Utica Marsh Wildlife Management Area — Attraction in City of Utica

This place is the Secret Garden- no longer accessible from the original entrance, and mostly full of remnants of glory days. That said, inside it is beautiful with nice trails and lookouts. Two entrances I found: a meandery bike trail, that is accessible from across the street from the Marcy Car Wash/Dunkin Donuts, and the other which is accessible from a parking lot by Aqua Vino Restaurant. So hard to find, but...

From the pictures It seems to be a pleasant place to go to , But what made me give it One Star was the Impossibility of finding how to get into the site We Wasted 20 minutes plus trying to find an opening into the marshland...

We saw numerous discarded hypodermics, dozens of broken bottles, a trashed old bathtub, graffiti, and even a hidden tent with somebody in it. Fortunately no encounters with any of the indigenous peoples. Oh, and there were...