Innisfree Garden
A lakeside garden inspired by Chinese landscape painting and the Chinese garden technique of “borrowed scenery,” named one of the most beautiful gardens in the world.
Walter and Marion Beck created this garden in line with the Tang dynasty painter-poet Wang Wei’s Wangchuan Villa and the “cup garden” concept of Chinese gardens. Landscape architect Lester Collins spent half a century refining it. The roughly 75-hectare garden encircles a lake, and stone, water and trees form a series of “landscapes within a cup” that unfold step by step, in a quiet and simple style. Admission is about US$10. It is open from Wednesday to Sunday from May to October, and weekend visits require advance online booking. The garden is in Millbrook, about 25 km from Poughkeepsie.
Opening hours
May–Oct, Wed–Sun 10:00 am–5:00 pm
Nearby sights
- Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site (Val-Kill)
- Culinary Institute of America
- Home of FDR National Historic Site & Presidential Library
- Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site
- Walkway Over the Hudson
- Locust Grove Estate
- Staatsburgh State Historic Site
- Rhinebeck