Spanning 27,000 acres from Sandy Hook in New Jersey to Breezy Point in New York City, the park is both the gateway from the ocean into New York Harbor, and the gateway to the National Park Service for millions of visitors every year. Gateway offers green spaces and beaches alongside historic structures and cultural landscapes. Every day, Gateway is open for you to explore, envision, and enjoy!
What you’ll hear
80 places to explore in this park.
- 20 Inch Rodman Gun
- Bachelors Officers' Quarters or BOQ
- Barracks 22 and 74
- Barracks 25, the "WAC Palace"
- Barracks Rows and Mess Halls
- Battery Caitlin
- Battery Granger
- Battery Gunnison
- Battery Kingman
- Battery Mills
- Battery Peck
- Battery Potter
- Battery Weed
- Bayside
- Before you go: Ospreys
- Canarsie Pier
- Company, attention!
- Eastern Red Cedar
- Eastern Red Cedar Stop
- Floyd Bennett Field
- Floyd Bennett Field Archery Range
- Fort Tilden
- Fort Tompkins
- Fort Tompkins
- Fort Wadsworth
- Fort Wadsworth Overlook
- Fort Wadsworth Overlook
- Fort Wadsworth Visitor Center
- Fort Wadsworth Visitor Center return
- Frank Charles Park
- Golden Barrens
- Great Kills Park
- Guardian Park Missiles
- Hamilton Beach Park
- History House - Officers Row Building #1
- Holly Forest Stop
- Horseshoe Crabs
- Hospital
- Jacob Riis Park
- Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
- Lock 'em up!
- Marching Around the Parade Grounds: Introduction
- Miller Field
- Mont Sec Avenue
- Mortar Battery
- Multi Use Path
- Nike Missiles And Launch Site
- Nine Gun Battery
- North Channel Bridge
- Officers Row
- Osprey Platform
- Plumb Beach
- Pollinator Garden and Conclusion
- Pond Community
- Post Headquarters
- Prickly Pear Cactus
- Prickly Pear Cactus-1
- Primary Dunes
- Quarantine Islands
- Sandy Hook - Beach A
- Sandy Hook - Beach B
- Sandy Hook - Beach C
- Sandy Hook - Beach D
- Sandy Hook - Beach G (Gunnison Beach)
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse
- Sandy Hook - North Beach (Lot I)
- Sandy Hook Proving Ground
- South Garden
- South Marsh Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
- Spring Creek
- The Dead House
- Torpedo Shed
- Torpedo Shed
- Trailhead
- Trees and Seeds
- U.S. Life-Saving Station
- Visitor Center, Introduction and History
- Welcome
- West Pond
- Young Men's Christian Association
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