About
LocationNY
RegionNassau County
Managed byNew York State DEC
SizeMedium — about a day
Acres420 acres

Planting Fields Arboretum State Historic Park, which includes the Main House Historic House Museum, is an arboretum and state park covering over 400 acres located in the village of Upper Brookville in the town of Oyster Bay, New York. Near the end of America's Gilded Age, the estate named Planting Fields was the home of William Robertson Coe, an insurance and railroad executive, and his wife Mary "Mai" Huttleston Coe, the youngest daughter of millionaire industrialist Henry H. Rogers, who had been a principal of Standard Oil. It includes the 67-room Main House, greenhouses, gardens, woodland paths, and outstanding plant collections. Its grounds were designed by Guy Lowell, A. R. Sargent, the Olmsted Brothers, and others. Planting Fields also features an herbarium of over 10,000 pressed specimens. The name "Planting Fields" comes from the Matinecock Indians who cultivated the rich soil in the clearings high above Long Island Sound.

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Trails (4)
  • Big Wash Pass0.2 mi · Easy · 56 ft up · 15 min · from Planting Fields Arboretum State Historic Park
  • East Trail0.3 mi · Easy · 12 ft up · 15 min · from Planting Fields Arboretum State Historic Park
  • Little Wash Trail0.2 mi · Easy · 7 ft up · 15 min · from Planting Fields Arboretum State Historic Park
  • Oak Trail0.4 mi · Easy · Flat · 15 min · from Planting Fields Arboretum State Historic Park

Trail data: USGS National Map / PAD-US, the National Park Service, state agencies, and © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

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