Long Pond Natural Area includes a Vermont Fish and Wildlife fishing access, paddock Hill Trail and unmarked logging roads. There are no facilities.
Hikers can now track their position while exploring our trails using the Avenza Maps app on their smartphones. To learn how to record your route, drop placemarks, and more using the Avenza Maps app, please see our Avenza How-to Guide and download the natural area's trail map.
Please read our Preserve Visitation Guidelines.
What to See: Plants
Long Pond is surrounded by a northern hardwood forest composed of sugar maple, red maple, yellow birch, American beech, balsam fir, white and red spruce and white ash. The understory includes hophornbeam, striped maple and a few old yellow birches. The most important ecological feature is a mature northern white cedar swamp on either side of Sawmill Brook at the south end of the pond. The dense canopy of cedar is broken occasionally by large white spruce. There are a number of sedges found in the area including sweet gale, leatherleaf and speckled adler.
What to See: Animals
Birds include common loon, great blue heron, mallard and black duck, red-tailed hawk, bald eagle, osprey, American kestrel, pileated woodpecker, hermit thrush, purple finch and black-throated green warbler. You'll also find such mammals as mink, snowshore hare, red-backed vole, long-tailed weasel, river otter, bobcat, porcupine and moose.
