This summer, Untapped Cities is excited to host a series of tours of the scenic ruins of Bannerman Castle, located on Pollepel Island in the Hudson River just off Beacon. Built as a warehouse for a ...

Owned by New York state and maintained by the Bannerman Castle Trust, Bannerman’s Island is quite a sight for anyone riding the train past Beacon. There, on a 6.5-acre rocky island, stand the ruins of ...

Private island, 6.5 acres of complete solitude in the middle of the Hudson River — majestic water and mountain views from your own historic castle, convenient to Midtown via Metro-North, bring your ...

Newly opened to the public, the residence that was once the summer home of Frank Bannerman and his family on Pollepel, or Bannerman Island, is now a visitors center. For the first time, visitors are ...

Even if you're a longtime resident of the Hudson Valley, chances are there are still a few local hot spots that you haven't managed to visit. Take Bannerman Castle. While I was in college, I glimpsed ...

Now everyone can see the inside of the house where the Bannerman family spent its summers a century ago. Well, part of it, anyway. Tuesday’s annual media tour of Bannerman Island in the Hudson River, ...

Editor’s note: This story has been updated. The new version can be seen here. For many of us, staycations are this year’s vacations. Instead of the cottages and castles of the Continent, visit one of ...

Recently, we shared a drone video by the crew Abandoned NY (not to be confused with Abandoned NYC, the website and book by Will Ellis) of North Brother Island. At the time, they told us their next ...

Some day, the group restoring Bannerman Island hopes to rebuild the walls of its crumbling castle. But that would cost an estimated $10 million – money the Bannerman Castle Trust Inc. doesn’t have yet ...

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. — Bannerman Castle, on Pollepel Island, is an iconic Hudson River ruin just off the banks of Garrison, an often photographed sight, with its roof caved in and some of its walls ...