7. Rock Roost

WALKING TOUR

7. ROCK ROOST

“A short spur trail circumvents a rocky outcrop of impressive scale…a rough mass of slate rock twenty or thirty feet in height, with a dip of forty-five degrees, covered chiefly with oaks, and crowned by a single cedar tree.”

— Benson J. Lossing, Vassar College and Its Founder, 1867

The rugged rock outcropping of this feature is a clear expression of a ‘picturesque’ landscape element described by Downing. The single cedar is gone, but Rock Roost remains one of Springside’s most dramatic landforms covered with oaks, tulip poplars, and maples.

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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