Pound Ridge Today

Located in the northeast section of Westchester County, the municipality of Pound Ridge borders both New York and Connecticut. Pound Ridge is adjacent to the Connecticut towns of New Canaan and Stamford. On the New York side, Pound Ridge borders Bedford and the more rural town of South Salem. Pound Ridge is characterized by a rugged landscape, rock outcroppings and rugged cliffs. "Nowhere in the town's 23 square miles is there even a traffic light."

In many parts of Pound Ridge, the rugged landscape seems to have been only gently altered by humans since the glaciers receded. In contrast to some of its neighbors, the town, Westchester's smallest in population density, has marked its topography over the years not with highways and malls but rather with stone walls and narrow country roads that wind past meandering brooks, stone outcroppings and densely wooded hills. Pound Ridge boasts many large tracts of conserved and undeveloped land. Between the 4,315 acre Ward Pound Ridge Reservation, the efforts of the Westchester Land Trust and the Pound Ridge Land Conservancy combined with sensitive town planning, much of Pound Ridge will remain "forever wild."