, the Native American Juliet catches the eye of her Romeo woodsman, Hugh Birdsall, and he becomes equally entranced with her — but her father forbids her from seeing the white English settler.

The distraught princess then spends every day for the next seven years writing Birdsall love letters on pieces of bark and trying to send them to him by floating them across the water. She never gets a response, and in despair, finally rows out into the middle of the lake and stabs herself in the heart. There were at least drownings at the lake between the mid- to late s and late s, averaging well over one a year — and only three victims were women, said former longtime Lake Ronkonkoma lifeguard David Igneri, 74, citing his own research.

In reality, the lake is nearly 90 feet at its deepest, around 10 feet along the edges and at some point, features a dangerous sudden foot drop. Virginia Schutte, 72, who lives on the edge of the lake, said her uncle was a lifeguard there — briefly — when she was little. It means the search is on for yet another body. Call the town.

Tell them. Igneri said he had his own possible brush with Tuskawanta about four or five years ago.