5. DEER PARK
5. DEER PARK
This wet meadow was once home to Vassar’s herd of domesticated deer that grazed behind a wire enclosure. A clear brook, fringed with long grasses and wild-flowers, flowed through the meadow past a rustic bridge, duck pond, and a solitary Norway Spruce.
SITE LOCATION:
185 Academy Street
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
845.454.2060
HOURS:
Dawn Until Dusk
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The Springside Walking Tour is funded, in part, by a grant from the Hudson River Valley Greenway.
The land that now comprises Springside is part of the homelands of the Munsee Lenape, Indigenous peoples who have an enduring connection to this place.
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