5.5 Mile Flushing Meadows Hike
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This time we'll be going out to to Flushing Meadows Park, the site of the 1964-1965 World's Fair. We'll meet on the boardwalk 100 feet south of the "7" subway station at Mets-Willets Point (Citi Field), except rather than going north toward Citi Field, go south 100 feet on the boardwalk.
Wear waterproof shoes or boots!!! There are always a lot of puddles & mud on the west side of the lake.
The boardwalk is not visible on the street Google map, but it's very visible on the satellite google map, and labelled as the "Flushing Meadows Pedestrian Bridge". We will meet closer to the "7" train station than to the LIRR station. The boardwalk is about 60 feet wide where we will meet, next to the west railing, and I look like my picture.
We'll walk the length of the Flushing Meadows Park and back, around the lake, then through to outside the Queens Botanical Gardens (which is fenced off), then to Main Street Flushing where we will eat dinner at a Chinese restaurant that has agreed to do separate checks. We'll be arriving at the restaurant at about 4:45pm (sunset will be at 5:16pm). BRING CASH FOR DINNER!!! The restaurant has a $20 credit card minimum, and it's cheap -- dinner with a beer may be less than that (though there's been a lot of inflation lately, so it may be more).
There will be no vaccine requirement for the hike or to eat dinner with us.
From the restaurant it's just another several blocks up Main St to Roosevelt Avenue and the "7" train home.
Note that it's a Hunan restaurant, and most, though not all, of the dishes are spicy, and when they say "spicy", they really mean it. Spicy dishes are marked as such on the menu.
Attendance at this event is free, and by attending, you agree that you and any guests participate at your own risk, and that you will not take any legal action against the organizers of this group for anything unfortunate that may happen during this outing. There is especially a risk that you will get separated from the group and lost or mugged, and if that happens the responsibility will be yours. By attending, you assert that you are competent to find your own way home, if necessary. By attending, you consent to the liability waiver, which you can read online here: