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Today I’m organizing my book shelf, continuing to work on my lines for the movie #amityvilketurkeyday (filming in #longislandny next week!) & dancing my buns off at @xcessevansville from 9pm until 3am! This may be your very last chance to see me off before I move to #austintexas for 2 months to study comedy! I won’t be back & able to work in town again until after May, most likely as I have a movie shoot & huge content shoot as soon as I return! So come on down to #xcessevansville tonight! I may or may not dance again tomorrow. Depends on the direction of the wind… 🌬️ 📸: @originalindyboudoir Lingerie: @sheinofficial Thigh highs: (as always) @kixiesthighhighs Hair: 18in wavy in “Beach Blonde” (toned by me!) by @bellakurls (Use code *JESSA* for a discount on your order for textured clip/in extensions!) And as always, you can see me anytime here: http://JessaDoesItAll.com https://www.instagram.com/p/CpVkp39uDLH/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[cathikesny]

MUTTONTOWN PRESERVE - LONG ISLAND

Should we talk about a place that I HATE and will not return to ever again?

I bet you weren’t expecting that, were you?

Would you also be surprised that it is a place that allegedly has buried treasure from a King of Albania?

💰: FREE (aren't the worst things in life always free?)

⏰: 9:30am to 4:30pm, 365 days 

🌎: 34 Muttontown Lane, East Norwich, LI (Chelsea Mansion)

♿️: not really? The grounds around Chelsea Mansion are manageable but don’t go to Muttontown Preserve

🏃‍♀️: it’s 550 acres and a maze, but sure! call it beginner if you want.

🐶: No pets, but I’ve also seen people walking their dogs and maybe you need an animal to guide you out of this hellhole

🚗: park by Chelsea Mansion, if you read nothing else, just PARK BY CHELSEA MANSION

📸: high Instagramability by Chelsea Mansion

📍: ancestral land of the Matinecock chieftancy

Okay, TECHNICALLY, I DID return very briefly a few weeks ago BUT that was only to get pictures of WHERE NOT TO GO. And I did not step foot out of the parking lot. This place gave me PTSD.

Why create what will essentially equate to a “shitpost”, you may ask?

Why not just NOT include it? 

Because people should be WARNED. 

I looked at the google reviews recently and finally found out I was not alone. For years this place has haunted me.

How did my friend, @himynameisnotjoby and I get SO lost?

We literally had a paper map PROVIDED BY THE PRESERVE and we STILL got the kind of lost where we started to get legit worried and it was getting dark and we were only getting MORE lost. The kind of lost that involved scaling fences and bushwhacking and eventually listening for the sounds of cars and just following that and hoping it led us towards one of the main roads, which by the way IS how we got ourselves UN-lost eventually. 

Muttontown Preserve deserves a post because it is a DANGER to Long Islanders. 

The amount of reviews on Google that mention just how deeply lost people have gotten over the years was staggering, and also validating for Joby and I. One person even mentioned that you shouldn’t go there without a literal compass because THAT is how big the potential for getting hopelessly disoriented in this hellscape masquerading as a “Preserve” is. 

According to the Nassau County website, Muttontown Preserve is 550! ACRES, making it the largest nature preserve on Long Island. 

Those aren’t facts, THOSE ARE WARNINGS! 

The same website also claims that “The preserve includes miles of marked nature trails with local wildflowers, trees, birds…” blah blah blah. MARKED TRAILS, MY ASS.

Allegedly, the trail markings HAVE been improved in very recent years, but I refuse to go back and see if that’s true for myself so if you decide to go, you are doing so of your own volition. 

There are four things that lure people to the Muttontown Preserve (of Lost Souls): 

equestrian trails

“safe” hiking for normal people WHO JUST WANTED TO ENJOY A NICE WALK AT A NEW PARK

Chelsea Mansion 

The hidden treasures of the last King of Albanian

So, where does one start? 

I guess, do you have a horse? No? Then don't come here!

I honestly think this place would’ve been less scary if at least I had been on a horse because also when you get lost for AS LONG as Joby and I did that ill-fated day, you start to get tired, which is also scary. My legs were TORN UP from bugs and thorny bushes. A horse would’ve, in theory, solved that. But we didn't have horses and unless you have one though, don’t come here. And even if you do... don't come here.

PARKING SITUATION (THIS IS IMPORTANT):

The problem for Joby and I that harrowing day, I think, was that I learned about Muttontown Preserve because I drove past it randomly (probably on the way back from a different park in the area) and drove past the Equestrian Parking entrance off of Jericho Oyster Bay Road/Route 106 and thought that was the only parking area. 

DO NOT PARK AT THE EQUESTRIAN PARKING AREA OFF OF JERICHO OYSTER BAY ROAD/ROUTE 106! I DO NOT CARE THAT IT IS THE CLOSER PARKING AREA TO THE OLD KNOLLWOOD ESTATE AND KING ZOG’S TREASURE. YOU ARE NOT GOING TO FIND THE TREASURE ANYWAY, YOU WILL PROBABLY NEVER FIND YOUR WAY OUT OF THE PRESERVE IF YOU GO IN SEARCH OF IT. AGAIN, I WILL NOT BLAMED ON NEWS 12 FOR YOUR DISAPPEARANCE. 

I’ll get back to King Zog and the alleged buried treasures and the burned down remains of Knollwood Estate in the next post. 

IF YOU INSIST ON COMING TO THIS CURSED PLACE, here is my advice: SKIP MUTTONTOWN PRESERVE ALTOGETHER. 

Okay, here is my ACTUAL ADVICE: drive up to Jericho Turnpike/Route 25A and park either at the parking lot next to Chelsea Mansion or you can find the entrance around the corner from the parking lot by Chelsea Mansion and park there because that is a trailhead that is usually supplied with maps.

