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Van Cortlandt Park
A trail people talk about · New York, United States
4.6★Rating
9,108Reviews
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Year-round; the fall colour on the Putnam Trail is the reason to time it for late OctoberBest time
The experience
1,146 acres, the third-largest park in New York City, and the only one where the subway drops you at a trailhead. Five long trails cross it, including the Putnam Trail on the roadbed of the old New York and Putnam Railroad, the Old Croton Aqueduct Trailway over the buried 1842 aqueduct, and the John Kieran Nature Trail. Van Cortlandt Lake is the largest freshwater lake in the Bronx; the 6.2-mile cross-country course is where the city's schools race. The 1748 Van Cortlandt House, the 1749 Vault Hill family burial ground and the 1895 golf course — the oldest public course in the United States — are all inside the boundary.
A subway ride that ends at a railbed you can walk north on until you leave New York City.
abandoned railbedaqueductbig lakewalk out of the city
Where it is
New York, United States · Kingsbridge and Woodlawn, the Bronx. Coordinates from the listing we sourced it from.
DirectionsWhat a membership adds.
Everything above is free: the name, the photo, the rating, the exact spot. What members get is the part you can't Google: the sourced insider tip for this place (what to order, when to go, what to skip), every day of your trips unlocked in full with the insider tip on every researched stop, and the concierge at full strength, answering with your own insider tips, no daily meter.
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