Sound View Dunes Park — Attraction in Town of Southold

This is a very unique park and walk through multiple micro-ecosystems ranging from woods to dune, marine forest, wetlands and beach. It is large and spacious and not crowded. Since covid, xenophobic attitudes have resulted in a ridiculous sign and policy demanding papers to experience these outdoors. Signs define a community and this one makes me sad. In the very time in which we needed to be able to share our open spaces we said no. For the invisible population who live here and make so many things function- this resource became unavailable. ...

Beautiful unique park on the North Fork with healthy green pines growing on sand dunes. Not the typical maritime forest of Long Island shores or Pine Barrens that I like to hike. It is certainly a fragile ecosystem that should be protected, but “residents only” response to protection is seriously misguided as if the township got only role model residents… One of the ways to vet the visitors could be NYS DEC permit model that is successfully used in many Suffolk...

Reason for a 'residents only' sign is visitors and temp local workers came here and left trash, were obnoxious, drunk, loud, left fishing hooks and plastic line wire and some tried to sleep/live in tents on the nearby beach overnight. If people won't curb their awful behavior and think destroying precious nature is ok they don't need to be allowed there. No one has a...