Small park near NYC, its about 30min drive. The park is former estate, and still has some of the glory from the past. Although the mansion did not survive, some of the structures are restored, such as walled garden, stairs, and temple of Love and definitely worth a visit. Its pandemic times, so park enforces limits on the traffic, closed most of the trails, and essentially request you to move on single loop. Still in my humble view worth a visit.

Awesome awesome place to go whenever you are looking for a place to enjoy a quick walk with nature. Very beautiful and interesting place with lots of scenic views.The stairs are not that steep and it is a easy walk.This garden is very small compared to the ones Ive been to. Overall time would be less then an hour in and out.So there is time to plan a second trip on that day.There is a picnic spot outside of the garden.Highly recommend!!Very strict covid protocols so wearing a mask is mandatory and check in was super easy. Some places were closed off and did not get to enjoy the whole garden during covid.

It was a beautiful park and garden. My husband and I enjoyed it a lot here. The views of the Hudson River from the park is so gorgeous. Is a perfect place to connect with nature.

Beautiful views!!! Please make reservations and even still give yourself time to find parking. The lot is free but very limited I waited 10 minutes before I got a parking spot. The garden itself was beautiful, I walked the designated areas in about a hour or so. Wear comfy footwear some area are very wooded. The afternoon was a bit crowded in certain areas because everyone wanted the perfect photo. Definitely going back it was about 40 minute drive from NYC.

It’s a beautiful little garden where is an hour drive away from new york city. Due to pandemic, they’re taking free timed entry reservation on their website, but seems like they take walk-in people as well. They ask visitors to stay for up to 90min in order to control capacity, but you can easily see the whole thing in 90min. Their parking lot is not big - be there before your reservation time to look for a parking spot, or you may need to park on the street.

Even during a pandemic and fall this is a beautiful place to visit. Great for a family outing or just a walk through a beautiful park. Breathtaking views of the cliffs across the Hudson River. Well kept and maintained.

So happy I finally got to see the gardens! I visited with my dad last week as he was born and raised in Yonkers but also never really visited here before. A lot of plants are still alive and in bloom. The reservation system keeps it from getting too crowded inside and everyone has to be masked while there. Definitely worth a trip! Also it would be absolutely stunning for a wedding! I saw they do up to 3 large weddings a year here and some lucky couples they are!

While it is beautiful, its small. If you plan to visit it for a day trip, plan something in addition. Like walk along Old Croton Trailway State park.One of the trail ( one that actually looks like a trail, is closed for walk). The garden itself needs a lot of restoration, which seems to be in progress in one of the rotundas. Beautiful view of Hudson river, but you cant get to river itself.You can have picnic on the tables, or on the grass.

For those of you that want a peaceful place to visit during the weekend and for free, this is the place to visit. I honestly was not expecting this garden to be as big as it was with all of its twists and turns and new sights. However, for a free visit on the weekend, it was amazing. Pictures doe not do justice for how beautiful this place is. Not a far drive from Queens. Parking on sight but limited so I went about 30 minutes prior to my reservation!To make reservations, go to their website and it will take you to eventbrite where you can register for the day and time. These sell out quick and reservations are open every Tuesday at 8am. This garden is only open Friday, Saturday and Sundays. For those of you that want to do professional pictures here, I saw a sign that said you need to reserve it in advance and notify the garden. In regards to social distancing, there is a limit on how many people can go inside. Masks required at all times. Plenty of social distancing.

What an amazing place. Actually had no idea this place existed until I saw a Tik tok on it. Immediately hopped on and reserved free tickets. What an amazing place to explore. Absolutely beautiful and picture perfect. If you are from NYC and never been run don’t walk and make sure you visit. Very cool to learn about the history and people involved in this amazing property.

Beautiful place with a couple of short scenic trails. Well worth the visit. Expect to spend 45-90 min depending on your pace

Lovely garden. make reservation online ahead. you have 90 minutes to your the garden which is plenty. parking is tight up hill but you can park on the street outside.

