Yaman Park — Attraction in City of Cortland

The park itself is lovely. Clean, lots of picnic tables, some with little pavilions. BBQ grills. A playground, skate park, and a couple large pavilions to rent. There is a gazebo closer to the river. It's a nice place to eat and take a walk. There is a small sand beach. My only complaints are that the summer swimming is never open long enough, and the swim half of the pond is divided into a little kid section and a regular section (with a shallow and deep divided section). My daughter had a little live vest on and they said she's only allowed to wear it in the little kids section, which doesn't make sense because it seems like it's only a foot deep. She wouldn't need it to "swim" in a...

Always a great place for children to play and for family picnics, fishing, swimming, feeding the ducks and geese, etc. I would have given 5 stars except bathroom facilities are not available year round and were not available at all during the pandemic (not even port-a-johns) and the playground is in need of some updates and repairs. There is nylon coated cable rope that has wire fibers poking out and the children poke their hands, handles are broken on the teeter totter and they could really use some rubber matting instead of gravel on the ground....Im curious if the wood portion of the playground is the carcinogenic type that was removed from...

Nice park and beach but the lifeguards are way too controlling. They run it like their own territory. Constantly screaming into their megaphones about the rules. No laying in puddles on the beach (even while wearing a life jacket). No touching in the water. No splashing. Then every 1 hour everyone needs to get out of the water and listen to the lifeguards go over the rules on the megaphone. Nice water fountain in the middle of the lake. It was hard for me since single parent of 4. Some wanted to go to deep end and some wanted to stay on the beach. The lifeguards would constantly tell me to stay with...