Park Data

Location:
7676 Old Lake Shore Road | Derby, NY 14047

Facilities:
Lakes/Ponds, Picnic Facilities

  

"Most Romantic Beach"

History

Wendt Beach Park is a 170-acre lake front estate and was used as the Henry W. Wendt, Jr. family's summer residence, which they later renamed the "The Ridgewood."

The grounds present a panorama of cropped lawns and colorful flower gardens with occasional benches, and a picket fence. Structures reflect an earlier era of affluence: a log cabin, once a playhouse and a guest house; a caretaker's cottage; a garage with chauffeur's quarters; stables; now public restrooms; the pump house, where water brought in from Lake Erie was stored in a large tank and pumped through pipes to outside spigots for watering the gardens.

The interior of the main house is a remembrance of beautiful hardwood floors, a spiral staircase, and railings of dark wood, window seats and bay windows, which many of which overlook the lake and beach areas.

Park Features

• Birds
  Songbirds, waterfowl, and shorebirds are some of the migratory birds that can be watched and photographed.



• Water Life
  Pan fish, catfish, walleyes, northern pike, bass, perch and muskies are always there to challenge all anglers in Lake Erie.