Mantle Rock, falls are now closed in Livingston

Nature Conservancy Photo/Mike Wilkerson

The Nature Conservancy has closed all of its preserves. Locally, the conservancy’s order affects Mantle Rock and Joy or Mandy Falls. Both areas are in northern Livingston County near the Joy community.

Social media has flourished recently with photographs of fresh-air seekers looking for outdoors activities to fight the COVID-19 quarantine blahs. Some posts showed sight-seers at Mantle Rock and the falls.

Now, those places are off limits, said a spokesperson for the conservancy.