Pelham Bay Park

"Fun with the Family"

Nestled in the northeast corner of the Bronx and encompassing 2,764 acres, this is New York City’s largest park. Once the site of a 1638 settlement founded by liberal religious leader Anne Hutchinson, today the area attracts sun worshipers to the poular “Riviera of New York,” Orchard Beach. Nature trails loop through the rocky Hunter Island Zoology and Geology Sanctuary and past a lagoon’s green salt marsh that’s home to wading birds and osprey.
Overlooking the lagoon and Long Island Sound is the nineteenth-century Greek Revival Bartow-Pell Mansion, filled with period antiques and surrounded by formal gardens. For a different perspective, take a trail ride through woods or along the water atop a mount from Pelham Bay Stables.