Poet's Seat Tower — Attraction in Greenfield

The Town of Greenfield celebrates the 4th of July every year here. The fields line with Yummy food vendors, live musical entertainment, the Clam Shack, and gets larger every year. Sometimes they have train rides for the kids, bungee jumping and rock climbing walls. No fees for parking. Just park in the Beacon Field/Baystate Franklin Medical Center neighborhoods and follow the crowds. We generally get there about 6, find a spot to lay our blanket out, take a walk around to try out all the comfort foods, meet up with old friends, have dinner and relax until the fireworks begin. The pyrotechnics are set up on Poet Seat Tower and give you an amazing show year after year. A solid 30 or so minutes of breath taking entertainment follows. The Town of Greenfield's Recreation Department raises funds each year to hold thus event, so all donations are welcomed to continue this annual tradition. Come on out, and celebrate the Birth of America!

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Poets Seat Tower 1912 replaced a wooden tower of 1873 in Greenfield hill top.Poet Frederick Goddard Tuckermann 1821- 1873 appreciated by Emerson and Tennyson.We went in winter day of Nov24 2023 3 pm when it was sunny 7°C but first snow lining the drive and chilled winds blew on our faces . The Great facade in stone was erected by proud Citizens of Greenfield replacing wooden tower built after? His death .Nature at its best with great oaks blue pine mapple cedar Elms trees all around. Great bird eye view of Connecticut River valley and beautiful Greenfield town. Seats benches reveal how much some value the bliss of solitude that the poet like him and Frost imbibed to create ever green poetry in English .Pained to see gennext making spray paint graffiti not only on its exterior but on all floors. Drive up by one road exit from the other...

Beautiful place to visit for sight seeing, eating breakfast-dinner and relaxing. The main reason I didn't give 5 star and only 4 is due to safety concerns. When pulling up to the parking area right side of the tower facing the ball field, there is a railing. Right to the railing there is an open UNFENCED portion. Not far past that open portion is what appears to be a stable rock cliff. From my drones perspective that area NEEDS to be fenced off with warning-danger signs posted. The top is broken pieces of slippery rock and right past that just a few feet is about a 100 plus foot drop. I only see death if someone falls especially a young child who can at a moments notice pull away and run into unknown danger. Please...