Parks & Gardens
🌾"fields of tall grass so big you feel like you're lost in Kansas"
🦅Over 200 bird species, including ospreys and kestrels
🌱"hums with new life"
Stand atop what was once the world's largest landfill, now a 2,200-acre wilderness where ospreys soar over tidal creeks and wildflowers carpet rolling hills. Freshkills Park is three times the size of Central Park and still growing: explore by bike, kayak, or guided hike while the landscape rewilds itself in real time.
Former landfill transformed
Massive urban wilderness
Guided access only
Rare bird watching
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Parks & Gardens🌾"fields of tall grass so big you feel like you're lost in Kansas"
🦅Over 200 bird species, including ospreys and kestrels
🌱"hums with new life"
Stand atop what was once the world's largest landfill, now a 2,200-acre wilderness where ospreys soar over tidal creeks and wildflowers carpet rolling hills. Freshkills Park is three times the size of Central Park and still growing: explore by bike, kayak, or guided hike while the landscape rewilds itself in real time.
Former landfill transformed
Massive urban wilderness
Guided access only
Rare bird watching
Google
(296)
4.1