Croton Parks Croton-on-Hudson, NY

Croton Parks — Every park, trail & historic site in Croton-on-Hudson.

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  • 29 Parks
  • 46 Trails
  • 17 Historic sites
  • 170 Park places

Black Rock Park

Village park on the banks of the Croton River off Quaker Bridge Road, with picnic areas, riverbank fishing, bocce courts and a fenced dog park. A Croton Recreation Photo ID is required, and swimming in the river here is prohibited.

  1. Black Rock Park

    Park

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    Position: OpenStreetMap

  2. Parking

    Position: OpenStreetMap

  3. Black Rock Park picnic area & bocce courts

    Picnic area

    Picnic area and bocce courts by the Croton River at Black Rock Park, off Quaker Bridge Road. Recreation Photo ID required.

    Position: Estimated

Brinton Brook Sanctuary

Saw Mill River Audubon's largest sanctuary: 156 acres and more than four miles of blazed trails around a pond, off Route 9A just north of the village, linked to the village trail system by the Highland and Coyote trails.

  1. Brinton Brook Sanctuary

    Park

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    Position: OpenStreetMap

  2. Highland Trail

    Marked trail

    Trail · 1.43 mi · marked trail

    Position: OpenStreetMap

  3. Pond Loop

    Marked trail

    Trail · 1.21 mi · marked trail

    Position: OpenStreetMap

  4. Split Rock Trail

    Marked trail

    Trail · 0.51 mi · marked trail

    Position: OpenStreetMap

  5. Turkey Trail

    Marked trail

    Trail · 0.47 mi · marked trail

    Position: OpenStreetMap

  6. Laurel Rock Trail

    Marked trail

    Trail · 0.44 mi · marked trail

    Position: OpenStreetMap

  7. Coyote Trail

    Marked trail

    Trail · 0.39 mi · marked trail

    Position: OpenStreetMap

  8. Old Farm Road

    Marked trail

    Trail · 0.27 mi · marked trail

    Position: OpenStreetMap

  9. Paths

    Marked trail

    Trail · 0.11 mi · marked trail

    Position: OpenStreetMap

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    Position: OpenStreetMap

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    Position: OpenStreetMap

CET Woods Trails

Informal, unmarked paths through the wooded village-owned open space between Carrie E. Tompkins Elementary School and the Croton River ravine — what the village trails guide calls the Croton Gorge Area.

  1. CET Woods Trails

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    Position: Estimated

Croton Dog Park

The village's only off-leash dog park: a fenced run with a dog agility course inside Black Rock Park, on the Croton River off Quaker Bridge Road. Open to village residents holding a free dog park permit (Recreation Photo ID plus village dog license required).

  1. Croton Dog Park

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    Position: Estimated

Croton Gorge Park

97-acre Westchester County park at the base of the New Croton Dam, completed in 1906. Picnic grounds, fishing on the Croton River, a playground, winter sledding, and the northern trailhead of the 26.2-mile Old Croton Aqueduct trail.

  1. Croton Gorge Park

    Park

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    Position: OpenStreetMap

  2. Paths

    Marked trail

    Trail · 1.09 mi · marked trail

    Position: OpenStreetMap

  3. New Croton Dam and Spillway

    Historic site

    The monumental dam that expanded New York City’s Croton water supply.

    Notes Viewed from the Croton Gorge Park lawn near the parking lot; the crest is reached by a steep unpaved climb or from Croton Dam Road.
    Position: Published by the operator

  4. The Bowery (dam workers' village site)

    Historic site

    The former settlement that housed New Croton Dam workers and their families.

    Position: Estimated

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  8. Croton Gorge picnic areas

    Picnic area

    Picnic areas on the lawns between the parking area and the Croton River, below the dam spillway.

    Position: Estimated

  9. Playground

    Position: OpenStreetMap

  10. Croton Gorge Park restrooms

    Restrooms

    Stand-alone restroom building near the main parking area at the base of the New Croton Dam.

    Position: Estimated

Croton Landing Park

30-acre village park on a remediated industrial waterfront, with over a mile of Hudson River shoreline. Its paved path is part of the Westchester RiverWalk and holds the tri-municipal 9/11 memorial "Reaching Through the Shadow." Open to all; no resident permit required.

