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Panorama of Crane Beach in September 2007. Crane Beach is a 1,234-acre (4.99 km 2) conservation and recreation property located in Ipswich, Massachusetts, immediately north of Cape Ann. It consists of a four-mile-long (6 km) sandy beachfront, dunes, and a maritime pitch pine forest. Five and a half miles of hiking trails through the dunes and ...
Sandy Point State Reservation is a coastal Massachusetts state park located in the town of Ipswich at the southern tip of Plum Island. The reservation is managed by the Department of Conservation and Recreation and is an important nesting area for the piping plover and the least tern .
Crane Beach: With 1,200 acres of beach front (with white sand!), sand dunes, and salt marshes, it's little wonder that about 350,000 people visit this beach annually. It's an important site for ...
Ipswich, MA Posnov/Getty Images Where to Stay: Historic Downtown Apartment (from $177/night, sleeps 7); Fourshe Villa (from $521/night, sleeps 9); Garden Getaway (from $171/night, sleeps 4)
The Crane Wildlife Refuge, located in Ipswich and Essex, Massachusetts, is a 674-acre (2.73 km 2) property managed by The Trustees of Reservations. The refuge contains Long Island, Choate Island, and small areas of the Great Marsh. Located nearby are Castle Hill and Crane Beach, other properties managed by the
The following is a list of properties managed by The Trustees of Reservations (TTOR), a non-profit land conservation and historic preservation organization dedicated to preserving natural and historical places in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The Trustees are the oldest regional land trust in the world.
Castle Hill is a 56,881 sq ft (5,284.4 m 2) mansion in Ipswich, Massachusetts, which was completed in 1928 as a summer home for Mr. and Mrs. Richard Teller Crane, Jr. It is also the name of the 165-acre (67 ha) drumlin surrounded by sea and salt marsh that the home was built atop.
The property has been owned by The Trustees of Reservations since 1986. [2] About 50 acres (20 ha) of the reservation consists of salt marsh. White's Hill, which includes fine views of the Massachusetts coast, including Crane Beach, was sold by Mrs. Stavros to the Trustees in 1988 at well below market value. At the top of White's Hill is a 50 ...