Conservation Easements

Two thirds of all the land we have protected is in conservation easement. An easement is, essentially, a legally binding promise by a landowner to protect most or all of his or her land forever, and a corresponding legal promise by Westchester Land Trust to make sure the owner keeps that promise.

Conservation easements allow public access only if the landowner agrees, and so they are often ideal ways to protect fragile environmental features, such as wetlands and streams that buffer reservoirs, or sensitive wildlife habitats.

Below is a complete list of all our conservation easements. But first here are short accounts of several of our recent easements.

Valeria Easements, Cortlandt

Waletzky Easement, Pocantico Hills

Mancini Easements, Patterson

Kohlberg Easement, Cabbage Hill Farm, Mount Kisco

Gaymark Preserve/North Salem Open Land Foundation Easement, North Salem
 

Please note: There is no public access to the vast majority of our conservation easements.

Conservation Easements
Click on a name to see our easements in that town

Bedford, Cortlandt, Greenburgh, Lewisboro, Mamaroneck, Mount Kisco, Mount Pleasant, New Castle, New Rochelle, North Castle, North Hempstead, North Salem, Ossining, Patterson, Pound Ridge, Rye, Rye Brook, Somers, Yonkers, Yorktown

Bedford

Easement/Donor Acres Road
Asher 5.2 acres Cherry Street
Bady 18.6 acres Mount Holly Road
Bedford Associates/Chestnut Ridge 59.4 acres Chestnut Ridge Road
Bedford Audubon - Palmer Lewis Sanctuary 25.6 acres Route 121
Bedford Audubon - Ramsay Hunt Sanctuary 202.8 acres Todd Road
Bedford Community Church 4 acres Buxton Road
Bedford Waterfront Group LLC/Marks 7.7 acres Old Cross River Road
Bolen  8.3 acres  Hook Road
Cohen 18.5 acres 888 Old Post Road
Coker Farm 103.4 acres Stone Hill Road
Coster 5 .1 acres Clinton Road
Courtyard Farm - Carollo 31 acres Bedford Center Road
Crier I 13.5 acres Hook Road
Crier II 13.5 acres Hook Road
Crier III 16.9 acres Hook Road
Falise 17.2 acres Pound Ridge Road
Foote 4.1 acres David's Way
Foster 13 acres Guard Hill Road
Friedman 19.7 acres Narrows Road
Gelwicks 10 acres Brook Road
Grasso 2.8 acres Succabone Road
Hansen 4.2 acres Pines Bridge Road
Harckham 4.94 acres Mount Holly Road
Hauspurg 26.3 acres Croton Lake Road
Herguth 2 acres Baldwin Road
Hodes 17.6 acres Girdle Ridge Road
I.M. Pei Trust 1.7 acres Mount Holly Road
Jones I, II, III 12 acres Brook Road
Kernan 4.6 acres McLain Street
Kowitz 14.4 acres Wood Road
Kowitz Devine 5.7 acres  
Leatherman's Ridge 33.95 acres North Haines Road
LeBrun 4.6 acres Brook Road
Louis-Dreyfus 80.3 acres Croton Lake Road
Madden 10.94 acres Wood Street
Mancini - Tanrackin 47.6 acres Guard Hill Road
Mancini - Guard Hill 11.6 acres Guard Hill Road
Mancini - Rona Farm 17.8 acres Guard Hill Road
Mianus Overlook 10 acres Mianus Bluff Drive
Montgomery/Beaver Dam 70.9 acres Beaver Dam Road
Pasqualini 3 acres Meetinghouse Road
Palmer-Lewis/Bedford Audubon 26 acres Route 121
Pasqualini 3 acres Meetinghouse Road
Pennoyer 17.8 acres Holly Branch Road
Proctor 4 acres  
Ravel 26.1 acres Guard Hill Road
Rawlings 25.2 acres Maple Avenue
Raymond 38 acres Guard Hill Road
Rose - (Swallow Lake) 14.6 acres Old Corner Road
Serkin 5.5 acres The Narrows Road
Simpson 6 acres Katonah's Wood Road
Simpson Trail 0.9 acre Katonah's Wood Road
Smith 4  acres Guard Hill Road
Spencer 16.447 acres Harris Road
Stockbridge 18.8 acres Sarles Street
Swallow Lake 4 acres Pine Brook Road
Swallow Lake 6.3 acres Pine Brook Road
Swallow Lake 6.5 acres Pine Brook Road
Swallow Lake 6 acres Pine Brook Road
Swallow Lake 4 acres Old Corner Road
Swallow Lake 4 acres Pine Brook Road
Swallow Lake 4 acres Old Corner Road
Swallow Lake 5 acres Old Corner Road
Swallow Lake 5 acres Old Corner Road
Tanrackin Farm 63.7 acres Guard Hill Road
Twin Lakes 33.9 acres Twin Lakes Drive
Wilkie Mount Holly Trail 0.28 acres Mount Holly Road
Wood I 19.405 acres Croton Lake Road
Wood II 10.65 acres Croton Lake Road
Wood - Wood 1.82 acres Wood Road

