Discover Melville

Melville offers a variety of ways to tailor your stay to your interests: visitors can feed giraffes at White Post Animal Farm, the historic Walt Whitman Trail leads to Jayne’s Hill, and there are several different options for sports and recreation. When planning, you can decide whether to focus mainly on nature, wildlife encounters, art or active entertainment.

Experience Wildlife and Discover the Walt Whitman Trail

The Giraffe Experience at White Post Animal Farm gives visitors the opportunity to feed giraffes. The experience is included with paid admission to the Animal Farm. If an animal encounter would interest your travel group, you can include giraffe feeding as a specific activity in Melville.

The historic Walt Whitman Trail offers a different experience. It runs through West Hills County Park in Melville and leads to Jayne’s Hill. The animal encounter and the trail represent different ways to spend your stay: one involves feeding giraffes at an animal farm, while the other is a historic trail through a county park leading to a named destination. Which of these experiences appeals to you more can help you plan your time in Melville around your interests.

Choose Sports and Recreation to Suit Your Interests

For bowling, Lucky Strike Melville is a specific option: the venue has 47 bowling lanes and also includes an arcade. If your group has varied interests, you can consider both options separately when planning.

All Sportz in Melville offers dek hockey, basketball, volleyball, pickleball, soccer and lacrosse. The selection therefore includes several sports rather than focusing on a single discipline. You can consider which ones would interest your travel group and whether you would prefer to focus on a particular sport or have a wider range of options when planning your vacation.

Consider Art and Getting There

Art-Trium Gallery is an art gallery at 25 Melville Park Road in Melville. If art is one of your interests, you can add the gallery to your itinerary as a cultural activity. Along with the animal encounter, trail and sports, it offers another way to experience the different reasons to visit Melville.

For those arriving by car, The Gravity Vault offers a specific point of reference: it is located in Melville right off NY 110 and two minutes by car from Interstate 495.

Put Together a Stay That Suits You

The options mentioned vary considerably: giraffe feeding, a historic trail, bowling with an arcade, a range of sports and an art gallery each appeal to different interests. If you are traveling with other people, you can discuss in advance which experiences would appeal to everyone and which might suit individual interests more.

If you would like to explore other places, you can also find: Rocky Point, Greenlawn, Brookhaven, Medford, Cold Spring Harbor, Hampton Bays, Wading River and Quogue.

For the broader travel overview: Suffolk.