The Park's master plan has been one of our best protections against many incompatible proposals. One park problem is the clever ways vehicle drivers avoid the restrictions on cars coming into the beach or Park's central interior rather than park in the perimeter lots. One of the greatest values of the park is, however, that it will afford people a refuge from the noise, air pollution and danger of the automobile. We believe, therefore, that park patrons should not be permitted to drive their private vehicles through the park. Passes are available at the Visitor Center for elder citizens or families with young children to park near the West Point beach.
Memorials are a problem in Parks.
Great parks like Central Park in New York and Golden Gate Park in San Francisco are loaded with statues, memorials, museums and other buildings. It should not happen here. Other great urban parks of the world demonstrate the folly of yielding to these pressures. In many of those parks the most attractive spaces have become cluttered with memorial statues. It would be well to establish a firm policy against the placing of such memorials within the park.