New York Parks and Recreation Areas

Gateway NRA is a 26,000 acre recreation area located in the heart of the New York metropolitan area. The park extends through three New York City boroughs and into northern New Jersey. read more...

Phone: (718) 338-3988   Price Range: N/A   Open Season: N/A   Camping: Yes
Nearest Popular City: Staten Island   Nearest Lake or River: N/A   Park Type: National Park   Activities: Biking / Bicycling, Birding, Boating and Watercraft, Fishing, Hiking, Horseback Riding, Swimming, Wildlife Watching, Auto Touring, Nature Walks, Interpretive Programs, Star Gazing   Details Provided By: Gateway

26 Wall Street was the site of New York City's 18th century City Hall. Here John Peter Zenger was jailed, tried, and acquitted of libel for exposing government corruption in his newspaper, an early victory for freedom of the press. City Hall hosted the Stamp Act Congress, which assembled in October 1765, to protest taxation without representation. read more...

Phone: (212) 825-6888   Price Range: N/A   Open Season: N/A   Camping: No
Nearest Popular City: New York   Nearest Lake or River: N/A   Park Type: National Park   Activities: Interpretive Programs   Details Provided By: Federal Hall National Memorial

Visit Fort Stanwix, where our shared heritage comes alive everyday, and explore the sights, sounds, smells and feel of the 18th century. Discover how people endured harsh lives along the Oneida Carrying Place, the superhighway of the 18th century, and directly contributed to the American victory at Saratoga and westward expansion through New Yorks gateway to the west. read more...

Phone: 315-336-2090   Price Range: N/A   Open Season: Apr 01 - Dec 31   Camping: No
Nearest Popular City: Rome   Nearest Lake or River: N/A   Park Type: National Monument   Activities: Interpretive Programs   Details Provided By: Fort Stanwix

The National Parks of New York Harbor represents a collaboration, or organizational network, of these parks: Gateway National Recreation Area, Governors Island, Manhattan Sites and Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island, as well as one affiliated site, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. read more...

Phone: 718-354-4551   Price Range: N/A   Open Season: N/A   Camping: Yes
Nearest Popular City: New York   Nearest Lake or River: N/A   Park Type: National Park   Activities: Backpacking, Biking / Bicycling, Birding, Boating and Watercraft, Fishing, Hiking, Kayaking, Swimming, Wildlife Watching, Auto Touring, Nature Walks, Interpretive Programs, Star Gazing, Tours   Details Provided By: National Parks of New York Harbor

The Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor was established on December 21, 2000 (P.L. 106-554, Title VIII, Sec. 801). The Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor covers 524 miles in Upstate New York, including four navigable waterways: Erie, Champlain, Oswego and Cayuga-Seneca; sections of the first Erie Canal; and over 200 municipalities adjacent to the canals. read more...

Phone: 518-237-8643   Price Range: N/A   Open Season: N/A   Camping: No
Nearest Popular City: Waterford   Nearest Lake or River: N/A   Park Type: National Park   Activities: Biking / Bicycling, Birding, Boating and Watercraft, Cross Country Skiing, Fishing, Hiking, Kayaking, Nature Walks, Snowshoeing   Details Provided By: Erie Canalway

To better understand this monumental work of art, visitors will be able to view inside the Statue through a glass ceiling, guided by a park ranger and an enhanced lighting and new video system. In addition, visitors can walk out onto the Statues observation deck to see the panoramic views of New York City and the Harbor, and witness the Statue up close from her promenade and Ft. Wood. read more...

Phone: (212) 363-3200   Price Range: $4 - $10   Open Season: N/A   Camping: No
Nearest Popular City: New York   Nearest Lake or River: N/A   Park Type: National Park   Activities: Birding, Interpretive Programs   Details Provided By: Statue Of Liberty National Monument

This memorial to Ulysses S. Grant, victorious Union commander of the Civil War, includes the tomb of General Grant and his wife, Julia Dent Grant. A West Point graduate, Grant served in the Mexican War and at various frontier posts, before rapidly rising through the ranks during the Civil War. read more...

Phone: (212) 666-1640   Price Range: N/A   Open Season: N/A   Camping: No
Nearest Popular City: New York   Nearest Lake or River: N/A   Park Type: National Park   Activities:   Details Provided By: General Grant

Hamilton Grange National Memorial, located at 287 Convent Avenue, preserves the home of founding father Alexander Hamilton. Born and raised in the West Indies, Hamilton came to New York in 1772 at age 17 to study finance at King's College (now Columbia University). read more...

Phone: (212) 283-5154   Price Range: N/A   Open Season: N/A   Camping: No
Nearest Popular City: New York   Nearest Lake or River: N/A   Park Type: National Park   Activities: Tours   Details Provided By: Hamilton Grange National Memorial

Chartered in l988, the Tenement Museum mission is to promote tolerance and historical perspective through the presentation and interpretation of a variety of immigrant and migrant experiences on Manhattan Lower East Side, a gateway to America. The heart of the Tenement Museum is its tenement building that was home to an estimated 7,000 people, from over 20 nations, between 1863 and 1935. read more...

Phone: (212) 431-0233   Price Range: $8 - $10   Open Season: N/A   Camping: No
Nearest Popular City: New York   Nearest Lake or River: N/A   Park Type: National Historic Site   Activities:   Details Provided By: Lower East Side Museum

For more that two centuries, Governors Island, just a half a mile away from the southern tip of Manhattan in New York harbor, has been a mystery to most observers, or perhaps more typically just overlooked by the commanding vista dominated by the neighboring Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. read more...

Phone: 212-514-8296   Price Range: $3 - $5   Open Season: N/A   Camping: No
Nearest Popular City: New York   Nearest Lake or River: N/A   Park Type: National Monument   Activities:   Details Provided By: Governors Island National Monument