Welcome sign at Lakeside Drive, the park road of Hempstead Lake State Park just west of Peninsula Boulevard (Nassau CR 2) in Rockville Centre, New York. The $8.00 vehicle use fee seemed to be invalid in September. Hempstead Lake State Park is in three different communities in the Town of Hempstead; This part is in Rockville Centre, most of the park is in Lakeview, and the segment north of the Southern State Parkway is in West Hempstead.