Delano-Hitch · June 2026
Newburgh's moment to build something great.
A $2.5M grant is within reach. Help us prove the community is ready.
Una subvención de $2.5M está al alcance. Ayúdanos a demostrar que la comunidad está lista.
Access · Acceso
The closest destination playgrounds need a car, and most are over 20 minutes away.
Los parques infantiles destino más cercanos requieren carro, y la mayoría quedan a más de veinte minutos.
The four standing playgrounds in Newburgh are small, dated, and not designed for kids with disabilities. To reach a destination playground today, families drive to Beacon, Monroe, Warwick, Fishkill, or further. That is twenty to thirty minutes each way, plus a tank of gas, plus a car.
Roughly one in four Newburgh households does not own a car. For those families, the regional playgrounds on this map may as well not exist. Each pin below is a destination playground families with cars drive outside Newburgh to reach, and the dashed rings show how far away they sit: 10, 20, and 30 miles from the city.
The map of where families drive
Every pin is a destination playground Newburgh families drive outside the city to reach. Click any pin for details.
Destination playground
Pink rings: 10, 20, 30 mi
- Sally's Dream Playground. Thomas Bull Memorial Park, Campbell Hall, Orange County. 25 minutes from Newburgh. Destination. Twenty acres of inclusive play inside a 700-acre Orange County park. Built 2003.
- Julie's Jungle. East Fishkill Lime Kiln Recreation Facility, 5 Old Lime Kiln Rd, Hopewell Junction, Dutchess County. 30 minutes from Newburgh. Destination. The first fully accessible playground in Dutchess County. 16,000 sq ft, volunteer-built.
- Warwick Playground Dreams. Stanley Deming Park, 1 Park Way, Warwick, Orange County. 42 minutes from Newburgh. Destination. 900+ Warwick volunteers built this ADA playground in seven days in 2019.
- Airplane Park (Ford R. Dally Park). Crane Park / Ford R. Dally Park, Monroe, Orange County. 40 minutes from Newburgh. Destination. A restored Korean War F-86 Sabre jet anchors a fully rebuilt 2025 inclusive playground.
- Chadwick Lake Park. 5 Lakeside Drive, Town of Newburgh, Orange County. 12 minutes from Newburgh. Destination. A 240-acre Town of Newburgh park around 105-acre Chadwick Lake, with a playground, picnic areas, trails, and seasonal kayak and canoe rentals.
- Wee Woods. Beacon park system, Beacon, Dutchess County. 8 minutes from Newburgh. Destination. The closest destination playground to Newburgh: 2.5 miles, across the Hudson.
- Hudson Highlands Nature Museum: Grasshopper Grove. Outdoor Discovery Campus, 120 Muser Drive, Cornwall, Orange County. 14 minutes from Newburgh. Destination. The Hudson Valley's first nature play space. Logs, boulders, sand, water. Ages 2-7.
- Bear Mountain Playground. Bear Mountain State Park, Bear Mountain, Rockland County. 25 minutes from Newburgh. Destination. A new accessible playground built into the slope of Bear Mountain. Opening Summer 2027.
- Rockland Lake State Park Playground. Rockland Lake State Park, Congers, Rockland County. 42 minutes from Newburgh. Destination. 1,520-acre state park around a 56-acre lake. Pool, splash pad, golf, playground.
- Bowdoin Park. 85 Sheafe Rd, Wappingers Falls, Dutchess County. 16 minutes from Newburgh. Destination. 301-acre Hudson River park with an award-winning accessible playground and seasonal splash pad.
Today · Hoy
Five playgrounds. One citywide goal.
Cinco parques. Una meta para toda la ciudad.
Newburgh has four standing neighborhood playgrounds: Audrey Carey, Hasbrouck Street, Tyrone Crabb, and Xavier Lunan. Delano-Hitch, the city's largest park at 26.7 acres, had two small playgrounds inside it; both were torn down last year for safety reasons and have not been replaced. Most of what remains needs work. The 2022 Scenic Hudson Inventory put eight Newburgh sites in the highest-priority Re-Envision tier. Our goal is to improve every one of them.
Right now, the State of New York has opened a once-in-a-generation funding window. We are going for the Delano-Hitch grant first because it is the biggest opportunity on the calendar. Then we keep going, park by park.
What we have today · Lo que tenemos hoy
Live · En vivo
days to the community presentation días hasta la presentación
On May 20 we present the design concepts to the community. Come see the concepts and tell the designers what Newburgh families actually need.
RSVP for May 20days to file días para entregar
That is how long we have left to file the $2.5M NY PLAYS state-grant application for the inclusive playground at Delano-Hitch. Deadline: June 15, 2026.
Learn about the NY PLAYS grantNow · Ahora
The Delano-Hitch flagship.
El proyecto bandera: Delano-Hitch.
The City of Newburgh has agreed to apply for a $2.5 million NY PLAYS state grant to build a destination-class inclusive playground at Delano-Hitch Park, the same state agency (DASNY) that helped fund our $15M Aquatic Center next door. Six coordinated zones. 1.2 acres. Application due June 15, 2026. We are building it together.
See the full plan →
The bigger story · La historia más grande
Delano-Hitch is one chapter.
Delano-Hitch es un capítulo.
Roughly one in four Newburghers lives in a part of the city underserved by parks. The South End and the West End carry that burden the hardest. Audrey Carey, Hasbrouck, Tyrone Crabb, and Xavier Lunan all need investment. The full citywide effort is a long-term commitment: years of work and millions of dollars, paid for by a mix of state grants, CDBG, and donations from people who want a better Newburgh for kids.
We are not waiting for one big check. We are stacking grants, lining up the City's match, and recruiting parents and donors one playground at a time. Sign up below to keep up as the work moves forward.
Tell us what you need. Dinos qué necesitas.
Eight to twelve questions, three minutes, anonymous. Your answers shape what gets built and where.
Ocho a doce preguntas, tres minutos, anónimo. Tus respuestas dan forma a lo que se construye y dónde.
Care specifically about Delano-Hitch? Take the deeper grant survey instead.