Gateway National Recreation Area

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Gateway National Recreation Area
IUCN Category V (Protected Landscape/Seascape)

Location	New York & New Jersey, USA
Nearest city	New York City, New York
Area	26,607 acres (107.67 km²)
Established	October 27, 1972
Visitors	8,294,353 (in 2005)
Governing body	National Park Service

Gateway National Recreation Area is a 26,607 acre (107.67 km²) National Recreation Area in the New York City metropolitan area. It was created by the US Congress in 1972 to preserve and protect scarce and/or unique natural, cultural, and recreational resources. It is owned by the United States government and managed by the National Park Service. The park comprises four separate units located in three boroughs of New York City and one county in central New Jersey. Law enforcement is the responsibility of the United States Park Police in the New York units, and of commissioned park rangers in the New Jersey unit. Three of the four units include popular swimming beaches. The area drew more than 8 million visitors in 2005 and is consistently among the 10 most visited units of the National Park System, surpassing more familiar parks such as Yellowstone and Grand Canyon.

Jamaica Bay Unit includes much of the shoreline and water below the Shore Parkway beginning at Plum Beach and ending at Kennedy International Airport. In addition, several dozen islands in Jamaica Bay, along with the water itself, is designated the only "wildlife refuge" in the National Park System (usually, "wildlife refuges" are a US Fish & Wildlife Service function).

Jamaica Bay Coastal Landscapes at Gateway

The bay is a tidal estuary off the southern parts of the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens. The unit has a visitors center named for William Fitts Ryan (the congressman who championed Gateway's creation) that has been under development for many years at the historic former airport - Floyd Bennett Field. Additional amenities include a number of concessions, including a public stable and equestrian trails, a public marina, and a multi-purpose sports/entertainment complex. A visitor contact station specifically for the wildlife refuge is accessible by automobile, transit buses, and a subway station within walking distance to the trail system on Rulers Bar Hassock, the main island. This is the only portion of the refuge accessible to the general public. Access to the other islands is prohibited. The 9,000-plus acre refuge includes much of the waters and almost all of the remaining marsh islands in Jamaica Bay, which are protected. This is the only unit that does not have bathing beaches. The Jamaica Bay Unit also contains an inholding: the community of Broad Channel. Fishing, nature-viewing, aviation history, photography, boating, cycling, and sailing are the most popular activities within this unit.

Breezy Point Unit is located in Rockaway, Queens, New York. It stretches to the tip of Rockaway Point and includes Jacob Riis Park and Fort Tilden, each with districts listed in the National Register of Historic Places. It preserves, in part, some of the last remaining natural dunes in the area, and is home to at least two endangered species (piping plover, and beach tiger beetle). The unit contains two significant inholdings: the communities of Breezy Point and Roxbury. The life-guarded beach and historic Bath House area in the summer months receive most of this unit's annual visitation. Fishing, swimming, nature-viewing, cycling, and sunbathing are the most popular activities.

Staten Island Unit is located on the south shore of Staten Island within Lower New York Bay. It includes Fort Wadsworth, an historic collection of masonry fortifications on the site of much earlier fortifications; Miller Field, an historic former airfield south of New Dorp; as well as Great Kills Park on Great Kills Harbor - which includes a marina concession. Also within this unit are Hoffman and Swinburne Islands, both off-limits to visitation and managed primarily for the benefit of avian species. Organized sports, nature-viewing, sailing, boating, sunbathing and military history are the most popular activities.

Sandy Hook Unit is in Monmouth County in northern New Jersey. The barrier peninsula Sandy Hook is home to the historic former Fort Hancock, as well as the oldest continuously operating lighthouse in America (1764). The unit also includes Gunnison Beach, a "Nude beach" by custom. Ferries from Manhattan in New York are available in season. Sunbathing, swimming, fishing, cycling, nature-viewing, and military history are the most popular activities.

