THE FRANNY REESE PRESERVE - 4 Mar 2012
This park is located in Lloyd and provides spectacular views of the Hudson River and Poughkeepsie.
We went expecting to get great shots of the Mid-Hudson Bridge - which we did - but we got something even better...If you go a bit further along the trails, and you will come across castle-like ruins and the remains of several other stone structures. You can't help but wonder who lived there, what was life like back then, what happened to cause the property to be abandoned...

The buildings went on and on; we couldn't take enough pictures.  Here are a few.  For more information about the buildings, which are the remains of a 19th century estate called Cedar Glen, go to http://www.abouttown.us/ulster/articles/cedar.shtml.