Devil's Cove Park
Monroe County’s newest park, Devil’s Cove Park is perhaps the most elusive of all the Monroe County Parks. It is located on the east shoreline of Irondequoit Bay and situated (appropriately) in Devil’s Cove. The park is only accessible by boat (unless you happen to live on a bordering property) and is obviously not visited by many people.
We had to take a canoe out to the park and launched from Irondequoit Bay West park from the public boat launch. It was approximately 2.5 miles and 40 minutes of hard paddling to get up to the Cove.
Being a beautiful sunny day, we had to compete with a ton of speed boats in Irondequoit Bay. We spent half of our paddling time turning the canoe into the wake of passing boats so we wouldn’t flip over, and almost did two or three times!
Shortly before we got to Devil’s Cove, we passed an area between the small island and the east shore that was extremely shallow. The water level was probably 3 feet or less–and people were really enjoying it! Floaters, boaters, waders, swimmers, all took advantage of the sun-warmed shallow water.
When we got to the short of Devil’s Cove we realized that that shallow water indicated low tide in the Bay. We weren’t able to get all the way to solid ground because there was about 20 feet of mud that was impassible. We climbed out, through the mud and made it to land, but that really soured our first experience of the park.
Devil’s Cove park is completely undeveloped. Besides the cool factor of being able to say you’ve been there, there is essentially no reason to visit. But hey, it’s a County Park and could totally turn into something amazing and possibly exclusive in the future.
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4 so farThis site is not the parks department. It cannot book anything. To rent a lodge or a shelter, go to Monroe County.
barbara
So how do we get to this elusive park and what is offered there? We canoe and kayak ..Where do we park the car to launch the boat to find it? Also, is there a way to tell which park is where on the map with evergreen trees? Like if I were to click on one?
Rochester Parks
Hey Barbara, here's a link to the path of the canoe I used to get to the park: https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=zMJO4JStg4CA.kLx-cLnCkaOY&usp=sharing I'll also embed it above on the page. You can see where we launched the canoe and where landed in Devil's Cove.
Eileen Wuorio
It is elusive because when you click on a link you get a survey which has nothing to do with the park. Apparently you have to take the survey to get to the information on the park. OK guys, how many times are we supposed to take the survey? Two times will not unlock it. I guess the park will continue to be elusive for me.
Rochester Parks
Apologies, Eileen! The surveys are meant to help support this free website. There should be five questions that you should have to answer, giving you complete access for 24 hours.