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Marine Park, Brooklyn, NY

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Marine Park

Walk the Salt Marsh Nature Trail along Gerritsen Creek, launch a kayak or play a round of golf in Brooklyn's largest park.

Flatbush, Gerritsen & Fillmore Aves (Salt Marsh Nature Center at East 33rd St & Avenue U) · Brooklyn, NY

About Marine Park

Marine Park is Brooklyn's largest park, about 800 acres on the edge of Jamaica Bay, and 530 acres of its grassland and salt marsh are protected as a Forever Wild preserve. The Salt Marsh Nature Trail follows Gerritsen Creek, where you can watch marsh birds and horseshoe crabs. The park also has a golf course, ballfields, bocce courts, playgrounds and a kayak launch at Gerritsen Inlet. Urban Park Rangers run programs at the Salt Marsh Nature Center on weekends.

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