Crane Beach
IUCN Category V - Protected Landscape / Seascape
The beach from a distance
Crane Beach (fully Crane Beach on the Crane Estate ) is a beach and also a 1,234 acres (5 km ²) large nature reserve on the former estate of Richard T. Crane, Jr., which also includes the neighboring Castle Hill belonged. It is located in the northeast of the state of Massachusetts in the United States and is managed by the organization The Trustees of Reservations.
History
Richard T. Crane, Jr. acquired in 1910 a plot of land with a total of 800 acres (3.2 km ²) area around the Castle Hill, and thus formed the basis for further acquisitions, which the estate over time to a total size of 2,100 acres (8.5 km ²) extended. The central component is still the 59 rooms' country house at the top of Castle Hill.
After the death of Crane in 1945, the family donated 1,000 acres (4 km ² ), of which the largest part of Crane Beach and the dunes area of Castle Neck, the Trustees of Reservations. Died in 1949 his widow and inherited the organization further 350 acres (1.4 km ²), the country house and the major part of the Castle Hill. In the 1970s, the daughter Miné S. Crane gave the trustees the land on which today the 680 acres (2.8 km ²) comprehensive reserve Crane Wildlife Refuge.
Sanctuary
The beach Crane Beach for many years been one of the most popular leisure attractions on the east coast of the United States, because it has very clean water and several miles of shoreline. The Trustees of Reservations manage the beach and provide seasonal and the life-saving safe. At the same time they emphasize a coordinated coexistence of tourism and environmental claims.
Hiking trails through the dunes that protect the domestic front high waves and floods. On the Castle Neck is the largest pitch pine forest on the North Shore region, and the beach area is one of the world's most important breeding areas of the Yellow-footed plover. These birds were almost extinct in the 19th century due to their eggs and feathers, but the population has since largely recovered. Crane Beach is widely recognized in the United States for his successes in the protection of birds.
Visitors have a total of 5.5 mi ( 8.9 km ) of hiking trails that are part of the Bay Circuit Trail are. Access to the reserve is chargeable.