Beautiful grounds and well maintained flowers. Unique buildings like the Temple of Love, plus magnificent stairs and waterfalls.

Beautiful place... renovations and construction underway to make this place even more breathtaking. Worth a relaxing walk.

Ive been very fortunate to watch Untermyer transform itself back into an awe inspiring garden since the Conservancy began restoration work years back. They continue to make improvements and discover new areas of the garden. The views are beautiful, the color palette of the plantings in the Walled Garden change each season and theyre always surprising and artfully done. Residents of Yonkers and Westchester are so lucky to have this place in our backyard.

This is my third time in the past 6 years going here. Its fun, Beautiful views to take photos. Unfortunately because of Covid-19 there are a few limitations like NO Food, NO photoshoot etc .. but its still a very nice place to visit and take photos.

Great social distance option for outdoor activities. The full walk was not bad. Wear comfortable shoes due to dirt path. Beautiful scenic views

Beautiful gardens. Make reservations on Tuesday of the week for Friday to Sunday 12-6pm hours. Entrance free

It’s a very wonderful place to visit with your loved one. Really Enjoyed. ️

Beautiful estate that is now open to the public, evocative of the decadence of the Great Gatsby

So beautiful and worth the free visit.

Beautiful, serene and so relaxing. Just what is needed during this pandemic.

Free entry fee for round the year. Some of the special day restrictions for entry otherwise whole year park entry absolutely free. Nice tree and flower plantation specially they renovated new waterfall which is great. Also long stair close to Hudson trail all together this place is nice and great for photography and family fiends meeting in city or close to city.

Beautiful place to visit. Family friendly.

Loved Loved Loved this Park. Best part is - NO ENTRANCE FEE!. Its free.Its a great hidden gem. I visited 2 parts of the garden. Walled gardens and Rock gardens. Gazebo is in the rock gardens. It is a great park for toddlers. There are also a few swings and equipment outside at entrance. There is a small very narrow stream flowing through the rock Garden. Amazing. My 2.5 yr old did not want to move form there. It was so entertaining and safe too.I visited in November 2019. Amazing fall colors. Wall garden is so very well maintained. Must visit for a day out.

Truly a hidden gem in Westchester. Was recommended to me some time ago but I never had the availability. Now I can say I am truly pleased with this treasure. They offer free parking and is right in front of the local bus. There us a garden inside but the park itself is delightful. The designated picnic area is nothing fancy but if you walk up further you are guaranteed to be wowed! Ive already made plans to return with my family to take professional photos.

The garden itself was beautiful, I walked the designated areas in about a hour or so. Wear comfy footwear some area are very wooded.

Lovely place and visit here to take some magical pictures for your instagram.

Romantic, sort of for NY. Nice to come here in the Fall, apparently there will be a light show in December. Might be worth the trip.

Such a beautiful getaway from the city. Great day date or just a fun hangout. Taking the long walking route takes about an hour with a leisurely walk and all the photo ops!

It was beautiful park and garden. Me and my family enjoyed this place. Specially it was photo scenic place. I recomend everyone should go and visit.

Untermyer Park has beautiful grounds, many nice spots for photography, (note that professional photography requires a permit.) Many nice views. If you happen to be in Yonkers, you should definitely take a stroll through. Maybe have a picnic? There is much you can do it such a beautiful park.

Really beautiful and peaceful to walk around and relax. Plus it’s free!

Beautiful Park grounds in a Mediterranean style. Very peaceful. Open Friday-Sunday by appointment only during Covid.

Beautiful some what whimsical public garden. The scenery is out of this world. All year long its a great place to go and do photo shoots. In the winter they give out free hot chocolate. So far Ive gone during spring-winter and each time its a different delightful experience. If you do go during the winter make sure you stay till its dark bc you will fall even more in love with it!

Beautiful place! Mini getaway from the city.

Beautiful gardens with great views. Free admissions. Nice place for family to visit during lockdown.

