Whether you are a budding ornithologist or a weekend bird watcher, the Town of Guilford’s East River Preserve is a bird lovers paradise with open fields, forested areas and rolling terrain that is home to a large variety of estuary dependent and forest birds. The trail takes hikers through a series of landscapes including large intact legacy upland forest, successional grasslands and an inland wetland system before heading north. The East River Preserve is 583 acres of attractive rolling fields and woodlands bordering the tidal East River. Be sure to check out the side trail, across from Foote Bridge, that goes to the historic Foote Cemetery. You can retrace your steps or continue along the field edge and make a circuit with the adjoining Preserve trails.
