| Sherwood
Island State Park, on the shore of Long
Island Sound in Westport Connecticut, is a peninsula that covers 234 acres of beach, wetlands and
woodlands. People come to the park
to hike, bike, ski, swim, fish, study
nature, watch birds, fly kites, fly
model airplanes, play volleyball,
picnic, or just relax under the trees. |
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Sherwood Point
On the point
at the center of the park's shoreline, there
is a Black Cherry tree that can be
seen from miles around. It watches
over Connecticut's
9-11 Memorial.
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The
West side
West of the Point, beyond the West Beach,
there is a walking trail through the West
Woods (an oak forest). Behind the beach lies the western salt
marsh. North of the marsh, a viewing
platform overlooks the Sherwood Mill Pond.
Under the trees, there are walking trails and picnic
benches.
Slide show. |
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The East side
East of the Point, behind the
East Beach, the Tidal Marsh Nature Trail runs along the
large eastern salt marsh to the creek that separates the
park from Burying Hill beach.
Slide show.
Nature
Trail map.
About the salt marsh.
Also on the
East side, the popular model airplane field.
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The East side - Nature Center
The new Nature
Center between the East Beach and the Nature Trail opened for
the first time in
2009. Nature Center |
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 April 29,
2007 proclaimed Sherwood Island State Park Day.
Seventy years ago, the legislature voted money to complete the purchase of the
parkland. We celebrated on the 28th with visitors who planted
200 saplings, and proclamations from the Westport First
Selectman and the Governor.
The day was sponsored by the Brooks Jones Committee, Friends of
Sherwood Island State Park and Greens Farms Academy.
Click
here for a slideshow. |
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