Elmhurst

Worth seeing in and around Elmhurst

9 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   Flushing Meadows–Corona Park

   Flushing Meadows–Corona Park is a public park in the northern part of Queens in New York City, New York, U.S. It is bounded by I-678 on the east, Grand Central Parkway on the west, Flushing Bay on the north, and Union Turnpike on the south. Flushing Meadows–Corona Park is the fourth-largest public park in New York City, with a total area of 897 acres.

   2.9 km · large public park in Queens, New York · Wikipedia
2. 02
   1939 New York World's Fair

   The 1939 New York World's Fair was an international exposition held at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, New York City, United States. The fair featured exhibitions, activities, performances, films, artworks, and food presented by 62 nations, 35 U.S. states and territories, and more than 1,400 organizations and companies.

   2.6 km · fair held at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, New York · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Citi Field

   Citi Field is a baseball stadium located in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, in the borough of Queens, New York City, United States. Opened in 2009, Citi Field is the home of Major League Baseball's New York Mets.

   3.5 km · Baseball stadium in Queens, New York City, USA · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Arthur Ashe Stadium

   Arthur Ashe Stadium is a retractable roof tennis arena at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, New York City. Part of the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, it is the main stadium of the US Open tennis tournament and has a capacity of 23,771, making it the largest tennis stadium in the world.

   3 km · tennis stadium · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Shea Stadium

   William A. Shea Municipal Stadium, typically shortened to Shea Stadium, was a multi-purpose stadium in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, New York City. Opened in 1964, it was home to the New York Mets of Major League Baseball from 1964 to 2008, as well as the New York Jets of the American Football League and the National Football League from 1964 to 1983.

   3.3 km · 1964-2009 sports stadium in Queens, New York, USA · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Museum of the Moving Image

   The Museum of the Moving Image is a time-based media museum located in a former building of the historic Astoria Studios, in the Astoria neighborhood of Queens in New York City. The museum originally opened in 1988 as the American Museum of the Moving Image, and in 1996, opened its permanent exhibition, "Behind the Screen", designed by Ali Höcek of AC Höcek Architecture LLC. The museum began a $67 million expansion in March 2008 and reopened in January 2011.

   4.5 km · museum and archive in New York, United States · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Queens Museum

   The Queens Museum is an art museum and educational center at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, New York City, United States. Established in 1972, the museum includes the Panorama of the City of New York, a room-sized scale model of the five boroughs of New York City built for the 1964 New York World's Fair.

   2.8 km · art museum in New York, New York · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Queens College

   Queens College is a public college in the New York City borough of Queens. Part of the City University of New York system, Queens College occupies an 83-acre campus primarily located in Flushing.

   5.1 km · college in New York City · Wikipedia
9. 09
   New York Hall of Science

   The New York Hall of Science is a science museum at 47-01 111th Street, within Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, in the Corona neighborhood of Queens in New York City, New York, US. It occupies one of the few remaining structures from the 1964 New York World's Fair, along with two annexes completed in 1996 and 2004. There are more than 400 interactive exhibits, which focus on biology, chemistry, and physics.

   2.5 km · science and technology museum in New York City, New York, USA · Wikipedia

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Getting to Elmhurst

Airports

LaGuardia (LGA), 5 km · John F. Kennedy (JFK), 14 km · Newark Liberty (EWR), 25 km

Stations

LaGuardia Airport, 4.3 km · Delta Air Lines Flight 1086, 4.6 km · 104th Street, 5.4 km · 111th Street, 5.6 km · Middle Village–Metropolitan Avenue, 2.9 km

• Philadelphia → Elmhurst

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• Hartford → Elmhurst

  152 km · quickest by road, 3h 6m · $14–19
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• Albany → Elmhurst

  213 km · quickest by road, 3h 58m · $19–27
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