  1. Croton Landing Park

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    Position: OpenStreetMap

  2. Croton RiverWalk

    Marked trail

    Trail · 1.13 mi · marked trail

    Position: OpenStreetMap

  3. Paths

    Marked trail

    Trail · 220 ft · marked trail

    Position: OpenStreetMap

  4. Ball field

    Position: OpenStreetMap

  5. Beach

    Position: OpenStreetMap

  6. Croton Landing kayak & canoe racks

    Boat launch

    Seasonal kayak/canoe storage racks at Croton Landing Park, rented through Croton Recreation, with hand-carry access to the Hudson River shoreline.

    Position: Estimated

  7. Drinking water

    Position: OpenStreetMap

  8. 9/11 Memorial Sundial ('Reaching Through the Shadow')

    Historic site

    A waterfront memorial whose World Trade Center steel beam is also a sundial.

    Notes Reached by the level paved riverfront path through Croton Landing Park.
    Position: Estimated

  9. Croton North Railroad Station

    Historic site

    A surviving station from the village’s earlier railroad landscape.

    Notes Private property viewed from Senasqua Road / the riverfront path; no public interior access.
    Position: Published by the operator

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  13. Restrooms

    Position: OpenStreetMap

Croton Point Park

508-acre Westchester County park on a Hudson River peninsula, with a seasonal swimming beach, campground, nature center and trails. Holds 7,000-year-old oyster-shell middens, 19th-century Underhill wine cellars, and a capped former county landfill now managed as grassland.

  1. Croton Point Park

    Park

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    Position: OpenStreetMap

  2. Croton Point Park entrance

    Entrance

    Main (and only) vehicle entrance to Croton Point Park, from Croton Point Avenue past the ticket booth.

    Position: Estimated

  3. Paths

    Marked trail

    Trail · 2.86 mi · marked trail

    Position: OpenStreetMap

  4. Croton Point loop trails

    Marked trail

    Trail · 0.79 mi · marked trail

    A network of mowed and gravel paths circles the capped-landfill meadow and reaches the Nature Center at Enoch's Nose. The county's 2026 trail map marks the routes but does not name them; the full circuit of the point is about 3.7 miles.

    Position: OpenStreetMap

  5. Point Beach Spur

    Marked trail

    Trail · 134 ft · marked trail

    Position: OpenStreetMap

  6. Ball field

    Position: OpenStreetMap

  7. Ball field

    Position: OpenStreetMap

  8. Ball field

    Position: OpenStreetMap

  9. Beach

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  10. Croton Point beach

    Beach

    Swimming beach on Haverstraw Bay along the park's northwest shore, by the bathhouse at Mother's Lap.

    Position: Estimated

  11. Car-top boat launch

    Boat launch

    Car-top boat launch (kayaks, canoes, small craft) on the Haverstraw Bay shore at the north end of the park's beach.

    Position: Estimated

  12. Kitchawanc Village Site (Navish) and Shell Middens

    Historic site

    Croton Point’s Indigenous history, known through archaeology and historical accounts.

    Notes Interpretive context for the park landscape; there is no developed site to visit. Disturbing or collecting from archaeological deposits is prohibited.
    Position: Estimated

  13. Teller's Point (HMS Vulture site)

    Historic site

    The Hudson River headland connected with the capture of Major John André.

    Notes Reached by unpaved park roads and shoreline paths from the main parking areas; rocky at the water's edge.
    Position: Estimated

  14. Treaty Oak Site

    Historic site

    A marker preserving a local tradition about a 1645 peace agreement.

    Position: Published by the operator

  15. Underhill Wine Cellars Ruins

    Historic site

    Brick vaults recalling Croton Point’s nineteenth-century wine industry.

    Notes Reached on foot along the park road toward Teller's Point; unpaved surfaces. Entrances are sealed - exterior viewing only.
    Position: Estimated

  16. Nature Center parking (Enoch's Nose)

    Parking

    Small parking area by the Croton Point Nature Center at Enoch's Nose, the park's northwest tip.

    Position: Estimated

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  23. North pavilions

    Picnic area

    Two rental picnic pavilions on the bluff above the park's northwest shore.

    Position: Estimated

  24. South pavilion

    Picnic area

    Rental picnic pavilion southwest of the main west parking lot.

    Position: Estimated

  25. Playground

    Position: OpenStreetMap

  26. Playground

    Position: OpenStreetMap

  27. Playground

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  28. Beach bathhouse

    Restrooms

    Bathhouse at Mother's Lap with restrooms and showers, serving the swimming beach.

