Location: in Port Jervis, Orange County, NY
Managed by the City Department of Public Works
845-858-4017

Size of Area:

Geography and Use: Park with picnic areas, bathrooms, trails and panoramic vistas of the Shawangunk and Kittatinny mountains, along with the Delaware and Neversink river valleys.

General Site Information: In 1914, the Elks, seeing the possibilities of the development of the area as a public park, raised the necessary funds to purchase the tract under the leadership of the Rev. William J. Donohue, then pastor of the Most Sacred Heart Church. The property was named Elks Park.

In the years that followed, Skyline Drive, a four-mile road that ran along the crest of the two mountains, was built and other improvements to the park were made. In 1932, Sarah Belle Thorne made a substantial donation in memory of her brother-in-law, Charles Brox, and the property was conveyed from the Elks to the city and became known as the Elks-Brox Memorial Park. In later years, part of it was used as a Girl Scout Camp and as late as the 1980s, a public campground. In 1996 the park was reopened and new picnic areas, trails, and bathrooms were constructed.