Where: Butler-Huntington Woods Nature Conservancy, Fifty-acre Road, St. James (map)

Description: BUTLER HUNTINGTON WOODS NATURE CONSERVANCY  

Fifty-acre Road, St. James, NY 

The wooded hills and ravines of Butler-Huntington Woods are part of the Harbor Hill moraine, the hilly ridge that marks the place where the ice sheets paused, depositing pulverized materials. The swales between the high ridges cut a natural trail system several miles long through the woodlands. The watershed formed by the glacier-scoured hills and swales once fed water to Mill Creek, which powered a gristmill and flowed on to the Nissequogue River. In 1961, brothers William R. Huntington and the Reverend Christopher Huntington donated the land to the Nature Conservancy.  

** REGISTRATION FOR BUTLER-HUNTINGTON PRESERVE WALK IS NOW CLOSED **

For those who have registered, please note:  

 As there is very limited parking at the preserve, and no parking is permitted on Head of the Harbor roads, we will be meeting at the Head of the Harbor Village Hall municipal parking lot at 500 NY-25A, St James, NY 11780, at the intersection of Moriches Road and North Country Road, and will be car pooling to the preserve.  Please meet at the lot at least 15 minutes early (8:45 a.m.).  

Leader:  John Turner                               

Email: fourharborsheron@gmail.com to register 

Parking: 40°52'59.4"N 73°10'25.3”W