Robinson Pond

Robinson Pond is located on Robinson Road and is a great natural resource of our town.  Both swimming area and boat launch are accessible from Robinson Rd. There are areas for parking both at the swimming area and boat launch. Gates will open daily from 8:00 am-8:00 pm starting Memorial Day weekend and will close after the Labor Day weekend. There will be beach monitors on duty during the weekends checking residency to ensure the facility is used by Hudson residents and their guests.

There are picnic tables, barbeque grills and portable toilets in place during summer hours. Buoys will clearly mark the swimming area and will keep boats away from the swimmers. There will be no lifeguards no duty, swimming is at your own risk. Water tests will be accomplished and updated counts will be posted at the swimming area. There is a carry in - carry out policy, please bring a trash bag with you to clean up behind yourself when leaving the area. Also, no dogs are allowed on the beach or in the swimming area.

History

Robinson Pond is thought to have been formed as a kettle hole from the melting of a large ice chunk broken off as the last glacier receded. Now it serves to drain a small 1100-acre watershed and provide a home for beaver, Canadian geese, ducks, turtles, and fish, namely bass and pickerel. The sandy beach and swimming area are thanks to the Hudson Junior Women’s Club’s efforts in 1971. 

This piece of land may have been inhabited by nomadic hunter-gatherers as many as 10,000 years ago. Later European settlers lived here; a fact evidenced by stonewalls, apple trees, and a cellar hole found in the surrounding forests to this property.  Trees knocked down by the 1938 hurricane were preserved by storing them in Robinson Pond. Two years later, two steam powered sawmills were placed on what is now known as sawdust island, and most of the five million board feet of lumber was used to make ammunition boxes during World War II.

Size: 88 acres