County: Greene  |   Attraction Types: Birding Trail, Outdoor Recreation, Park

The Lock 7 Recreation Area and West Damsite Park has a Southern and Northern component. The southern section is more open and park-like. It features a large parking area,picnic tables, and a shaded camping area. This section of the park also has higher bird activity. The woods surrounding the park have good numbers of woodland songbirds and woodpeckers. There are plenty of Eastern Bluebirds, Eastern Phoebes, and Eastern Kingbirds also in the open areas.

The northern section of the park consists of a paved parking pad and a boat ramp surrounded by a dense hardwood thicket. Here, you may be able to see or hear Northern Parulas and Prothonotary Warblers from April through September, and Yellow-billed Cuckoos all year.