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Typical landscapes along Jamaica Bay	Typical flora of Jamaica Bay shores	Typical flora of the coastal edge at Gateway	Plumb Beach situated in Brooklyn, is a part of Gateway
The beach at Jacob Riis Park

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v • d • e Protected Areas of New Jersey

National Park Service	Statue of Liberty National Monument • Morristown National Historical Park • Edison National Historic Site • Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area • Gateway National Recreation Area • Great Egg Harbor Scenic and Recreational River • Middle Delaware National Scenic River • New Jersey Pinelands National Reserve • New Jersey Coastal Heritage Trail Route

State Parks	Allaire • Allamuchy Mountain • Barnegat Lighthouse • Cape May Point • Cheesequake • Corson's Inlet • Delaware and Raritan Canal • Double Trouble • Farny • Fort Mott • Hacklebarney • High Point • Hopatcong • Island Beach • Kittatinny Valley • Liberty • Long Pond Ironworks • Monmouth Battlefield • Parvin • Pigeon Swamp • Princeton Battlefield • Rancocas • Ringwood • Stephens • Swartswood • Voorhees • Washington Crossing • Washington Rock • Wawayanda

State Forests	Abram S. Hewitt • Bass River • Belleplain • Brendan T. Byrne • Jenny Jump • Norvin Green • Penn • Ramapo Mountain • Stokes • Wharton • Worthington

State Marinas	Senator Frank S. Farley • Forked River • Fortescue • Leonardo • Liberty Landing

Recreation Areas	Atsion • Bull's Island • Round Valley • Spruce Run

Other	Spring Meadow Golf Course

New Jersey Division of Parks and Forestry

v • d • e Protected Areas of New York

National Park Service	African Burial Ground National Monument • Castle Clinton National Monument • Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site • Federal Hall National Memorial • Fire Island National Seashore • Fort Stanwix National Monument • Gateway National Recreation Area • General Grant National Memorial • Governors Island National Monument • Hamilton Grange National Memorial • Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site • Martin Van Buren National Historic Site • Saint Paul's Church National Historic Site • Sagamore Hill National Historic Site • Saratoga National Historical Park • Statue of Liberty National Monument • Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site • Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site • Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site • Women's Rights National Historical Park

National Forests	Finger Lakes

State Parks	Allen H. Treman • Allegany • Amherst • Battle Island • Bayard Cutting Arboretum • Bayswater Point • Bear Mountain • Beaver Island • Beechwood • Belmont Lake • Bethpage • Betty & Wilbur Davis • Big Six Mile Creek • Blauvelt • Bonavista • Bowman Lake • Braddock Bay • Brentwood • Bristol Beach • Brookhaven • Buckhorn Island • Buffalo Harbor • Burnham Point • Buttermilk Falls • Caleb Smith • Camp Hero • Canandaigua Lake • Canoe-Picnic Point • Captree • Catharine Valley Trail • Caumsett • Cayuga Lake • Cedar Island • Cedar Point • Chenango Valley • Cherry Plain • Chimney Bluffs • Chittenango Falls • Clarence Fahnestock • Clark Reservation • Clay Pit Ponds • Cold Spring Harbor • Coles Creek • Conesus Lake • Connetquot River • Crab Island • Croil Island • Cumberland Bay • Darien Lakes • De Veaux Woods • Dean's Cove • Delta Lake • Devil's Hole • Dewolf Point • Donald J. Trump • Earl W. Brydges • Eel Weir • Emma Treadwell Thacher • Empire–Fulton Ferry • Evangola • Fahnestock • Fair Haven Beach • Fillmore Glen • Fort Niagara • Four Mile Creek • Franklin D. Roosevelt • Frenchman Island • Galop Island • Gantry Plaza • Gilbert Lake • Gilgo • Glimmerglass • Golden Hill • Goosepond Mountain • Grafton Lakes • Grass Point • Green Lakes • Hamlin Beach • Harriet Hollister Spencer • Harriman • Haverstraw Beach • Heckscher • Hempstead Lake • High Tor • Highland Lakes • Higley Flow • Hither Hills • Honeoye • Hook Mountain • Hudson Highlands • Hudson River Islands • Hudson River • Hunt's Pond • Iona Island • Irondequoit Bay • Jacques Cartier • James Baird • Jamesport • John Boyd Thacher • Jones Beach • Joseph Davis • Keewaydin • Keuka Lake • Know Farm • Kring Point • Lake Erie • Lake Superior • Lake Taghkanic • Lakeside Beach • Letchworth • Lock 32 • Lodi Point • Long Island • Long Point - Finger Lakes • Long Point - Thousand Islands • Long Point on Lake Chautauqua • Macomb Reservation • Margaret Lewis Norrie • Mark Twain • Mary Island • Max V. Shaul • Mexico Point • Midway • Mine Kill • Minnewaska • Montauk Downs • Montauk Point • Moreau Lake • Napeague • Newtown Battlefield • Niagara Falls • Nissequogue River • Nyack Beach • Oak Orchard • Ogden Mills & Ruth Livingston Mills • Old Croton Aqueduct • Old Erie Canal • Oquaga Creek • Orient Beach • Peebles Island • Pinnacle • Pixley Falls • Point Au Roche • Reservoir • Riverbank • Robert G. Wehle • Robert H. Treman • Robert Moses - Long Island • Robert Moses - Thousand Islands • Robert V. Riddell • Roberto Clemente • Rockefeller • Rockland Lake • Sampson • Sandy Island Beach • Saratoga Lake • Saratoga Spa • Schodack Island • Schunemunk Mountain • Selkirk Shores • Seneca Lake • Shadmoor • Shaver Pond Nature Center • Silver Lake • Sonnenberg Gardens & Mansion • Southwick Beach • St. Lawrence • State Park at the Fair • Sterling Forest • Stony Brook • Storm King • Sunken Meadow • Taconic Outdoor Education Center • Taconic - Copake Falls Area • Taconic - Rudd Pond Area • Tallman Mountain • Taughannock Falls • Theodore Roosevelt Nature Center • Thompson's Lake • Tioga • Trail View • Valley Stream • Verona Beach • Waterson Point • Watkins Glen • Wellesley Island • Westcott Beach • Whetstone Gulf • Whirlpool • Wildwood • Wilson-Tuscarora • Wonder Lake • Woodlawn Beach

