Short Nature Walks Long Island

This guide features 52 walks on Long Island. Each walk includes an easy-to-follow map and directions for locating and following the trails.

Rodney and Priscilla Albright do their daily walks from different locations throughout the year: the Bay of Fundy; the White Mountains; and Florida or the Southwest. Robert L. Wendt has been an active walker and outdoorsman in the New York area for many years. Active in the Appalachian Mountain Club and in mapping Long Island trails, he brings broad experience in the field to the revision of this book. He lives in Woodbury, New York.

(1) Introduction (2) Robert Moses State Park (3) Sailors Haven and Sunken Forest (4) Smith Point (5) Quogue and Tiana Beaches (6) Southampton Beach (7) Wainscott Beach (8) East Hampton Beach (9) Amagansett Beach (10) Napeague Beach (11) Montauk Beach (12) Douglas Manor (13) Sea Cliff (14) Old Bethpage Village Restoration (15) Stony Brook (16) Sag Harbor (17) Orient (18) Garvies Point Preserve and Museum (19) Muttontown Preserve (20) Uplands Farm Sanctuary (21) Target Rock National Wildlife Refuge (22) Caleb Smith State Park Preserve (23) Connetquot River State Park Preserve (24) Three Parks with Views (25) Wertheim National Wildlife Refuge (26) Sears-Bellows County Park (27) Mashomack Preserve (28) Hither Hills State Park (29) U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (30) Sands Point Preserve (31) Nassau County Museum of Art (32) Old Westbury Gardens (33) Planting Fields Arboretum (34) Caumsett State Park (35) Blydenburgh County Park (36) Bayard Cutting Arboretum and Heckscher State Park (37) Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge (38) John F. Kennedy Memorial Wildlife Sanctuary (39) Tackapausha Preserve (40) Massapequa Preserve (41) Shu Swamp Sanctuary (42) South Shore Nature Center (43) Peconic River (44) Cranberry Bog (45) Quogue Wildlife Refuge (46) Elizabeth A. Morton National Wildlife Refuge (47) Cedar Point County Park (48) Orient Beach State Park (49) Montauk Point Parks (50) Sunken Meadow State Park (51) Nissequogue Estuary (52) Wildwood State Park (53) Reeves Beach (54) Horton Point Park