Gateway National Recreation Area is a 26,607-acre U.S. national recreation area in New York City and Monmouth County, New Jersey. It provides recreational opportunities that are not commonly found in
View of the Gateway National Recreation Area (lower center) from the International Space Station on April 14, 2022
Jamaica Bay coastal landscapes
Battery Weed at Fort Wadsworth (foreground) on the Narrows, under the Verrazzano–Narrows Bridge
The Piping Plover, a federally threatened bird species which can be found throughout Gateway.
The National Park Service is an agency of the United States Department of the Interior. The service manages all national parks; most national monuments; and other natural, historical, and recreational
Gateway National Recreation Area
…boating, hiking and camping. More than 8.7 million people visited Gateway National Recreation Area in 2022, making it the fourth-most visited unit of the National Park Service. Gateway was created by the U.S. Congress in 1972 to preserve and protect scarce or unique natural, cultural, and recreational resources with relatively…
In 1934, a series of ten postage stamps was issued to commemorate the reorganization and expansion of the National Park Service.
NPS Preliminary Survey party, Great Smoky Mountains, 1931
NPS staff sitting on the set for the 1972 Centennial for the creation of the first National Park (the Yellowstone NP), in a NBC Today Show. Left to right: George Hartzog, William Everhart, Frank McGee and Jack K. Anderson.