My sister n law told me about this place and showed me some beautiful snaps so I decided to take a trip on an early Sunday morning. The main places are of course lovely but I’m an “off the trail, into the wild” kind of person. Don’t be afraid to go off the paths, you’ll be pleasantly surprised by what you find. For someone who wants to avoid the clamor and chatter surrounding the main attractions, a good playlist and headphones make a difference between taking in the sights and really feeling part of the gardens.

A lot of the shrubbery was dead but overall good picture spot and nice views. Definitely go the short route vs the long route.

Family friendly. Closed to NYC. Lovely decorated.

Very noce place to relax, meditation, or just go for a nice walk, also has a very nice scenery

Beautiful gardens & fountains, and its free! An amazing place to find peace & quiet during the pandemic. Reservations recommended but not required.

Beautiful Garden, would recommend highly if you luv to take pictures.

Very beautiful garden in Yonkers for free to visitors thanks to city of Yonkers. I wish they start charging fee so entire garden can be brought back to its former glory. Some part of garden is renovated but some part need some serious help and that can only achieved by bringing revenue for renovation by charging nominal fees. Parking is limited but if you wait, someone will come out soon. Garden provides immense photo possibilities.

It is a beautiful place. It is a great place for wedding pictures.

A lovely place to walk around. Can choose from a short, medium or long route

Great Place What I love about it, no ones littering.This really is a place you can just relax, sit on a bench have a picnic or just do a nice little hike.I would make sure to bring enough water and snacks.But just please and dont litter

We had a day picnic place and we had a blast. Such a calm and serene garden place with such lush green views. Takes you to Italy with some of the structures. Must go for plant lovers.

This garden is absolutely amazing. It’s beautifully decorated, clean and there are so many different, special plants and flowers! In addition, the view to the Hudson River from the park is so gorgeous.

Love the place. Very nice place to take a photoshoot. Very nice place to have a quiet picnic romantic picnic take your kids to play around. I recommended for anyone that would like to have a romantic picnic for to take pictures

Back gate locked due to coronavirus. sign tells you to use the main gate and requires a reservation using a timed ticket system. if only that were easy. if youre on the OCA trail, that means a two mile walk around to the front. nah pass.

Place is beautiful. Cleaned up and rerenavated most of park. Recommend coming to visit with family and friends.

Beautiful park however security ended up circulating around my 2 friends and I (the only non-whites in the area at the time) near the end of our time there. I think its important to mention that one of my friends wore a hijab and we felt EXTREMELY singled out and unwanted.We asked 2 security guards where the Tower of Love was, they gave us directions, and we thanked them before we went our own way. A few minutes later, one of my friends pointed out that they were behind us in the distance as we were walking there, but we didnt think anything of it at the time and just figured they were doing their job to patrol the park. When we got there, the 2 guards got closer and we asked if we could go up the Tower of Love, which they said no to because its a small area so congestion is possible and they wanted visitors to respect the rules of social distancing. We understood and complied. After that interaction, we sat on the bench next to the waterfall instead to take pictures for a few minutes. While this was happening, we saw a group of white people walk up the stairs where it said Do not enter to stand next to the waterfall of the tower (and they were still there when we were leaving later). We saw the 2 security guards waving and saying hi to them IMMEDIATELY before they approached us and told us that we had to leave the park soon because we were there for too long even though we just met these 2 security guards 10-15 minutes before.. I was aware of the suggestion on the parks website that stated not to stay for more than 90 minutes (due to COVID), but we had only been there for an hour. This park should really work on hiring people who actually treat others with respect regardless of the color of their skin or religion they follow. Its 2020 and I cant believe we had to experience something like that happen to us... Nobody should ever have to be treated this way.

Worth visiting once, beautiful stairs overlooking the hudson river, nice garden with variety of flowers and plants, there is a beautiful artificial falls at love temple

Beautiful place to visit and enjoy sightseeing and gardens with lovely family. Please reserve the person and time before you visit.

Exquisite garden. Offers so much more in this small garden. Just learned from a YouTube video that the flowers in the garden change every year and they have different themes from time to time.

Beautiful garden, good landscaping with river view. Good scenery for taking pictures!

