11. Forest Park
Forest Park in Queens is 544 acres and has the largest continuous oak forest in the borough. Part of the proposed Queensway linear park goes through Forest Park. The park was designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, best known as the designer of Central Park and Prospect Park, which he developed alongside architect Calvert Vaux.
In the late 19th century, when Olmsted surveyed the land to construct Forest Park, he purposely designed the space so that it would maintain its “pastoral quality.”