Gateway National Recreation Area<\/strong>
\nGateway’s 27,000 acre area constitutes three geographic units: Sandy Hook, New Jersey; Jamaica Bay and Staten Island, New York City.\u00a0 This park was badly hit by Hurricane Sandy.\u00a0 Some areas are still closed.\u00a0 There are beach wheelchairs available at Jamaica Bay and Sandy Hook.\u00a0 Call ahead.
\nHere is\u00a0 Gateway’s website.<\/a> \u00a0Phone 718-354-4606
\nStaten Island<\/strong>.\u00a0 There are walking paths at all three Staten Island sites.\u00a0 Accessibility at Staten Island.<\/a> \u00a0 Phone 718-354-4606
\n<\/a>A paved and wheelchair-accessible Multi-Use Path begins at the entrance to Great Kills Park and extends 1.5 miles to the beach center.
\nJamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge<\/strong>.\u00a0 Try the Upland, East Pond and West Pond trails. Or hike in the back fort area of Fort Tilden.\u00a0 \u00a0Here is a website by Steve Markos<\/a> which describes the West Pond, and North and South Trails at Jamaica Bay.\u00a0 Accessibility at Jamaica Bay.<\/a>
\n<\/a>?<\/strong> West Pond Trail, 2.7 miles, looks from the photographs as if it might be wheelchair accessible.\u00a0 Call the Visitor Center 718-318-4340 to be sure.
\nSandy Hook<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Accessibility at Sandy Hook<\/a>. Visitor Center phone 732-872-5970.
\n<\/a>Multi-use Pathway, 5miles, is wheelchair accessible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gateway National Recreation Area Gateway’s 27,000 acre area constitutes three geographic units: Sandy Hook, New Jersey; Jamaica Bay and Staten Island, New York City.\u00a0 This park was badly hit by Hurricane Sandy.\u00a0 Some areas are still closed.\u00a0 There are beach wheelchairs available at Jamaica Bay and Sandy Hook.\u00a0 Call ahead. Here is\u00a0 Gateway’s website. \u00a0Phone … Continue reading Gateway National Recreation Area<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-jersey-federal","category-new-york-federal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2422"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7617,"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2422\/revisions\/7617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}