Hiking Long Island Table of Contents

Acknowledgement 2

Part One: Introduction
Advice to Hikers 3

• Preparations and Planning 4
• Clothing 5
• Equipment 6
• Food 9
• Safety Tips 10

Natural Long Island: Geology, Flora and Fauna

• Geology 17
• Flora 18
• Fauna 21

A Brief Long Island History 28
Preservation of Open Space and Hiking Trails 35
Climate, Weather and a Trip Through the Seasons 36

Part Two: The Trails

Nassau County and Western Suffolk County

• Nassau-Suffolk Greenbelt Trail 41
• Stillwell Woods Preserve 53
• Welwyn Preserve 56
• Muttontown Preserve 58
• Wantagh Nature Trail 61
• Other Small Parks and Preserves in Nassau County 65
• Walt Whitman Trail 66
• Caumsett State Park 73
• Target Rock National Wildlife Refuge 71
• Gardiner County Park 77
• Edgewood Oak Brush Plains Preserve 79
• Long Island Greenbelt Trail 83
• Stump Pond Loop Trail 102
• Connetquot River State Park Preserve 106
• Fire Island National Seashore 110

The Pine Barrens and Central-Eastern Suffolk County

• The Pine Barrens 115
• Pine Barrens Information Center and Wampmissick Trail 120
• Paumanok Path: Pine Barrens Trail Section 123
• Rocky Point Natural Resources Management Area 154
• Cathedral Pines County Park and Prosser Pines Preserve 162
• Warbler Woods 166
• Randall Pond Preserve 169
• Wertheim National Wildlife Refuge 172
• Southaven County Park 176
• William Floyd Estate 179
• Brookhaven State Park and the Brookhaven Trail 182
• Robert Cushman Murphy County Park and the Coastal Plain Ponds 184
• Navy Co-op Pond Walk 195
• Wildwood State Park 198
• Terrell County Park 201
• Otis Pike Preserve 204
• Manorville Hills 207
• The Summit and Hampton Hills 213
• Dwarf Pines and The Westhampton Burn Area 220
• David A. Sarnoff Pine Barrens Preserve 223
• Peconic River County Park 232
• Cranberry Bog County Nature Preserve 234
• Sears-Bellows County Park 238
• Hubbard County Park 240
• Red Creek Trails 244
• Quogue Wildlife Refuge 246

The Twin Forks

• Paumanok Path in Southampton 248
• Laurel Valley County Park 254
• Laurel Valley County Park to Long Pond Greenbelt 257
• Morton National Wildlife Refuge 263
• Long Pond Greenbelt 267
• Paumanok Path: Sagaponack Woods and Miller's Ground 272
• Barcelona Neck 276
• Northwest Path 282
• Cedar Point County Park 289
• Paumanok Path: The Grace Estate to Stony Hill 292
• Paumanok Path: Amagansett Woods and Napeague State Park 299
• Hither Hills State Park and Hither Woods Preserve 306
• Walking Dunes 315
• Theodore Roosevelt County Park 318
• Point Woods Loop 323
• Mashomack Preserve 329
• Orient Beach State Park 335
• Other Parks and Preserves in Suffolk County 339

Appendix

• Mass Tranportation 341
• Campsites 341
• Hiking and Outdoor Clubs 343
• Government Offices 344
• Useful Publications 345
• Index 349

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