Wantagh Woods
Wantagh Woods is a nature reserve in Hempstead, Nassau County, New York. Wantagh Woods is situated nearby to the town North Wantagh, as well as near North Bellmore.Places of Interest
Highlights include Wantagh Railroad Complex and Wantagh station.
Wantagh Railroad Complex
Park
Photo: DanTD, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Wantagh Railroad Complex, is a collection of old buildings in Wantagh, New York. It consists of the 1885-built Wantagh Railroad Station before it was moved from its original location in 1966, when the Babylon Branch was being elevated throughout the mid-20th century.
Wantagh station
Railway station
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Wantagh is a station on the Babylon Branch of the Long Island Rail Road. It is located on Wantagh Avenue and Railroad Avenue near NY 27 in Wantagh, New York. It is used as a terminal and origin for some Babylon branch trains during the rush hours.
Seaford station
Railway station
Photo: DanTD, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Seaford is a station on the Babylon Branch of the Long Island Rail Road. It is located at the intersection of Sunrise Highway and Jackson Avenue in Seaford, New York – although parking areas stretch beyond Washington Avenue east of this corner, and west towards the interchange with the Seaford–Oyster Bay Expressway.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Massapequa and Merrick.
Massapequa
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Massapequa is a hamlet and census-designated place in the Town of Oyster Bay in Nassau County, on the South Shore of Long Island, in New York, United States. The population of the CDP was 21,355 at the time of the 2020 census.
Merrick
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Merrick is a hamlet in Long Island located on the south shore of Nassau County, New York. Merrick is approximately 40 minutes from Manhattan. It is named after the Meroke Indians, an Algonquin tribe that was indigenous to the area.
Levittown
Town
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Levittown is a hamlet and census-designated place in the Town of Hempstead in Nassau County, on Long Island, in New York. It is a suburb of New York City, located halfway between the villages of Hempstead and Farmingdale.
Wantagh Woods
- Type: Nature reserve
- Categories: recreation area and grassland
- Location: Hempstead, Nassau County, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.6911° or 40° 41′ 28″ northLongitude
-73.5102° or 73° 30′ 37″ westOperator
Nassau County Park DepartmentOpen location code
87G8MFRQ+CWOpenStreetMap ID
way 1107915653OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=grassOpenStreetMap feature
leisure=nature_reserve
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