    Position: Estimated

  29. Campground restrooms & showers

    Restrooms

    Restroom and shower building in the camping area, near the Rec Hall south of the campground entrance.

    Position: Estimated

  30. Restrooms

    Position: OpenStreetMap

  31. Restrooms & showers near Teller's Point

    Restrooms

    Restroom and shower building among the cabins on the park's southern spit, toward Teller's Point.

    Position: Estimated

  32. Restrooms at the north pavilions

    Restrooms

    Restroom building serving the two rental pavilions above the northwest shore.

    Position: Estimated

  33. Restrooms at the north playground

    Restrooms

    Restroom building beside the playground north of the main west parking lot.

    Position: Estimated

  34. Restrooms near the park entrance

    Restrooms

    Stand-alone restroom building near the park entrance and entrance parking lot.

    Position: Estimated

Croton River Trails

Unmarked, unmaintained paths along the lower Croton River linking informal swimming and fishing spots such as Mayo's Landing and Paradise Island. There are no lifeguards; dam releases can raise the current within minutes, and swimmers have drowned here.

  1. Croton River Trails

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Dobbs Park

Village park off Maple Street in the heart of Croton, named for Little League volunteer Madeline Dobbs and her husband Ernest. Its Little League field, basketball court and playground were all rebuilt in a 2025–26 renovation part-funded by a federal Community Development Block Grant.

  1. Dobbs Park

    Park

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    Position: OpenStreetMap

  2. Paths

    Marked trail

    Trail · 0.12 mi · marked trail

    Position: OpenStreetMap

  3. Ball field

    Position: OpenStreetMap

  4. Ball field

    Position: OpenStreetMap

  5. Playground

    Position: OpenStreetMap

Duck Pond Park

Village park on Bungalow Road with a playground, baseball field and basketball court beside a small pond that shelters ducks and other wildlife and serves as the village's ice-skating spot in winter. Croton Recreation Photo ID required.

  1. Duck Pond Park

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  2. Ball field

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  3. Ball field

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  7. Playground

    Position: OpenStreetMap

Echo Canoe Launch

Village boat launch at 20 Veterans Plaza, at the south end of the Croton-Harmon station area: access to the Croton and Hudson rivers for canoes, kayaks and small motorized boats, no permit required. No residential restrictions.

  1. Echo Canoe Launch

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    Position: Estimated

  2. Echo Canoe Launch

    Boat launch

    Village boat launch onto the lower Croton River at 20 Veterans Plaza: canoes, kayaks and small motorized boats, no permit required, no residential restrictions.

    Position: Estimated

Firefighters Field

Lighted village softball and Little League field at the end of Gerstein Street, behind Carrie E. Tompkins Elementary School. The Croton-Harmon school district uses it as a home field for softball under an intermunicipal agreement and helps maintain it each spring.

  1. Firefighters Field

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    Position: Estimated

Gouveia Park

Hilltop village park off Albany Post Road on the former Gouveia property, given to the village under Laurel Gouveia's will with a $1 million endowment. Lawns, gardens and Hudson River views; the house is now the Ann Gallelli REAL Space community facility.

  1. Gouveia Park

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    Position: OpenStreetMap

  2. Paths

    Marked trail

    Trail · 0.16 mi · marked trail

    Position: OpenStreetMap

  3. Parking

    Position: OpenStreetMap

Graff Sanctuary

A quiet 29-acre Saw Mill River Audubon sanctuary on a woodland ridge overlooking the Hudson, between Furnace Dock Road and Briggs Lane, with three short blazed trails and nesting great horned owls.

  1. Graff Sanctuary

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    Position: OpenStreetMap

  2. Tulip Tree Trail

    Marked trail

    Trail · 0.46 mi · marked trail

    Position: OpenStreetMap

  3. River View Trail

    Marked trail

    Trail · 0.40 mi · marked trail

    Position: OpenStreetMap

  4. Ball field

    Position: OpenStreetMap

Half Moon Bay Esplanade

Waterfront walkway along the Hudson at the Half Moon Bay condominiums and marina, near the Croton River mouth. A public-access link in the Westchester RiverWalk chain, it joins Croton-Harmon station and Croton Point Avenue to Senasqua Park and, via the 2017 Elliott Way boardwalk, Croton Landing.

  1. Half Moon Bay Esplanade

    Park

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    Position: Hand-traced from imagery

  2. Paths

    Marked trail

    Trail · 0.53 mi · marked trail

    Position: OpenStreetMap

  3. Ball field

    Position: OpenStreetMap

  4. Ball field

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  5. Parking

    Position: OpenStreetMap

Harrison Street Park

Small village playground park (about a third of an acre) at the corner of Harrison Street and Grand Street (Route 129), with paved pathways, benches and a play area for young children. Croton Recreation Photo ID required.

  1. Harrison Street Park

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    Position: Estimated

  2. Playground

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Jane E. Lytle Memorial Arboretum

A roughly 22-acre village-owned nature preserve of woods, streams and a central wetland swamp off Fox Lane, run by the nonprofit Croton Arboretum and Sanctuary, Inc., with a loop trail and a quarter-mile wheelchair-accessible boardwalk with a gazebo.

  1. Jane E. Lytle Memorial Arboretum

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    Position: OpenStreetMap

  2. Boardwalk Trail

    Marked trail

    Trail · 0.24 mi · marked trail

    Position: OpenStreetMap

  3. Beech Trail

    Marked trail

    Trail · 0.23 mi · marked trail

    Position: OpenStreetMap

  4. Marshland Trail

    Marked trail

    Trail · 0.20 mi · marked trail

    Position: OpenStreetMap

  5. Overlook Trail

    Marked trail

    Trail · 463 ft · marked trail

    Position: OpenStreetMap

  6. Paths

    Marked trail

    Trail · 436 ft · marked trail

    Position: OpenStreetMap

  7. Parking

    Position: OpenStreetMap

Kaplan's Pond

Village-owned 8.5-acre natural area at Lounsbury Road and Giglio Court: a small dammed pond and wetland with a 0.2-mile path, linked to the Mount Airy trail network by Kaplan's Pond Trail.

  1. Kaplan's Pond

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Manes Field

Multipurpose village athletic field behind Carrie E. Tompkins Elementary School, dedicated in April 2022 to David J. Manes, longtime coach and manager of Croton's championship Little League team. Used for soccer, lacrosse and youth baseball by AYSO, the school district and Little League.

  1. Manes Field

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    Position: Estimated

Mayo's Landing

Village-designated conservation area on the south bank of the lower Croton River, reached from Nordica Drive or by water. A historic river landing, used today by paddlers and licensed fishermen.

  1. Mayo's Landing

    Park

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    Position: OpenStreetMap

  2. Paths

    Marked trail

    Trail · 195 ft · marked trail

    Position: OpenStreetMap

Old Croton Aqueduct Trailway

Linear state historic park atop the 1842 gravity aqueduct that first brought Croton water to New York City. The Croton section runs from the New Croton Dam at Croton Gorge Park south past stone ventilator towers and along Quaker Bridge Road toward Ossining.

  1. Old Croton Aqueduct Trailway

    Park

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    Position: OpenStreetMap

  2. Paths

    Marked trail

    Trail · 0.11 mi · marked trail

    Position: OpenStreetMap

  3. Ball field

    Position: OpenStreetMap

  4. Ball field

    Position: OpenStreetMap

  5. Old Croton Aqueduct Ventilator (Croton Gorge)

    Historic site

    An air shaft from New York City’s original Croton water system.

    Notes On the unpaved aqueduct trail; uneven natural surface.
    Position: Estimated

  6. Old Croton Aqueduct Ventilator (Quaker Bridge Road, north)

    Historic site

    An air shaft from New York City’s original Croton water system.

    Notes On the unpaved aqueduct trail near on-road walking sections of Quaker Bridge Road; uneven natural surface.
    Position: Estimated

  7. Old Croton Aqueduct Ventilator (Quaker Bridge Road, south)

    Historic site

    An air shaft from New York City’s original Croton water system.

    Notes On the unpaved aqueduct trail; uneven natural surface.
    Position: Estimated

  8. Parking

    Position: OpenStreetMap

  9. Restrooms

    Position: OpenStreetMap

Paradise Island

Undeveloped, wooded 22-acre island in the lower Croton River, owned by Westchester County. No facilities and no bridge — reached by canoe or kayak.

  1. Paradise Island

    Park

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Salt Hill State Forest

A 269.7-acre DEC state forest off Route 129 east of the village, in the Town of Cortlandt: unmarked woods-road trails lead from a small Route 129 pull-off past Blue Lake to the 699-foot summit of Salt Hill and the ruins of a 1950s fire tower.

