Lying on top of a glacial moraine — an accumulation of glacial debris that formed 15,000 years ago during the Pleistocene Epoch — Alley Pond Park is filled with ponds and hiking trails.

7. Alley Pond Park is Home to the First Nature Trail in the City When Alley Pond Park opened to the public in 1935, it included several acres of playing fields within the green space, including a ...

Alley Pond Park, the second biggest park in Queens ... adding activities inspired by extreme sports (like the Highbridge Trails mountain biking trail). Hmm, does this mean we can expect a winter ...

THEY PUT the pond back in Alley Pond Park ... two highway loop ramps and reconstructed the trail system that links the community with the Alley Park Environmental Center. Also built were two ...

Today, the waterway, which flows through Alley Pond Park in eastern Queens ... reveals the extent of the work being done, with green trails lacing through fields of wildflowers and young trees ...

Parks Commissioner Robert Moses, who came up with the greenway initiative, also began creating the new park. The old structures in the parkland were all torn down. 26 acres of playing fields were ...

The park continued to expand by acquiring land nearby until reaching its current size in 1979. Character: Most of the park is a natural area with trails, ponds and woodland. Facilities ...

The Alley Pond Park Environmental Center (APEC), entered on Northern Boulevard just east of Cross Island Parkway, features a variety of short and long trails around the 635 acres of creeks, wetlands ...