Heckscher Park

Good playground for children, a small pond with a walking loop, and a bandstand where you can check out a nice summer concert. There are bathrooms and water fountains as well. The park is walking distance from the village, so grab some food and eat outside! Don’t miss the annual fall festival, one of the busiest of the season and best stocked, in my opinion, with local and artisan vendors.

went here w my friend went near the fountain while looking down my glasses fell in luckily there was some nice guy to help me out. the park is great for kids every age. its nice they have a turn around. park is clean great for my 21 month to run around.

What a nice tranquil park connected to an art museum. It is quite luring. I had no intention of stopping anywhere else after I grabbed my lunch but after seeing the swan and duck filled lake I couldn’t stop myself from pulling over and parking to check it out. It’s very clean as well. I wish I had a park this nice closer to where I live.

The should change the name of this to Goose Poop Park.
The park is nice enough and the events held there can be fun.
Except that there’s goose poop everywhere…

Nice park. Big, clean and cool.
This is my first time here, and I have fun here today, and enjoyed myself in this beautiful weather.
This park has everything that you might be looking for in a great park: a pond with ducks and geese, tennis courts, baseball field, basketball court, playground for kids etc.
Reccomended!

Nice park on 25a near the village. Something for everyone, they have a baseball field, a children’s playground a lake where you can feed ducks and open spaces under the trees to just chill. They often have craft fairs and flower shows in the park. The stage is undergoing renovation but they will have live concerts when if is done.

I really dislike this park. It’s artificial and gloomy.

Nice and big and clean! Lots of kids on their expansive playground! Big, beautiful pond right outside fence that you could walk around and feed ducks, geese, swans. Great place for all!

The Summer Arts program is excellent, with events happening every night of the week except Mondays. Tuesday evenings are events especially for children. The playground has great equipment, and an area for small children. My 3 year old niece is a fan. The one drawback is parking — I usually park behind town hall if I can find a space, but crossing the street is dangerous.

Overall the park here is a fairly decent park conveniently located near Huntington Village but it definitely has issues with geese and cleanliness not just on the grass and pond area, but also the walkways and paved paths throughout the park.
Occasionally the park has free concerts and events in the park which is why I’ve given this review a 3^rd star. The concert area is fairly clean although bringing your own chair or towel is a good idea.

Lovely fields — of goose crap.
I lived across from this place for many a good year and although it is pleasant to look at from afar, up close you get the heebie jeebies…
The park is roughly triangular in shape and much bigger than it appears from the road. At the apex of the triangle, there is a pond with a lovely green layer of scum from all the goose crap.
They had a big cleanup a few years back where they drained the pond and scooped out the poop but they didn’t do anything about the geese so it was a temporary fix.
The park does have some nice amenities: kiddie playground, a museum (The Heckscher museum of art) and a large stage area where there are free concerts in the summer. Tennis courts and baseball fields over on the other side of the park complete the picture.
All told it is nice but forget about lounging on the grass as the ever present goose turds cover every square inch of the lawns — except by the band shell where they put some fencing to keep the geese out.
Parking is on the street around the perimeter of the park.