Where is Poets' Walk Park located?

Poet’s Walk Park is a beautiful garden area that is located between a country road and the Hudson River in Red Hook, New York. Poet's Walk Trail is a 2.2 mile moderately trafficked loop trail located in Hudson Valley. It dates back to 1849 when Hans Jacob Ehlers the architect decided to design the park to reflect the Romantic period.

The land that houses Poets’ Walk can be traced back to 1688 when it was given to Colonel Peter Schuyler of Albany in a land grant (Poets' Walk Park). The land was owned by many people and ended up with two prominent American families, the Astors and the Delanos.

Since 1993, the park has been owned by The Scenic Hudson which has conserved the park’s beauty. Ehlers followed designer Andrew Jackson Downing’s ideas. The gardens have allowed for natural landscapes, some irregularity, informality, and a variety of plant species. The garden’s purpose is to celebrate the connections between art and nature.

The design of the park by Ehlers was made to honor poets Washington Irving and Fitz-Green Halleck. Poet’s walk is considered to be a romantic landscape, intended to celebrate the connection between landscape and poetry. Poet’s Walk is 120 acres of gentle hills, creeks, woodlands, and river views that are hard to find today. Classic wooden vistas, sunlit fields and thick forest were main landscape items that Hans Jacob Ehlers wanted the property to included.