Riverfront Park, offering scenic vistas, shade, and recreation for people of all ages, is one of the most beautiful parks along the Hudson River. It is home to festivals, concerts, pick-up basketball and tournaments, a children’s playground, sand volleyball, a walking path, picnic tables, fishing sites, and a floating River Pool in the summer months since 2007.

The Beacon community and its many visitors love and enjoy this park created about thirty years ago from landfill barges that were sealed and covered with enough soil for trees and grass. An earth stage provides a natural focus for concerts and other events.

Many mature trees including poplar, willow, locust, maple, ash, oak, mulberry and pine provide beauty and shade and stabilize the soil. Still, the park is losing up to three trees each year due to wind, lightening, ice, snow and disease. Since this is a park rather than a natural area, young trees must be planted to replace those that are being lost.

Because it takes decades for trees to mature we have begun The Tree Project. Since 2008 we have planted four red maples and one white oak and are raising funds to plant more young trees at Riverfront Park that will reflect the diversity of the mature trees. Your contribution will help us continue this project.

To donate towards the tree fund, click Here

Thank you for your support!