Total: 68 easements, 1326.4

acres

Cortlandt

Easement/Donor Acres Road
Angell 40.1 acres S. Mountain Pass
Kassas 1.5 acres Buttonwood Road
Perl 1.5 acres Finney Farm Road
Todd-Young 5.2 acres Pond Meadow Road
Valeria Parcels A, B, C & D 655.3 acres Furnance Dock Road
Washington Street - Gable 6.9 acres Washington Avenue
Washington Trails - Town of Cortlant 46.8 acres Washington Avenue

Total: 7 easements, 757.3 acres

Greenburgh

Easement/Donor Acres Road
Burkhardt 0.5 acres Taxter Road
Randall 10.3 acres Fargo Lane
Yablon Irvington 12 acres Along Hudson River

Total: 3 easements, 22.8 acres

Lewisboro

Easement/Donor Acres Road
Bach 2.8 acres Cross Pond Road
Byrne 6.46 acres Grandview Road
DiGuglielmo 22.1 acres North Salem Road
Ferris 15 acres Todd Road
Gersten 12.882 acres Todd Road
Hennessy 2 acres Stone Hill Road
Hubsher-Leitner 2 acres Route 35
Lake Kitchawan Association 0.5 acres Lake Kitchawan Drive
Leon Levy Preserve/Town of Lewisboro 293 acres Routes 35 and 123
McCagg 12.3 acres Todd Road
Mendicino 4.9 acres Road's End Road
Nature Conservancy/Milstein 23.5 acres Old Church Lane
Nordgren 8.95 acres Bouton Road
Old Church Lane 30.8 acres Beaver Pond Lane
Old Field Preserve 111.9 acres Mead Street
Stevens 3.6 acres Mead Street
Walker Preserve 25.4 acres Main Street
Wild Oaks Preserve 6 acres Fairmont Road

Total: 18 easements, 661.122 acres

Mamaroneck

Easement/Donor Acres Road
Giffen 6.8 acres Old White Plains Road
Martin 1.2 acres Greacen Point Road

Total: 2 easements, 8 acres

Mount Kisco

Easement/Donor Acres Road
Woodcrest at Leonard Park 8 acres S. Bedford Road

Total: 1 easement, 8 acres

Mount Pleasant

Easement/Donor Acres Road
Douglas Hill - Rockefeller A & B 56.4 acres Sleepy Hollow Road
Dulany 32.5 acres Bedford Road
Pocantico Village Green 1.1 acres Pocantico Green/Bedford Road
Waletzky 24.6 acres Bedford Road

Total: 5 easements, 114.6 acres

New Castle

Easement/Donor Acres Road
Hill 4 acres Ivy Hill Road
Johnson 4.5 acres Westwood Drive
Neubauer 1.2 acres Old Roaring Brook Rd.
Yablon 2 acres West Way

Total: 4 easements, 54.7 acres

New Rochelle

Easement/Donor Acres Road
Darley 2.1 acres Wilmot Road
Davenport Bird Sanctuary 2.4 acres Davenport Avenue
Wykagyl 3.6 acres Oxford Road

Total: 3 easements, 8.1acres

North Castle

Easement/Donor Acres Road
Byram Lake Preserve 29.91 Baldwin Road
MBIA/NRDC/Riverkeeper 7.2 acres King Street
Stone Manors 2.3 acres Bedford-Banksville Rd.
Wolfe 13.5 acres Hickory Kingdom Rd.

