Fort Ontario, a former military camp in upstate New York that once housed European refugees during World War II, could become a new national park site.
The National Park Service gave the green light to the plan in a long-awaited study released Friday.
The agency said its six-year special resource study concluded that a gatehouse and three adjacent historic buildings at the site on 2 acres of land in Oswego, New York, “meets all congressionally established criteria for new additions to the national park system.”
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NPS sent its findings to Congress, which requested the study in 2018. But the agency noted that any final decision on a new park site must be made by Congress or the president.
