Visit Hawkins Point
Welcome to the Hawkins Point Visitors Center
The Hawkins Point Visitors Center is open Monday through Friday from 9 am - 5 pm. We've missed you and we hope to see you soon.
Visitors are encouraged to follow their own comfort levels with respect to masks and social distancing, but consistent with New York State guidelines indoor mask wearing is no longer required in this setting. We will continue to post updates as they become available. Please call us with any questions at 315-764-6679.
Hawkins Point Visitors Center
21 Hawkins Point Road.
Massena, NY,
315-764-6679
Open Monday through Friday from 9 am to 5 pm
Free, Family-Friendly Fun!
Did you know?
For the first time in 20 years the magnificent walnut wood carving map portraying the passage through the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the St. Lawrence River in the 16th century by the French Explorer Jacques Cartier is on display.
The "Voyages of Discovery of Jacques Cartier" map:
Power & Play
Enjoy the Power Generation Journey in a Dramatic Setting at the Hawkins Point Visitors Center.
The Frank S. McCullough, Jr. Hawkins Point Visitors Center and Boat Launch at the St. Lawrence-FDR Project offers panoramic views of the Power Project and interactive exhibits that let you experience and understand hydropower and electricity. Family-friendly and admission-free, we look forward to welcoming you.
- Exhibit Generation You: While the enormous hydro power plant outside generates power for millions, you can generate your own power with your legs on our cycle generator.
- Exhibit Sparks Fly (safely): Invented in 1929, the Van de Graaff machine is still used to generate particle and x-ray beams in nuclear medicine and other applications. Ours just makes your hair stand on end—which is a lot more fun!
- Exhibit Terrain Tour: The St. Lawrence is one of earth's great bodies of water. Our terrain exhibit charts its course from Ogdensburg to Massena.
Adjacent to Hawkins Point on Barnhart Island is Robert Moses State Park, which offers wooded campsites and cabins, a marina and boat launch, some of the best fishing in the Northeast, picnic areas, a swimming beach, tennis courts and the Nicandri Nature Center with its amazing indoor exhibits, beautiful outdoor trails and more.
