Caumsett State Park Lloyd Neck
— — the field that runs out to the Sound.
Not only on a wall.
“The bluffs and meadows of Marshall Field's old country estate, on the Lloyd Neck peninsula above Long Island Sound. Field bought roughly 1,750 acres in the 1920s and kept them as working farmland — dairy barns, formal gardens, polo fields, a private beach below the cliff. New York State took the land in 1961 and left most of it alone. The wind off the Sound moves through the grass.
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Caumsett State Historic Park Preserve covers 1,520 acres on Lloyd Neck, a peninsula in the Town of Huntington, Suffolk County, New York. The estate was assembled in 1921 by Marshall Field III, grandson of the Chicago merchant, who wanted a self-sufficient English-style sporting country seat within driving distance of Manhattan. New York State acquired the property in 1961. The name Caumsett comes from the Matinecock word translated as place by a sharp rock. The northern bluffs face Long Island Sound and the Connecticut shore nine miles across the water.
Caumsett sits at the meeting of three coastal habitats — salt marsh at West Neck Harbor, mixed hardwood forest on the interior, and high glacial bluffs above Long Island Sound. The National Audubon Society has identified the preserve as an Important Bird Area; ospreys nest along the marsh, and the bluffs are a fall migration corridor for hawks and falcons. Off the cliff on a clear day the Connecticut shore at Norwalk reads as a low band of grey-green nine miles north across the Sound. The wind comes off the water most afternoons.
The park is open year round, sunrise to sunset, with a New York State Parks vehicle fee in season. The interior carriage roads are closed to cars; visitors walk, run, or cycle the paths laid out by landscape architect Warren H. Manning. The Marshall Field mansion, the dairy complex, and the Henry L. Ferguson Museum gardens are visible from the main path. The closest village is Lloyd Harbor; the Long Island Rail Road station at Huntington is a fifteen-minute drive south. The park hosts cross-country running and equestrian events through the year.