One of my favorite gardens ever! Only 40 minutes drive from Astoria, NYC, I came here several tines on different seasons. All of the visits are lovely!Last time I took my mom here after some snowy days. It looks beautiful with the remaining snow but of course no plants or flowers. Still enjoying the wintery scene pf the Hudson River afar and the mosaics as well as the temple. Our favorite spot for photography is the door heading to the Vista and the stairs. Don’t miss the two sphinxes :).During warmer days we usually hike in the woods, heading to the temple of love.No admission, all is free. Donation is of course warmly welcomed ;).Parking might be a bit difficult on busy days.It’s a perfect place for wedding photos but professional photography needs extra permit.Highly recommended when you are in Yonkers.

A hidden jewel in Yonkers truely is breathtaking so relaxing. I also found out they provide free art classes by Untermyer Performing Arts Council Inc. which is not the same organization. Kids as young as 7 to 16 years of age and seniors as well all free for 8 sessions on Saturday from 1:00-3:00 PM. In the fall they will start again, due to their summer Series they can not have art class. Taught by a local artist Mrs. Acevedo

Well thought out walk to keep socially distant, amazed at how many people were there.

I absolutely love this garden. I only wish more people were willing to walk around and explore with me. This is a quick trip from Manhattan to the Greystone station on the Metro North. It is well worth the trip in my opinion. I love the view and cant wait to see this garden during other seasons. I hope my photos help. If you want to take professional photos you need to obtain a permit. There are apparently various events that take place as well. I would say the photos speak for themselves and ask you to check them out. This is a relaxing and beautiful park. I bet if it was fully restored it would be even more splendid!

A beautiful park to visit any time of year. The holiday Illumination is breathtaking and should not be missed. In nicer weather take a stroll through the beautiful gardens with wonderful views of the NJ Palisades and the Hudson River.

A beautiful and magical place with old buildings covered in foliage. Theres flowers, vines, and a nice water way with koi inside.

If you are around Yonkers listen....DO NOT MISS THIS PARK... its amazing and beautiful! It shows us how the great mansions used to be. The gardens are gorgeous, and wait until you see the Hudson river from here....Its unbelievably beautiful!

Beautiful scenic place to stroll make sure you bring comfortable walking shoes or sandals

Well managed place with nice and courteous staff, though some of the places are under restoration. This is a wonderful place to spend hours in tranquility being indulged into nature by the river Hudson.

Beautiful and peaceful.

Nice wiew good for a picture

A beautifully laid out and landscaped garden. A very serene setting which is soothing and calming yet extremely invigorating.Will most definitely return with friends and family.

It was absolutely gorgeous. They are making changes so youll bump into some construction, but it was a treat.

I’ve been in New York for 7 years, can’t believe i missed on this beautiful place.Absolutely stunning, quiet, not so crowded place.Will for sure come back, i highly recommend this place. It’s only about 40 minute drive from Manhattan.

A lovely garden in a stunning location. A great place to stroll, take romantic photos, baby pics, and beauty selfies. I opted to walk down the wooded carriage Trail to the entrance of the aqueduct. The abandoned gate house had pretty cool graffiti art.

They dont allow professional photography without a permit, you can still use a DSLR, just cant use any large lenses. The security was very professional and polite explaining this. The grounds are beautiful, I was surprised it was pretty crowded, I went on a Friday around 5:30. There were many prom photoshoots taking place! It is also free to enter.

My name is Bermia Evora. Today I had a terrible experience at your garden. One of your workers went around checking and then came back with the police to escort me out of the garden supposedly because I was using a long camera lens. There were other people with long lenses and this didn’t happen to them. I have visited this garden many times including last week and never had this issue. I understand those seem to be your new rules which are not portrayed anywhere in the garden or online. However, the way the worker and the police handle the situation was not appropriate. They could have just told me to put it away or take it to the car and come back, and I would have understood that. This is a humiliating experience for me being escorted out of a place by police. The same worker saw me with a long camera lens last week and opened the door by the Love Temple so I could exit the garden since they were closing.