Nature Conservancy Preserves	Eugene and Agnes Meyer Nature Preserve • Santanoni Preserve • Arthur W. Butler Memorial Sanctuary • Indian Brook Assemblage • Marrion Yarrow Preserve • Mildred E. Grierson Memorial Wildlife Sanctuary • Mount Holly Preserve • Long Pond Preserve • Mianus River Gorge Nature Preserve • Henry Morgenthau Preserve • Mount Holly Sanctuary • Otter Creek Preserve • Uplands Farm Nature Sanctuary • Atlantic Double Dunes • Pine Neck Nature Sanctuary • Long Island Center for Conservation • Ruth Wales Sanctuary • Calverton Ponds • Accabonac Harbor • Peconic Estuary Big Woods Preserve • Mashomack Nature Preserve • Montauk Mountain Preserve • Shadmoor Preserve • Andy Warhol Visual Arts Preserve • Coon Mountain Preserve • Gadway Sandstone Pavement Barrens • Silver Lake Bog Preserve • Spring Pond Bog Preserve • Everton Falls Preserve • Clintonville Pine Barrens • O.D. von Engeln Preserve at Malloryville • El Dorado Beach Preserve • Chaumont Barrens Preserve • Freund Wildlife Sanctuary • Lewis A. Swyer Preserve • Hannacroix Ravine Preserve • Kenrose Preserve • Limestone Rise Preserve • Whitbeck Memorial Grove • Stewart Preserve • Lordsland Conservancy • Nellie Hill Preserve • Pawling Nature Reserve • Roger Perry Memorial Preserve • Thompson Pond and Stissing Mountain Preserve • Schunemunk Mountain Preserve • Sam's Point Preserve • Christman Sanctuary • Lisha Kill Natural Area • Moccasin Kill Sanctuary • Denton Sanctuary • Lower Poultney River and Saddles Preserves • West Branch Preserve

State Forests	Allen Lake • Altmar • Ambler • Armlin Hill • Arnold Lake • Artic China • Ashland Pinnacle • Baker School House • Bald Mountain • Balsam • Balsam Swamp • Barbour Brook • Basswood • Basswood Pond • Bates • Battenkill • Battle Hill • Beals Pond • Bear Creek • Bear Swamp • Bearpen Mountain • Beartown • Beaver Creek • Beaver Dams • Beaver Flow • Beaver Meadow • Beebe Hill • Berlin • Big Brook • Big Buck • Birdseye Hollow • Black Creek • Blenheim • Bobell • Bombay • Bonaparte's Cave • Boutwell Hill • Boyce Hill • Brasher Falls • Brokenstraw • Brookfield Railroad • Broome • Bryant Hill • Buck Hill • Bucks Brook • Buckton • Bucktooth • Bully Hill • Bumps Creek • Burnt-Rossman Hills • Burnt Hill • Bush Hill • Cadyville • Cairo Lockwood • Calhoun Creek • California Hill • California Road • Cameron Mills • Cameron • Canacadea • Canada Creek • Canaseraga • Cascade Valley • Cat Hollow • Cattaraugus • Catherineville • Catlin • Chalres E. Baker • Charleston • Chateaugay • Chautauqua Gorge • Chenango • Cherry Valley • Chestnut Woods • Cinnamon Lake • Clapper Hollow • Clark Hill • Cliffside • Clinton • Cobb Brook • Cobb Creek State Forest • Cold Creek • Cold Spring Brook • Cole Hill • Columbia Lake • Coon Hollow • Cotton Hill • Cotrell • Coventry • Coyle Hill • Coyote Flats • Crab Hollow • Crary Mills • Cuyler Hill • Daketown • Danby • Dannemora • Decatur • Deer River • Degrasse • Delaware • Depot Hill • Deruyter • Dobbins • Dog Hollow • Donahue Woods • Downerville • Dry Run • Dunkin's Reserve • Dutch Settlement • Dutton Ridge • Earlville • East Branch Fish Creek • East Osceola • East Otto • Edwin Hollow • Edwin Mountain • Eldridge Swamp • Elkdale • English Hill • Exeter • Fall Brook • Fairfield • Farmersville • Featherstonhaugh • Fire Fall • Fish Creek • Five Streams • Flat Rock • Florence Hill • Fort Jackson • Frank E. Jadwin • Franklin • Franklin 10 • Frozen Ocean • Furnace Creek • Gas Springs • Gates Hill • Gee Brook • Genegantslet • Gillies Hill • Glenmeal • Golden Hill • Goose Egg • Gorton Lake • Gould Corners • Groundry Hill • Grafton Lakes • Granger • Grant Powell • Grantville • Greenwood • Greenwood Creek • Griggs Gulf • Hall Island • Hammond Hill • Harris Hill • Harry E Dobbins • Hartwick • Harvey Mountain • Hatch Creek • Hawkins Pond • Hemlock Ridge • Hewitt • Hickok Brook • Hickory Lake • High Flats • High Knob • High Towers • High Woods • Hill Higher • Hiltonville • Hinckley • Hogsback • Honey Hill • Hooker Mountain • Hoxie Gorge • Huckleberry Ridge • Huntersfield • Hunts Pond • Independence River • Indian Pipe • Italy Hill • Jackson Hill • Jenksville • Jersey Hill • Karr Valley Creek • Kasoag • Keeney Swamp • Kennedy • Kerryville • Ketchumville • Kettlebail • Keyserkill • Klipnocky • Klondike • Knapp Station • Lafayetteville • Lake Desolation • Lassellsville • Lebanon • Leonard Hill • Lesser Wilderness • Lincklaen • Lincoln Mountain • Line Brook • Lonesome Bay • Long Pond • Lookout • Lost Nation • Lost Valley • Ludlow Creek • Lutheranville • Lyon Brook • Macomb Reservation • Mad River • Mallet Pond • Maple Hill • Maple Valley • Marisposa • Marsh Pond • McCarthy Hill • McDonough • Meads Creek • Melondy Hill • Michigan Hill • Middle Grove • Milford • Mohawk Springs • Montrose Point • Moon Pond • Morgan Hill • Morrow Mountain • Moss Hill • Mount Hunger • Mount Pisgah • Mount Pleasant • Mount Tom • Mount Washington • Muller Hill • Murphy Hill • Nanticoke Lake • Nelson Swamp • Newfield • New Michigan • Nimham Mountain • Nine Mile Creek • North Harmony • O'Hara • Oak Ridge • Oakley Corners • Ohisa • Onjebonge • Orebud Creek • Orton Hollow • Ossian • Otselic • Otsquago • Otter Creek • Palmer's Pond • Peck Hill • Painter Hill • Panama • Papish Pond • Partridge Run • Patria • Pease Hill • Penn Mountain • Perkins Pond • Petersburg • Phillips Creek • Pigeon Hill • Pigtail Hollow • Pinckney • Pine Hill • Pine Ridge • Pitcher Springs • Pittstown • Plainfield • Plattekill • Pleasant Lake • Plum Bottom • Point Rock • Popple Pond • Potato Hill • Pulpit Rock • R. Milton Hick • Raecher • Rakph Road • Raymondville • Red Brook • Relay • Rensselaer Number 3 • Rensselaerville • Robinson Hollow • Rock City • Rock Creek • Rockwood • Roeliff Jansen Kill • Roosa Gap • Roseboom • Rural Grove • Rush Creek • Saint Lawrence • Saint Regis • Salmon River • Sand Bay • Sand Flats • Sandy Creek • Scott Patent • Sears Pond • Shawangunk • Shindagin Creek • Shindagin Hollow • Silver Hill • Skinner Hill • Skyline Drive • Slader Creek • Snow Bowl • Sodom • Sonyea • Spring Brook • South Bradford • South Hammond • South Hill • South Mountain • South Valley • Southville • Stammer Creek • Steam Mill • Steuben Hill • Stewart • Stissing Mountain • Stockton • Stone Barn • Stone Hill • Stone Store • Stoney Pond • Sugar Hill • Summer Hill • Susquehanna • Swancott Mill • Swift Hill • Taconic Hereford • Taconic Ridge • Tassell Hill • Taylor Creek • Taylor Valley • Terry Mountain • Texas Hill • Texas Hollow • Texas School House • Three Springs • Tibbetts • Titusville Mountain • Tomannex • Toothaker Creek • Tracy Creek • Tri-County • Triangle • Trout Brook • Trout Lake • Trout River • Tug Hill • Tuller Hill • Turkey Hill • Turkey Point • Turkey Ridge • Turnpike • Urbana • Ushers Road • Vandermark • Vernooykill • Wagner Farm • Wassaic • Webster Hill • Wellman • West Branch • West Hill • West Mountain • West Oscela • West Parishville • Whalen • Whaupaunaucau • Whippoorwill Corners • Whiskey Flats • White Pond • Whittacker • Wiley Brook • Windfall Creek • Winona • Wolf Brook • Wolf Lake • Woodhull • Wurtsboro Ridge • Yatesville Falls • Yellow Barn • Yellow Lake

