Van Cortlandt Park

Last month, we took the 1 train to its northern end, at the northwest corner of the Bronx, and spent the day in Van Cortlandt Park. It's a fairly large urban park. Parts of it are playing fields (as are in many parks in NYC) - I'm always amazed at how densely situated people can tolerate when playing sports here! Soccer and baseball side-by-side, in a field half the size you'd see in Edmonton.

Further along the park, however, there are woodsy trails! They were sparsely populated, and quiet! What a treat to walk several miles amidst newly budding trees, listening to chirping sparrows and robins, and not hearing people! The trail we were on was marked with these adorable hare-and-tortoise signs: