Gateway National Recreation Area News

This beach at the Sandy Hook unit of the Gateway National Recreation Area was buried in more than 3 feet of sand during Hurricane Sandy.

The roads are rough, and some areas are still off limits, but an influx of visitors should have no problems driving through Gateway National Recreation Area's Sandy Hook unit on Memorial Day.

"I'm out here every day, all year long, as long as it's open," the 79-year-old Atlantic Highlands man said Wednesday morning as he arrived at the oceanfront park with his cocker spaniel, Chaucer.

The Gateway National Recreation Area at Sandy Hook will reopen Wednesday morning.

There is a gravel trail that loops around a pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, part of New York City's Gateway National Recreation Area, and in its circumference you can see the richness of nature in the unlikely setting of the largest metropolitan area in the United States.

A trip to the beach at Gateway National Recreation Area at Sandy Hook for many means a trip to the Sea Gulls' Nest restaurant and bar, especially for its daily sunset ceremony.

We are more than resigned to the fact that sacrifices will be made this summer in order for the beach to be accessible to the most people possible.

Sandy Hook Unit of Gateway National Recreation Area will receive $1,994,889 in federal aid to repair roads damaged by Superstorm Sandy.

On Monday, senators Frank R. Lautenberg and Bob Menendez and Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr.

More than 282 million people visited America's national parks in 2012, an increase of more than 3 million over 2011.