La Tourette Park and Golf Course

La Tourette Park and Golf Course is a 511-acre park within the Staten Island Greenbelt, encompassing an 18-hole public golf course, extensive natural areas, and the historic La Tourette House. The park is one of the largest in the borough and forms a central section of the Greenbelt's continuous green corridor.

The La Tourette Golf Course is one of three public golf courses on Staten Island (along with Silver Lake and South Shore), providing affordable public golf amid the rolling terrain and mature trees of the Greenbelt. The course's natural setting, winding through wooded hills and stream valleys, gives it a character that rivals private clubs.

The La Tourette House, a Federal-style manor built around 1836, sits within the park and has been used for various civic purposes. The house and its surrounding landscape provide a glimpse of the rural estate life that characterized central Staten Island before urbanization.

The park's non-golf areas include extensive hiking trails through mature forest, meadows, and stream corridors. These natural areas contribute to the Greenbelt's function as an ecological corridor, supporting wildlife movement and habitat connectivity across the island's central ridge.

La Tourette Park represents the Greenbelt at its most expansive: over 500 acres of golf, forest, meadow, and historic landscape that together preserve the character of rural Staten Island within the boundaries of the nation's largest city.