  1. Salt Hill State Forest

    Park

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    Position: OpenStreetMap

  2. Fire Tower Trail

    Marked trail

    Trail · 2.15 mi · marked trail

    Position: OpenStreetMap

  3. Paths

    Marked trail

    Trail · 0.44 mi · marked trail

    Position: OpenStreetMap

  4. Blue Lake Loop

    Marked trail

    Trail · 0.39 mi · marked trail

    Position: OpenStreetMap

  5. Leander's Way

    Marked trail

    Trail · 0.22 mi · marked trail

    Position: OpenStreetMap

  6. Nelson Mountain Fire Tower

    Historic site

    Remnants of a former forest fire lookout in Salt Hill State Forest.

    Position: OpenStreetMap

  7. Parking

    Position: OpenStreetMap

Senasqua Park

Riverfront village park at 2 Elliott Way with picnic groves, a bathhouse, playground, volleyball court, reservable pavilion and the village boat basin (moorings and launch ramp). Residents-only in season; the name preserves a Kitchawanc place-name recorded in a 1682 deed.

  1. Senasqua Park

    Park

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    Position: OpenStreetMap

  2. Paths

    Marked trail

    Trail · 238 ft · marked trail

    Position: OpenStreetMap

  3. Beach

    Position: OpenStreetMap

  4. Boat launch

    Position: OpenStreetMap

  5. Senasqua Park pavilion

    Picnic area

    Large rental pavilion at Senasqua Park, reservable for group picnics of up to 125 people through Croton Recreation.

    Position: Estimated

  6. Playground

    Position: OpenStreetMap

  7. Restrooms

    Position: OpenStreetMap

Silver Lake Park

The village swimming beach on the Croton River, where a low dam forms a guarded summer swimming area open to Croton village and school-district residents with a Recreation Photo ID. Daily fees or season permits; the park closes when river currents run high.

  1. Silver Lake Park

    Park

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    Position: OpenStreetMap

  2. Paths

    Marked trail

    Trail · 0.19 mi · marked trail

    Position: OpenStreetMap

  3. Silver Lake beach

    Beach

    The village's swimming beach on the dammed Croton River at Silver Lake Park, off Truesdale Drive. Seasonal; permit or daily fee, resident ID required.

    Position: Estimated

  4. Parking

    Position: OpenStreetMap

  5. Silver Lake pavilion

    Picnic area

    Rental pavilion at Silver Lake Park; reserved through Croton Recreation with the seasonal facility-use forms.

    Position: Estimated

  6. Silver Lake bathhouse

    Restrooms

    Bathhouse at the Silver Lake swim area; the park also has a pavilion available for rental.

    Position: Estimated

Spencer Field

Croton-Harmon school district's turf field and six-lane track at 10 Gerstein Street, behind Carrie E. Tompkins Elementary School. Rebuilt 2024-25 and reopened September 2025; open for community use on days when school is not in session.

  1. Spencer Field

    Park

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  2. Ball field

    Position: OpenStreetMap

Sunset Park

Small neighborhood playground park between Lexington Drive and Sunset Drive, with a fenced-in play area, wooden play structures and a large sandbox. The playground was rebuilt in 2017.

  1. Sunset Park

    Park

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  2. Sunset Park

    Playground

    Position: OpenStreetMap

Van Cortlandt Manor

National Historic Landmark manor house and 18th-century Ferry House tavern at the confluence of the Croton and Hudson Rivers, run as a museum by Historic Hudson Valley. Temporarily closed for a $4.8M restoration; hosts the Great Jack O'Lantern Blaze each fall.

  1. Van Cortlandt Manor

    Closed

    Park

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    Position: Published by the operator

Vassallo Park

Pocket park off Old Post Road South next to the Merwin parking lot, behind Holy Name of Mary Church: a lawn, walking path, stone stage, picnic tables and a historic Croton River grist-mill millstone. Site of village gatherings including the annual holiday tree and menorah lightings.

  1. Vassallo Park

    Park

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    Position: OpenStreetMap

  2. Paths

    Marked trail

    Trail · 448 ft · marked trail

    Position: OpenStreetMap

  3. The Dummy Light

    Historic site

    Croton’s distinctive pedestal traffic signal at Grand Street and Old Post Road South.