If you want to hear about Chelsea Mansion and King Zog I of Albania's buried treasures, watch this space for a Chelsea Mansion post coming later this week.

and also, let me just reiterate, Muttontown Preserve makes my “RUN AWAY FROM” list. You have been thoroughly warned. 

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[sugar-hips-ramblings]

Long Island, NY

Indulging in the vibrant energy and picturesque landscapes of Long Island, NY.

[ukeyong]

Long Island, NY

Exploring the hidden gems of Long Island, NY - a perfect blend of coastal charm and urban flair.

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Long Island, NY Exploring the hidden gems of Long Island, NY - a perfect blend of coastal charm and urban flair.

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[cathikesny]

OLD WESTBURY GARDENS

If you’re asking me, Old Westbury Gardens is probably one of the “Big Long Island Three”, the other two being Planting Fields Arboretum and Vanderbilt. “The Big Long Island Three” being old “Gatsby” estates that have been turned into gardens or preserves that like EVERYONE knows about and has been to at least once. 

💰 : winter rates are $8/adult, FREE if you reserve through the Long Island library museum pass program

⏰ : hours (and I think fees) vary by season, check the wesbite

🌎 : 71 Old Westbury Road, Old Westbury, Long Island

♿️ : honestly, the website claims to be technically handicapped accessible, but it's really not - they could do better

🏃‍♀️ : beginner, this place is meant for a casual stroll

🐶 : service animals only, no pets

🚗 : ample parking on site

📸 : HIGH Instagramability

📍: ancestral land of the Matinecock peoples.

Ironically though, I’ve actually only been to Old Westbury Gardens ONCE. Listen, I am a student right now and those tickets are just too expensive for my taste (although you can reserve them and get in for FREEEEE through your local library if you live on LI). I don’t understand how OWG doesn’t qualify as a botanical garden like NYBG or Brooklyn Botanical. Why is it just a regular “garden”? It’s legit just as impressive and beautiful and manicured as the big botanical gardens in the area, in my opinion. But, as per usual, I digress…

Old Westbury Gardens has been featured in so many tv shows and movies and was what Baz Luhrman used as inspiration for his ridiculous adaptation of The Great Gatsby with Leo DiCaprio (can we tell I hated that movie?). It’s truly a gorgeous and impeccably well-preserved early 1900s era Gold Coast mansion and the grounds are this bizarre garden oasis in an otherwise very busy section of Long Island suburbia.

HISTORY:

The estate was owned by the Phipps family, who gained their wealth through their association with Andrew Carnegie (of Carnegie Hall) and the Carnegie Steel Company, and upon research, it actually looks like the Phipps who built the mansion, also sponsored Amelia Earhart’s ill-fated flight across the Atlantic, which I thought was interesting and random enough to include. Anyway.. The Phipps family moved in and lived there as early as 1906 but the estate was converted into a museum and gardens in the 1950s and has served that purpose ever since.

The house and grounds have been used for movies like Hitch, Cruel Intentions, American Gangster and shows like Gossip Girl. It’s been used so thoroughly because every nook and cranny of Old Westbury Gardens is meticulously designed and planned and gorgeous. Even the entrance through the MASSIVE iron gates and the thin, tree-lined driveway demands drama, demands your attention and then you pull through and see the mansion from the distance and you can’t help but be genuinely awed. 

TRAIL RECOMMENDATION:

I DO and I DON'T have a specific trail recommendation. As this will NOT be the only post about OWG, the sort-of-recommendation is forthcoming in the next post, so watch this space!

I don't really have a specific recommendation because you should just attempt to experience every inch of this place. The walled gardens were really stunning. I would like to go back when the lilacs are really in season because I think that would be pretty spectacular but they make sure there is something pretty much year round, even in the winter, when they do light displays.

If I were made of money, or library reservations for free tickets, I would go legitimately every couple of weeks between March and September because there is that much to see and that much is often in bloom between the GIGANTIC rhododendron bushes in the front of the mansion to the rose garden in the back, something is always blooming and beautiful. 

I wish Old Westbury Gardens wasn’t so expensive (or I wasn't so poor.. lol). You can tell why it is though because of how well it is maintained. I highly recommend taking advantage of the free tickets through Long Island libraries if you live locally, and I recommend going at least once in general regardless of the price. It's worth it.

This, despite the admissions fee, makes my “Run, Don’t Walk” list because it’s truly a magnificent experience. 

P.S. Something unusual but occasional...

NEARBY FOOD RECOMMENDATIONS:

I’d also like to give a quick shout out to two of my favorite area restaurants if you’re looking for some food to eat after your long walk through the gardens.

Hildebrandt’s in Williston Park, just a few miles west; it’s an old ice cream shoppe from the 1920s that has remained in business by sheer will of force and local love and also because it has the greatest French onion soup and ice cream you’ll ever have in your entire life. I'd bet my life on it.

Spuntino in Westbury, near Roosevelt Field Mall, which is like a little Italian tapas and wine bar. They have great happy hour deals at the bar and literally the most incredible pepperoni personal pizza (picante) you’ve ever had.

These are OBVIOUSLY not sponsored posts, I just really love both restaurants and who doesn’t like a good food recommendation?

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Historic Stony Brook Village With its charming colonial New England setting, ...

Historic Stony Brook Village With its charming colonial New England setting, …

Historic Stony Brook Village 🌾 🪨 With its charming colonial New England setting, Stony Brook Village Center exists as the window to the past and a door to the future of lifestyle communities, and when visiting you must check out the cottages at the @threevillageinn. 🪨 The Three Village Inn is a historic establishment that offers lodging both at the main house and in cottages, as well as a 250…

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