How You Can Help   From the Central Pine Barrens to the waters of the Great South Bay, with your help we can keep Long Island protected for nature and for people. Uplands Farm Sanctuary Location:  Cold Spring Harbor, Suffolk County. Find out how to visit! Size: 97 acres Click here to see a larger version of this map. Uplands Farm Sanctuary provides habitat for a number of unique flowering plants, including mountain laurel. Fast Fact: Uplands Farm Sanctuary was donated to The Nature Conservancy by Mrs. Jane Nichols and has served as the Long Island Chapter headquarters since 1971.  Contact Us For more information, please contact: The Nature Conservancy on Long Island 250 Lawrence Hill Rd Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724 (631) 367-3384

Uplands Farm is comprised of open fields, ash and oak hedgerows, vernal pools, upland woods and farm buildings. All were strongly affected by past human activities such as farming and animal grazing.

If left undisturbed, the Upland Farm fields would eventually revert back to woodlands, but the fields are mowed to provide habitat diversity and open space, both of which are rapidly disappearing from Long Island.

What to See

Animals: The fields and hedgerows provide habitat for a wide variety of animals, including birds, small mammals and about 40 species of butterflies.

Plants: The eastern woodland contains red maple, black cherry and red cedar trees, mixed with oak, ash and hickory trees. The western woodland, with its hilly terrain, features a canopy of oaks, tulip trees and black birch, with an understory of flowering dogwood, maple-leaf viburnum and extensive thickets of mountain laurel.

What The Nature Conservancy Has Done:
In 1969, Southampton declared in its master plan that preservation of the Long Pond Greenbelt was a significant goal. Land acquisitions proceeded slowly until 1985, when The Nature Conservancy increased its involvement in the conservation project. What followed was a chain of land acquisitions in the Greenbelt by The Nature Conservancy, Southampton Town, and Suffolk County.

How to Visit

The sanctuary is open daily from dawn to dusk, and chapter offices are open Monday through Friday from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. 

Trail maps are available for the Daniel P. Davison Self-Guided Nature Trail.  Please contact the Uplands Farm Sanctuary for more information.

Northern State Parkway East to Exit 39 North or the Long Island Expressway (495) East to Exit 48 North (Round Swamp Road).
Follow Round Swamp Road North to Jericho Turnpike (Route 25).
Turn left (West) onto Jericho Turnpike.
At the next traffic light, turn right (North) onto Avery Road.
Turn right onto Woodbury Road.
Turn left (North) onto Route 108.  Go approximately 2 miles to the end of 108 (you will see a stop sign) and take the steep right up the hill (Lawrence Hill Road).
The Conservancy entrance is the third driveway on the right at the top of the hill. The office is in the barn at the end of the long driveway through the field.
Please park in the parking area and adjacent grassy field on the silo side of the barn.

Nature picture credits (top to bottom, left to right): Photo © TNC (Uplands Farm); © Chris Heler (rabbit); © Arx Fortis (mountain laurel).