Rockefeller State Park Preserve carriage roads
Photo: Simon Geisker · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
🥾 Hike · Pleasantville
3 hours · $ · No reservation needed
- 🚇About 60 min by subway or carFrom Midtown · Getting there: About 50 minutes by car, parking $6; or Metro-North to Tarrytown and a taxi
- 🍼Stroller-friendlyFlat surfaces — bring the stroller
- 🌳Some shadeGreat on sunny days · Good on cool days · Handles heat
- ⏱️Typical visit: 3 hoursBest seasons: Spring · Summer · Fall
A 1,700-acre estate donated by the Rockefeller family, with dozens of miles of smooth gravel carriage roads through woods, pastures and past Swan Lake; strollers and toddlers on foot both manage fine, you often see cows and turkeys, and it is the easiest trip into the hills anywhere near New York.
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