Beautiful, serene park. Very clean and family friendly. The staff is very nice and helpful. I would definitely highly recommend spending time here.

Even though it was raining I got down on one knee and Proposed to my beautiful fiance in this beautiful park

500 stars if it was available. Maternity shoot because we do all our own family shoots. Lolololol

Lovely walk around the Hudson, beautiful views and well kept gardens. Not all is open at once but it will hopefully be completely restored soon.

Admittedly out of season but place is run down and in disrepair. Scenery is spectacular, overlooking the Hudson.

Best place to walk around with someone special. Its outside of NYC. Its in yonkers, westchester. They have parking inside and also outside of the park. Great place for photography, seating and watch the water. It’s not too much crowded. The best way to come here is bus. If you are taking train take metronorth. That’s expensive but fast. The other public transport way is come to 242nd subway station. Take bus 2 . It will drop you one block before the park. And if you take bus 1 and than go to Getty Square and take bus 6 it will drop you exactly in front of the park.

Beautiful gardens, Covid precautions in place.

Love it - a secrete garden hidden away in yonkers

Beautiful! Wish I knew the fountains were under construction tho. Visited on a very hot day and humidity was awful but still enjoyed it especially under two large trees at the garden entrance. No entrance fee but leave a donation it’s well worth it. Parking is small . Will be visiting again when fountains are done.

Beautiful grounds and surprisingly not crowded on a summer Saturday. The grounds are well maintained and feature a stone garden, waterfall, and fountain. It was a great place to visit for an hour on our way to Dia: Beacon from NYC.

If you dont reserve they treat you like animals out in the sun for hours with no shade.

A friend suggested that we gather a few more friends for an outing and picnic here. Upon arriving there were benches set up near the entrance which made it convenient for the group of us to sit & have our lunch. The inner area where the gardens are located is beautiful, with tall arches and columns and ponds. Unfortunately a woman who called herself a “garden greeter” prohibited any eating or even putting down of a blanket in the most beautiful areas of the park, so we ended up having a picnic on the grass outside of the garden, which was fine but not as nice to look at. There is a Temple of Love that some of the kids trekked up to see, but again, this is far from a playground so there wasn’t much for them to do up there. It is a pleasant enough park, but if you plan to do anything besides take selfies in the garden, it probably isn’t the best place to explore or even to sit down and read.

Exquisite hidden gem for someone who has not been to Yonkers, definitely worth a visit!

Beautiful Scenery nice place to take pics. Lots of restrictions due to Covid

Stunning park.Very well maintained.Admission is free. You can donate.

Great place for a walk, photos, workout, a picnic, or a simple stroll. The views here are amazing! Awesome gardens, beautiful gazebos, and great views of the Hudson; I love this place!

The Grand Illumination is grande! Beautiful gardens with lights galore. Amazing structures, Hudson River views and music.

Simply gorgeous. Staff are very helpful!

Great place to take pics, but if you want to take professional pics you need a permit!!!Took pics of my daughter (using my cell) for prom!! Beautiful location!!!

Beautiful place for family to love nature

People are very nice and friendly here, the view is wonderful

Historic garden where cultures meet. One of the best in NYS!

This park is like walking down ancient history. It is beyond beautiful, extremely serene, and what zen! Im a nature lover and have been to quite a few parks. As far as city/town parks go, this is by far my FAVORITE park close to NYC. From the sights to the trees, to the structures, this place is to me like a drop of heaven. Definitely recommend this spot!

A picture moment! Great park

A hidden gem. Would love to go back and spend more time

A veritable unknown gem in Westchester county. (Lived in the area for years without any clue it existed.)Stunning architecture, a waterfall, unbelievably manicured gardens and trees. It’s also incredibly accessible,The space is enormous and spread out over a large space. So while you can come and sit at a table and take in the beauty over a quick lunch...I highly recommend having at least an hour or more to walk around and experience it all.It’s free to visit, but after a few minutes there you will likely be inspired to donate, which you can do as there is usually someone at a table “on duty” with information about the grounds.