Conservation Options
Several ways to permanently protect your Cragsmoor property — each with tax benefits and continued use.
Your Options
Permanent restriction preventing development. You retain full ownership.
Donate your property for a full fair-market-value tax deduction.
Donate now while keeping the right to live on your land for life.
Include the Land Trust in your will. No immediate cost.
Lands We Protect
55 total acres of forests and wildlife habitat — 9 acres owned and 46 acres under conservation easement across four properties in Cragsmoor.
Conservation Easement
In the summer of 2011, Ernie and Lucy Muller donated a conservation easement on an undeveloped, pristine 37-acre tract of land on the southern edge of the Shawangunk Mountain hamlet of Cragsmoor.
Ernie had purchased the property more than 50 years prior to the donation — a half-century of personal stewardship before permanently protecting the land for future generations.
Conservation Easement
Brian Zeger and Ben Moore donated a conservation easement on approximately 10 acres of their property above South Gully Road abutting the State Park.
This easement helps extend the protected corridor connecting Cragsmoor's private conservation lands with the adjacent state parkland, strengthening habitat connectivity along the Shawangunk Ridge.
Owned Land
Eleanor Brown transferred three parcels at the intersections of Henry, Otis and Schuyler Roads totaling 3.6 acres.
One parcel contains the remains of the Peter Brown Farmhouse, the subject of an archaeological survey sponsored by the Land Trust — uncovering newly discovered information about Cragsmoor's history and its arts colony.
Owned Land
Byron and Judith Hollinshead donated a parcel that extends from Otis Road to Dellenbaugh Road and has a beautiful foot path running through it.
This parcel provides public access to one of Cragsmoor's most scenic walking paths, connecting two historic roads through protected forest land.
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