Wild Forests	Aldrich • Balsam • Black River • Blackhead • Blue Mountain • Bluestone • Cherry Ridge • Colgate Lake • Cranberry Lake • Crystal Lake • Debar Mountain • Dry Brook • Ferris Lake • Fulton Chain • Grass River • Halcott Mountain • Hammond Pond • Horseshoe • Hunter Mountain • Independence River • Jessup River • Kaaterskill • Lake George • Middle Mountain • Moose River Plains • Overlook Mountain • Phoenica • Raquette Boreal • Saranac Lakes • Sargent Ponds • Shaler Mountain • Shandaken • Sundown • Taylor Pond • Vanderwhacker Mountain • Watson East Triangle • White Hill • Wilcox Lake • Willowemoc • Windham High Peak

Forest Preserve	Adirondack Park • Catskill Park

New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation • New York State Department of Environmental Conservation

v • d • e National Recreation Areas of the United States

Administered by the National Park Service	Amistad • Big South Fork • Bighorn Canyon • Boston Harbor Islands • Chattahoochee River • Chickasaw • Curecanti • Delaware Water Gap • Gateway • Gauley River • Glen Canyon • Golden Gate • Lake Chelan • Lake Mead • Lake Meredith • Lake Roosevelt • Mississippi • Ross Lake • Santa Monica Mountains • Whiskeytown-Shasta-Trinity

Administered by other agencies	Allegheny • Angel Peak • Arapaho • Datil Well • Flaming Gorge • Grand Island • Hells Canyon • Land Between The Lakes • Mount Baker • Mount Rogers • Oregon Dunes • Orilla Verde • Pine Ridge • Rattlesnake • Sawtooth • Smith River • Spring Mountains • Spruce Knob-Seneca Rocks • Valley of Fires • White Mountains • White Rocks • Wild Rivers • Winding Stair Mountain

Gateway National Recreation Area

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