The most beautiful parks and gardens New York

With 19 waterfalls, Watkins Glen's park is the most famous Finger Lakes. Olympic swimming pool, hiking, camping, picnic, fishing, hunting, mountain biking, cross-country skiing… what to do. For those interested in the endangered flora, the park houses and preserves the wild flower rhodiola integrifolia.

Rose bushes on the East River.

The particularity of this place is the presence of plants mentioned in the Bible.

Bethpage State Park, located in Farmingdale, is best known for its five world-class golf courses, including the famous Black Course, which hosted the US Open Championship in 2002 and 2009, the Barclays in 2012 and 2016, the PGA Championship in 2019 and will host the Ryder Cup in 2025. Visitors also flock to the park to enjoy picnic facilities, playgrounds, tennis courts, hiking and biking trails, and cross-country ski trails. The park is also home to a restaurant, catering facilities, golf store and driving range.

Visiting the Hall of Science or the Queens Museum gives you the opportunity to take a walk in the huge Flushing Meadows wooded park, which houses the Unisphere, a steel globe built for the 1964-1965 World Expo. During the visit, we take the opportunity to see the tennis courts of the US Open, go boating on the lake, and wish Latin Americans a good appetite as they prepare some barbecue grills. An original experience.

Don't miss the view of Manhattan, the UN and the Chrysler Building from the banks of the East River south of Long Island City, from Gantry Plaza State Park. In addition to its exceptional panoramic view, this park is a true haven of tranquility. You come to enjoy its long walk by the water, picnic on its lawns, rest on its deckchairs... Not to be missed: the Pepsi-Cola sign, a relic from the time when the area housed a bottling plant for the famous soft drink, which closed in 1999.