    Notes Viewed from the sidewalks of an active street intersection - do not stand in the roadway.
    Position: Estimated

  4. Parking

    Position: OpenStreetMap

Around the village

  1. Old Croton Aqueduct Trailway

    Marked trail

    Trailway · 5.59 mi · marked trail

    The state historic park trailway along the 1842 aqueduct — level, unpaved, and continuous from the New Croton Dam south through the village toward Ossining.

    Report
    Position: OpenStreetMap

  2. Croton Trails System

    Marked trail

    Trail · 5.33 mi · marked trail

    Position: OpenStreetMap

  3. Briarcliff-Peekskill Trailway

    Marked trail

    Trail · 2.67 mi · marked trail

    Position: OpenStreetMap

  4. Upper Highland Trail

    Marked trail

    Trail · 1.09 mi · marked trail

    Position: OpenStreetMap

  5. Croton Gorge Trail

    Marked trail

    Trail · 0.59 mi · marked trail

    Position: OpenStreetMap

  6. CCNS Trail

    Marked trail

    Trail · 0.50 mi · marked trail

    Position: OpenStreetMap

  7. Jack-in-the-Pulpit Trail

    Marked trail

    Trail · 0.23 mi · marked trail

    Position: OpenStreetMap

  8. Kaplan's Pond Trail

    Marked trail

    Trail · 0.22 mi · marked trail

    Position: OpenStreetMap

  9. River Trail

    Marked trail

    Trail · 0.16 mi · marked trail

    Position: OpenStreetMap

  10. Blue Trail

    Marked trail

    Trail · 0.15 mi · marked trail

    Position: OpenStreetMap

  11. Croton Trailway Connection

    Marked trail

    Trail · 0.11 mi · marked trail

    Position: OpenStreetMap

  12. Quaker Bridge Trail

    Marked trail

    Trail · 386 ft · marked trail

    Position: OpenStreetMap

  13. Rubin's Trail

    Marked trail

    Trail · 340 ft · marked trail

    Position: OpenStreetMap

  14. Asbury UMC, Bethel Chapel & Cemetery

    Historic site

    A church and burial landscape tied to generations of Croton residents.

    Position: Published by the operator

  15. Croton-Harmon Station and Harmon Shops

    Historic site

    The railroad maintenance landscape behind Croton-Harmon’s role as a rail hub.

    Notes The station is fully accessible (elevators, accessible parking); the shops are not open to the public.
    Position: Published by the operator

  16. Veterans Corners Monument

    Historic site

    The Five Corners memorial honoring Croton residents lost in war.

    Position: Published by the operator

  17. World War I Memorial

    Historic site

    Croton’s original First World War monument near the Municipal Building.

    Position: Published by the operator
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Location histories · 17

  • Asbury Church, Bethel Chapel & Cemetery

    A church and burial landscape tied to generations of Croton residents.

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    This site brings together Asbury’s Methodist congregation, Bethel Chapel, and the cemetery. The congregation’s own historical newsletter describes the purchase of land from the Barlow estate in 1875 for a new church. Together, the buildings and graves preserve different periods of the community’s religious and family life.

    Croton Friends of History’s study of the cemetery looks at the imagery carved into older gravestones and what it reveals about remembrance. Playwright Lorraine Hansberry, whose A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959, is among those buried here. The cemetery remains a place of remembrance as well as historical interest.

  • Croton North Railroad Station

    A surviving station from the village’s earlier railroad landscape.

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    The National Register record identifies this Senasqua Road station with the New York Central Railroad and lists 1890 and 1930 among its significant years. It entered the National Register in 1987 for its transportation and architectural history.

    The building helps explain a waterfront shaped by passenger service and rail infrastructure, before today’s Croton-Harmon station became the familiar hub. Its historic significance belongs to the station building and its setting; this marker is a place to read that history, rather than a promise of current passenger service.

  • Harmon Railroad Shops

    The railroad maintenance landscape behind Croton-Harmon’s role as a rail hub.

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    The Croton Historical Society’s archival collection includes photographs of Harmon’s New York Central shops from 1907. These buildings and yards tell a story of railroad labor: inspecting, repairing, and maintaining the equipment that kept passenger service moving.

    The shops also connect the village with the railroad’s shift toward electric operation in the New York metropolitan area. Historic photographs make the scale of the working complex visible, beyond what a station platform alone conveys. This marker describes a rail facility’s history; the operational rail property is not a public walking destination.