Total: 4 easements, 52.9 acres

North Hempstead (Nassau County)

Easement/Donor Acres Road
Lewyt 19 acres Cornwells Beach Road

Total: 1 easement, 19 acres

North Salem

Easement/Donor Acres Road
Baxter Road LLC 52.2 acres  Baxter Road
Bedford Audubon - Franklin Fels Preserve 208.7 acres Titicus Road
Brae Land Corp. 29.6 acres Nash Road
Finch Farm 45.4 acres Finch Road
Gaymark Preserve 58.5 acres  
North Salem Open Land Foundation -Graff Preserve 11 acres Baxter Road
Kamenstein I 8.8 acres Vail Lane
Kamenstein III 16.353 acres Finch Road
 Keeler Preserve 3 7.6 acres Keeler Lane
 LP Partners  129.2 acres Vail Lane
Schlosstein 43.2 acres Turkey Hill Road
Wiederhorn 4.035 acres Vail Lane
Wiederhorn 9.578 acres Vail Lane

Total: 13 easements, 654.2 acres

Ossining

Easement/Donor Acres Road
Kilman 4.3acres Tower Hill Road
Martin - Briarcliff 5.3 acres Quinn Road
Maryknoll - New Castle/Ossining 43 acres Pinesbridge Road
Overton Ossining Tree 1.1 acres Overton Road
Rinaldo 1 acre Scarborough Road

Total: 5 easements, 54.6 acres

Patterson (Putnam County)

Easement/Donor Acres Road
Mancini/Burdick Farm 168.3 acres Bullet Hole Road
Mancini/Jensen Farm 104 acres Bullet Hole Road
Putnam County Land Trust 105.1 acres Route 167

Total: 3 easements, 377.4 acres

Pound Ridge

Easement/Donor

Acres Road
Armstrong Preserve 45.5 acres Old Post Road
Arnow 3.5 acres Fancher Road
Brown 4.1 acres Trinity Pass
Burke 9 .4 acres Old Stone Hill Road
Pound Ridge Land Conservancy-Bye Preserve 23.6 acres High Ridge Road
Pound Ridge Land Conservancy -Carolins Grove 4.6 acres Stone Hill Road
Clark Preserve 76 acres Deerfield Road
De La Torre Preserve 3.2 acres Hack Green Road
Eastwoods Preserve 49.5 acres Eastwoods Road
Edelstein 4 acres Hack Green Road
Pound Ridge Land Conservancy-Fancher Meadow Preserve 2 acres Fancher Road
Fertig 4.3 acres S. Bedford Road
Frasch 7.6 acres Eastwoods Road
Goldfein Preserve 2.8 acres Trinity Pass
Pound Ridge Land Conservancy-Halle Ravine Preserve 38.2 acres Trinity Pass
Isaacson Preserve 32 acres Donbrook Road
London 2.6 acres Pound Ridge Road
Needell 5.4 acres Stone Hill Road
Peterson 28.7 acres Stone Hill Road
Pound Ridge Land Conservancy - Kensho Turst 8.5 acres Stone Hill Road
Pound Ridge Land Conservancy -Russell Preserve 9.1 acres High Ridge Road
Pound Ridge Land Conservancy -Schwartz Preserve 7.9 acres Cross Pond Road
Snyder 60.8 acres Boutonville Road
Pound Ridge Land Conservancy -Thalheim Preserve 47.4 acres Kitchawan Road
Walker 4.2 acres Stone Hill Road
Westchester Wilderness Walk Shimkin 28.4 acres Mallard Lake Road
Pound Ridge Land Conservancy -Whitehead Preserve 29.1 acres Salem Road
Wolff 4.4 acres Salem Road

Total: 28 easements, 547acres

Rye

Easement/Donor Acres Road
Drake Smith Land 1 acre Drake Smith Lane

Total: 1 easement 1 acre

Rye Brook

Easement/Donor Acres Road
Heller 2.5 acres Lincoln Ave.

Total: 1 easements, 2.5 acres

Somers

Easement/Donor Acres Road
Doyle 12.1 acres Mekeel Street
Ensigner/Kuebler 17.9 acres Orchard Hill Road
Manor Ridge 12 acres Young Road
Munson 0.6 acres Woodland Drive
Somers Estates 19.3 acres Lovell Street
Windsor Farms 80.8 acres Route 6

Total: 6 easements, 142.7 acres

Yonkers

Easement/Donor Acres Road
Scherer 0.25 acres 11 Spring Road

Total: 1 easement, 0.3 acres

Yorktown

Easement/Donor Acres Road
Cappelli 40 acres Barger Street
Kohlberg/Cabbage Hill 70.3 acres Crow Hill Road
Manocherian 21.7 acres Pinesbridge Road

Total: 3 easements, 132 acres

Total: 176 easements, 4,926 acres