Just in time for the start of summer, Watkins Glen State Park is sporting a new look.

The lower entrance was rededicated this morning. It includes $6 million in improvements, from new shaded areas to large green spaces. It's the first major renovation in nearly a century.

“In 1924 the Finger Lakes state park commission, they took over the management of the park and then there have been improvements and things along the way but none of this significance, which I think this will go down in history of adding interpretation -- a welcoming center, those types of things that never even existed before so when you put something in that hasn't existed before I think it's definitely going to be noteworthy in history," said Ron Roney, the Park Manager.

The project was paid for through the governor's 2020 Park initiative.