The Turner Brook Reserve
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The Turner Brook Reserve, located in Forestburgh, New York, United States is a unique nature preserve with a very complicated past. In the 1930s Philip Wechsler purchased a lake, Gilman Pond, and more than 5,000 acres (20 km²) of The Neversink Gorge that he named Philwold Estates.[1] The Turner Brook Reserve is controversial, in part, because it is a 40 year old completely undeveloped private park that controls access to the western side of an exotic waterfall, High Falls, in the center of a New York State park. Located on the western bank of the Neversink Gorge the Turner Brook Reserve was established in 1968 by the noted international environmentalist Benjamin Wechsler. [1][2][3] Today the reserve totals more than 1,800 acres (7.3 km²). Its western boundary runs along the Cold Spring Road in Forestburgh, NY, at Philwold, located on Philwold Road,Philwold and its easternmost point is High Falls in The Neversink Gorge. In the early 1970s The Turner Brook Reserve was 4,200 acres (17 km²) and encompassed both sides of the Neversink River for more than 3 miles (4.8 km). It is named after Turner Brook, a stream that runs along the western most part of the reserve and flows into Gilman Pond, the outlet of which is Eden Brook that in turn runs into the Neversink River.
