NYC Unisphere Solar System Walk
☉ The Unisphere, Flushing Meadows-Corona Park
Starts at ☉ The Unisphere, Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. You'll get directions there, then scan the GO code on your card when you arrive.
The Sun
☉ The Unisphere, Flushing Meadows-Corona Park
The 120-foot stainless steel globe erected for the 1964 World's Fair — the largest representation of Earth ever built. At this scale (1 : 38 million), the inner planets are a walk through Queens, but Neptune is 118 km away in the Catskill Mountains. The outer planets are a multi-day journey by design: the Unisphere's true scale makes the immensity of the solar system impossible to ignore.
Getting there
The route
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