General Grant National Memorial. Photo: NPS

Planning a trip to New York City's National Parks of New York Harbor to visit places like Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty? You can now learn more about sections of the New York Harbor park system before you go by downloading video podcasts of the Gateway National Recreation Area, Grant's Tomb and Hamilton Grange.

Available podcasts include:

Jamaica Bay, Gateway National Recreation Area

• Citizen scientists look out for Jamaica Bay’s turtles (4:28)
• Jamaica Bay is for the birds (3:41)
• Climate change threatens Jamaica Bay’s salt marshes (4:29)

Fort Wadsworth, Gateway National Recreation Area

• Guardian of New York Harbor (3:46)
• How goats help preserve Fort Wadsworth (3:03)

Sandy Hook, Gateway National Recreation Area

• Beaches are only the beginning (3:34)
• Disappearing guns and nuclear missiles (4:28)
• Life at an Army fort (3:09)

National Parks of New York Harbor Education Center

• Parks and partners make education exciting (4:39)

Hamilton Grange National Memorial

• Moving Hamilton’s house across the street (4:16)
• A founding father’s elegant home (3:36)

General Grant National Memorial

• Building Grant's Tomb (3:41)

The links above link directly to the Quicktime video podcasts, but the National Park Service has other formats available on the National Parks in Your Pocket page.

For more information on the National Parks of New York Harbor, check out the downloadable brochure in PDF format below, which includes an online map and brochure showing all the sites in National Parks of New York Harbor.

National Parks of New York Harbor Brochure

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