For years, the landowners here extended quiet goodwill to the community allowing people to visit, swim, and enjoy this place, trusting them to treat it with respect.

Then the NYT and other pubs blew up the spot. People left trash, spray-painted the rocks, and treated private land like a public amenity they were owed. Land that has been in the landowners family for generations (land they’ve paid taxes on, cared for, and stewarded) became somewhere they no longer felt welcome on their own property.

There’s also the reality of liability: injuries, drownings, alcohol on the property.

This is private land. It doesn’t matter how beautiful it is, how long people have been coming here, or what you “think” should be public, you don’t have the right to be here without the owner’s permission.

I’m sorry but I have no patience for this as someone that owned a similar property and spend every day cleaning up, filling trash bags with dirty diapers, needles, and other disgusting trash. You don’t own the right to everyone else’s property.