The High Line
Photo: Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net). · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
🥾 Hike · Manhattan
1.5 hours · Free · No reservation needed
- 🚇About 15 min by subway or carFrom Midtown · Getting there: Subway A/C/E/L to 14 St–8 Av; the Gansevoort St entrance has an elevator
- 🍼Stroller-friendlyFlat surfaces — bring the stroller
- 🌳Little shadeGreat on sunny days · Good on cool days
- ⏱️Typical visit: 1.5 hoursBest seasons: Spring · Summer · Fall
An abandoned elevated rail line turned into a 1.5-mile garden in the sky: kids walk above the traffic looking out at the city, with wooden loungers to lie on, a tunnel that passes through a building, and the honeycomb-shaped Vessel at the Hudson Yards end.
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Manhattan, New York
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