  • Navish / Kitchawanc · Croton Point

    Croton Point’s Indigenous history, known through archaeology and historical accounts.

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    Croton Point was an Indigenous landscape long before it became parkland, farmland, or a destination for rail travelers. Archaeological investigations documented shell middens, pottery, and other traces of life along the river. Louis A. Brennan’s original 1962 report discusses food gathering and occupation at Croton Point.

    Names such as Navish and Kitchawanc connect the peninsula to a longer history that cannot be reduced to one surviving building. The pin represents the broader historical area. It does not locate a particular archaeological deposit or establish the precise limits of an earlier settlement.

  • Nelson Mountain Fire Tower Site

    Remnants of a former forest fire lookout in Salt Hill State Forest.

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    The Forest Fire Lookout Association lists Nelson Mountain’s tower as gone. A photographed 2017 field account documents remains at the lookout site and describes a 73-foot Aermotor tower erected in 1950, used from 1951, and closed after the 1971 season.

    The site recalls a period when elevated observers watched the landscape for smoke and helped protect forests from fire. Visitors should understand the pin as the former lookout location, rather than an intact tower available to climb. The photographs provide a dated record of the remnants, not a current condition report.

  • New Croton Dam and Spillway

    The monumental dam that expanded New York City’s Croton water supply.

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    The New Croton Reservoir entered service in 1905, replacing the much smaller reservoir built for the original 1842 water system. New York City’s Department of Environmental Protection gives its capacity as 19 billion gallons. Water leaves through the New Croton Aqueduct for Jerome Park Reservoir in the Bronx.

    The great masonry dam and curved spillway are the most visible pieces of that expansion. Building them also brought workers and families to the Croton River valley. The nearby Bowery settlement tells the human side of the project: the homes, shops, and boardinghouses that supported construction.

  • Old Croton Aqueduct Ventilator · Croton Gorge

    An air shaft from New York City’s original Croton water system.

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    This Croton Gorge marker identifies a masonry ventilator along the Old Croton Aqueduct. It admitted fresh air to the enclosed water conduit.

    These towers stood roughly a mile apart. Some also allowed maintenance access. Their repeated form reveals the engineering corridor beneath today’s trailway.

  • Old Croton Aqueduct Ventilator · Quaker Bridge · North

    An air shaft from New York City’s original Croton water system.

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    This Quaker Bridge · North marker identifies a masonry ventilator along the Old Croton Aqueduct. It admitted fresh air to the enclosed water conduit.

    These towers stood roughly a mile apart. Some also allowed maintenance access. Their repeated form reveals the engineering corridor beneath today’s trailway.

  • Old Croton Aqueduct Ventilator · Quaker Bridge · South

    An air shaft from New York City’s original Croton water system.

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    This Quaker Bridge · South marker identifies a masonry ventilator along the Old Croton Aqueduct. It admitted fresh air to the enclosed water conduit.

    These towers stood roughly a mile apart. Some also allowed maintenance access. Their repeated form reveals the engineering corridor beneath today’s trailway.

  • Reaching Through the Shadow · 9/11 Memorial

    A waterfront memorial whose World Trade Center steel beam is also a sundial.

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    The memorial was presented for dedication on September 11, 2014, to Buchanan, Cortlandt, and Croton-on-Hudson. Architect James W. Rhodes and sculptor Lauren Davis created its design.

    A beam from the World Trade Center’s North Tower casts a shadow across bronze markers recalling September 11. A bronze woman reaches toward it, expressing grief and continuing hope. The North American Sundial Society documents the working dial: time itself becomes part of the act of remembrance.

  • Teller’s Point

    The Hudson River headland connected with the capture of Major John André.

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    In September 1780, John “Jack” Peterson and Sherwood challenged a landing party from HMS Vulture, then alerted the garrison at Fort Lafayette. Cannon fire from Teller’s Point drove the ship away. Without his intended river passage, British officer John André tried to return to New York overland and was captured.

    A Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area research report places Peterson, a man of African and Indigenous ancestry, in this story and records the 1967 memorial to Peterson and Sherwood at Croton Point. The headland connects the river’s geography with the failure of Benedict Arnold’s plot.

  • The Bowery · Dam Workers’ Village

    The former settlement that housed New Croton Dam workers and their families.

