Honey Hill Nature Preserve

The preserve is an ideal spot for a family walk. The trails are wide and relatively smooth, and the landscape offers a mix of rises, wetlands, and modest outcroppings. Rock walls thread through much of the preserve indicating it was once a collection of woodlots harvested by early settlers to fuel their stoves and fireplaces. The two miles of existing trails have been expanded into recently-acquired contiguous acreage, and into town-owned open space.

Historical note: General Benedict Arnold and 400 Connecticut militia pursued 2,000 British troops through portions of this remote section of Weston's Upper Parish as the Red Coats retreated to Compo Beach in Westport following an ill-fated raid on Danbury in 1777.