Massachusetts - Crane Beach

Wanting a place to hike with no snow or mud, we chose to go to Crane Beach in Ipswich MA.

Twenty-two years ago we walked this beach on a windy day in April.

Barbara April 1993

Barbara April 2015

Not as windy this time.

We ate our lunch on the boardwalk.

We've gone to Crane Beach many times, but were interested to learn about the adjacent land managed by the same land conservation group.  Here is a little video about the Crane Estate at Castle Hill: Crane Estate video.

The thing that probably surprised us the most was how Richard T Crane Jr built an Italian Renaissance-style villa, but his wife didn't like it.  He told her to give it ten years and if she still didn't like it he'd tear it down and build a different mansion.  And that's what happened.