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Top spots for sledding on Long Island

Originally published: December 18, 2009 3:03 PM
Updated: January 1, 2012 4:38 PM
By MARK LA MONICA

Quick ReadOnce it snows, know where to go to enjoy sledding on Long Island.

Photo credit: Kathy Kmonicek | With school canceled for the day, Sean Valentine, 9, of Sea Cliff, enjoys sledding at North Shore Country Club on Wednesday. (Feb. 10, 2010)

In the days following a snowstorm, we lament the ice-breaking, the kicking all that muck off our tire wells and the general annoyance it still provides.

But in that first day of snow falling from the sky, we're awash with the joy and excitement of playing in the fresh white powder. Building forts, throwing snowballs, making snowmen. And, of course, sledding!

It's a right of passage growing...