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Forests
Inwood Hill Park
A forest kept quiet · New York, United States
4.7★Rating
3,556Reviews
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Year-round; the ridge trails are best October–November for colour and April–May for the bird migrationBest time
The experience
196 acres at the northern tip of Manhattan holding the largest remaining old-growth forest on the island, one of its last saltwater marshes at Muscota Marsh, and the biggest glacial pothole in New York City. The central woodland was designated the Shorakapok Preserve in 1992 — shorakapok is Munsee for 'the sitting place', after the Wecquaesgeek village here — and was admitted to the Old-Growth Forest Network in 2024. Trails climb the folded, glacier-scoured ridge from the flats at Payson and Seaman Avenues up under the Henry Hudson Bridge. The A train to 207th Street and the 1 to 215th both land you at the gate.
Manhattan's only real forest, never logged, with 400-year-old trees still standing in it.
old-growthglacial ridgesalt marshgenuinely wild
Where it is
New York, United States · Inwood, Manhattan. Coordinates from the listing we sourced it from.
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