Car Rentals Brooklyn and Gateway National Recreation Area

NYC Discount Car Rentals can take you to the Gateway National Recreation Area.

Getting to Gateway National Recreation Area

When you book your NYC Discount Car Rentals vehicle, be sure to visit the 26,607-acre park owned by the American government. You’ll find the Gateway National Recreation Area in the New York City metropolitan area. The park is made up of four separate units located in three boroughs in New York City and northern New Jersey. The National Park Service operates all four units. Nearly nine million visitors frequent the park each year.

You can take your NYC Discount Car Rentals vehicle to one or more of the four units:

You’ll find the Jamaica Bay Unit spread over several dozen islands in Jamaica Bay. You’ll need to take a watercraft to most of the islands. This unit doesn’t have beaches.

In Queens, you’ll find Breezy Point Unit. It includes Jacob Riis Park and Fort Tilden. This unit reaches to the tip of the Rockaway Point.

Within Lower New York, Staten Island Unit is located on the south shore. This unit includes Miller Field, a former airfield south of New Dorp, and Great Kills Park on Great Kills Harbor. Hoffman and Swinburne Islands are also part of this unit.

Drive to Northern New Jersey in your NYC Discount Car Rentals vehicle and you’ll see where Sandy Hook is situated. You’ll also find Gunnison Beach – the only clothes optional/nude beach located in a National Park Service facility.

Picture beautiful beaches, marshes and islands. Where do you expect to find such a serene locale? How about New York harbor area in the Gateway National Recreation Area? Not only can you admire mother nature, you can also do a wide range of recreational activities. You don’t have to go too far from the Big Apple in your NYC Discount Car Rentals vehicle to have an enjoyable time.

Activities at Gateway National Recreation Area

If you head to Floyd Bennett Field, which is located on Flatbush Avenue, just south of the Belt Parkway, you’ll see a piece of history. Originally, the Field was the first municipal airport. During World War II, the field functioned as an important Naval Air Station. The north end of the hangar row will be shortly be turned into a sports complex where ice hockey and other sports can be played throughout the year.

The Field also houses park administrative offices, the Armed Services Reserve Centre (Marine Corps), a training facility for the New York City Department of Sanitation and a training facility for the New York City Police Department.

With the addition of the new sportsplex, the park officials anticipate attracting more tourists and more traffic. There might be some improvements on Jacob Riis Park’s vehicular access. (Riis Landing may be better known as Station Rockway.) A proposed project aims to create an alternative approach to help reduce outside traffic through the adjacent residential areas yet improve access to Jacob Riis Park for visitors coming from north and east of the Rockaway Peninsula.

Future Developments for Gateway National Recreation Area

The City of New York is now working on capping and landscaping the former landfill sites at Pennsylvania and Fountain Avenues. The National Park Service will operate the site once it is completed. The site will serve as a wildlife habitat and passive recreational uses. In order to simplify site access, site security and limit internal circulation and parking, the proposed transportation enhancement project for this area hopes to address these issues. You can look forward to navigating with ease in your NYC Discount Car Rentals rental in the near future.