Want to know what parks you should visit this year? Suffolk County Legis. Kara Hahn has you covered.
She’s taking to the road to do her annual tour of parks of Long Island (and beyond!) as part of her A Park A Day in May initiative to highlight the beauty, fun and healthy benefits of our parks.
You can follow along on her Facebook page and all over social media with her hashtags #APADIM and #aparkaday
“Maybe it’s because of everything our parks offer or, maybe it’s because of the relief, refreshment, peace and tranquility that is felt after spending time with nature that I began my annual ‘A Park a Day in May’ Challenge,” she wrote on Facebook. “First blooming in 2016, my goal was to, maybe, encourage Suffolk residents to visit, enjoy and promote the thousands of acres of parkland across Long Island.”
So far Hahn has visited the below parks and plans to continue until the end of the month.
- Sears Bellows County Park, Hampton Bays
- Hubbard County Park, Flanders
- Paul T. Given County Park, Smithtown
- Indian Island County Park, Riverhead
- West Hills County Park
- Walt Whitman Birthplace State Historic Site
- Thomas Muratore Park at Farmingville Hills County Park
- Steve Englebright Greenway Trail, East Setauket-Port Jefferson Station
- Sagtikos Manor, West Bay Shore
- Charles A. Oddo Verleye Park, East Northport
- Sans Souci County Park, Sayville
- Cordwood Landing County Park, Miller Place
- Arthur H Kunz County Park, Smithtown
- Losee Park, Tarrytown
- Lakeland County Park, Islandia
- Lake Ronkonkoma County Park, Lake Ronkonkoma
- Harborfront Park- Port Jefferson
- Frank Melville Memorial Park- Setauket
- Inlet Pond County Park, Greenport
- Town of Babylon’s Overlook Beach, Babylon
- Nissequogue River State Park, Kings Park
- Walkway Over the Hudson State Historic Park, Poughkeepsie
- Sherwood-Jayne Farm, East Setauket
- Terryville Greenbelt, Port Jefferson Station
- Blydenburgh County Park, Smithtown
- Old Field Farm County Park, Stony Brook