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    The dam was built by a workforce that included Italian and Irish immigrants, African Americans, and Scandinavians. Croton Friends of History’s archival account describes the Bowery, also called Little Italy, as a settlement of boardinghouses, stores, saloons, a chapel, and a school near the river.

    Families helped run this temporary community, and some women supported households by taking in boarders. Workers also faced dependence on labor brokers, known as padroni. As the dam project ended, many people moved on, while others became part of Croton’s lasting community. This map marks the general settlement area, rather than a surviving village entrance.

  • The Dummy Light

    Croton’s distinctive pedestal traffic signal at Grand Street and Old Post Road South.

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    Local historian Carl Oechsner’s account places installation around 1926, based on the recollection of a former village public works employee. The light’s central pedestal is a reminder of an earlier approach to directing traffic, when a signal could stand in the intersection itself.

    The brick base also covers an older cistern associated with the village’s water supply. A later control box does not establish who made the original signal. The Dummy Light has survived as both working street infrastructure and a village landmark, with community attachment helping explain its unusual persistence.

  • Treaty Oak Site

    A marker preserving a local tradition about a 1645 peace agreement.

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    The marker, erected in 1960 by the New York State Society Children of the American Revolution, recalls a great oak associated with a peace treaty between Indigenous people and the Dutch. Its inscription explicitly presents the connection to this spot as tradition.

    That distinction matters: the plaque documents how the community commemorated the story, rather than proving an exact seventeenth-century meeting place. Today the site offers a way to consider both Croton Point’s Indigenous past and the later choices made in remembering it.

  • Underhill Wine Cellars

    Brick vaults recalling Croton Point’s nineteenth-century wine industry.

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    The Underhill family’s vineyards and wine cellars were part of a working landscape on Croton Point. The cellars used the hillside as a setting for enclosed storage, leaving an industrial footprint very different from the open lawns and recreation areas of the modern park.

    Archival photographs preserved by the Croton Historical Society show the cellar ruins in the early twentieth century. Croton Friends of History’s postcard collection also connects the remains with the former Underhill property. The map identifies this historical landscape; the ruins are not presented as an open attraction or a place to enter.

  • Veterans Corners

    The Five Corners memorial honoring Croton residents lost in war.

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    Unveiled on July 4, 1947, the monument honors Croton residents lost in the First and Second World Wars. Benches later added names from Korea and Vietnam.

    At Old Post Road South and Cleveland Drive, Veterans Corners remains a setting for the village’s annual Memorial Day service. The memorial has grown with the community’s experience of war.

  • World War I Memorial

    Croton’s original First World War monument near the Municipal Building.

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    Erected in 1921, this monument honored four Croton residents lost in the First World War. Circular reliefs represent the Army, Navy, Red Cross, and the village’s casualties.

    The Village Central Veterans Committee restored it in 2010, adding a plaque with the veterans’ names. The monument at Brook Street and Old Post Road North connects early remembrance with later preservation.

About this data

Community data — what that means

Positions and boundaries from OpenStreetMap and public sources — approximate, not survey data.

© OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Elevation: USGS 3DEP. Trails: OpenStreetMap contributors; Saw Mill River Audubon trail maps. Boundaries: OpenStreetMap contributors, simplified.

An independent community project. Not affiliated with the Village of Croton-on-Hudson or Westchester County.

Legend

What the drawing means
  • PARK canopy wash, oak edge
  • TRAIL oak, solid
  • INFORMAL dashed, thin
  • AQUEDUCT long dash, heavy
  • CLOSED carmine hatch
  • PLACE pictogram pin
  • HISTORIC brick pin
  • AMENITY small dot
  • YOU ringed dot + circle
The rows that need a sentence

PARK — Boundaries are from OpenStreetMap and village sources, simplified — good to about 40 metres, not survey lines.

INFORMAL — A path people use that no agency maintains or marks. It may cross private land or wash out; it is drawn because pretending it is not there helps nobody.

AQUEDUCT — The Old Croton Aqueduct trailway — a state historic park in its own right, drawn in its own ink so it reads as one continuous thing.

YOU — Your position, with a circle showing how accurate the fix is. It never leaves your device.

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Aerial photos: NYS 2025, summer photos where available, with spring 2025 imagery filling coverage gaps. Online imagery, with street labels and parks retained. Parcels: 2026 roll IDs with published county, town and state tax boundaries; approximate, not a survey. Six boundaries remain pending. Condo units and linked assessments can share a site outline.

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