Mansions – Palisades Interstate Park

Gray Crag

By PIPC Staff | June 15, 2010 |

Traces still survive of showman John Ringling’s summer estate on the Palisades at Alpine.

By PIPC Staff | November 15, 2009 |

Socialites Hamilton and Florence Twombly donated land for a special picnic grove beneath the Palisades.

By PIPC Staff | December 15, 2007 |

Though it was razed in 1939, hikers still come upon the impressive ruins of George Zabriskie’s summer estate on top of the Palisades in Alpine.

By PIPC Staff | March 15, 2001 |

In the 1920s, Cora Timken and John Burnett built a secluded estate atop the Palisades in Alpine.

By PIPC Staff | March 15, 2000 |

Our Park Headquarters was once“Penlyn,” the home of Henry Herbert Oltman and his family.