Garvies Point Museum & Preserve

Charming local museum… been going since I was a kid. Neat exhibits and good trails.

I am surprised that I loved this museum so much. There were so many interesting exhibits.

From subjects like geology to the history of long island, there is an impressive breadth of information.

It goes into great detail about how long island natives used to live and how long island was formed geologically. I love that there are a lot of interactive exhibits as well.

We easily spent more than an hour here looking at the exhibits. I definitely recommend visiting if you are in the area. Great museum for children and adults.

Garvies Museum and Preserve should score the high points with most visitors. Well curated museum with exhibits of interest to both kids and adults. Impressive number of trails are packed into 62 acres of property. Took me under an hour to hike most of them. Don’t miss the cemetery appendix trail. Bluff trail and shoreline path are more picturesque than others. Ample parking lot.

We have been to the quaint little museum several times, today was our first walk on the trails. We followed the loop trail from AllTrails. Lovely family home under 2 miles - made interesting by all the ups and downs involved. Took is about an hour. Clean trails, easy to follow. We had the AllTrails app running as there were many other trails cross crossing our chosen path, easy to go off track. Great use of an hour on a sunny weekend!

Great learning center for nature studies, Native American studies and much more. Museum is just the right size to engage young children but not overwhelm them. My kids really enjoyed their small camps and personalized attention.