Upcoming Events in January

Important: Events are free, registration is suggested. To register, please email greenbeltnews@aol.com or call (or as otherwise noted in event detail). Dress appropriately for ticks.

Monday, January 12 – FLPG Monthly Meeting, 6:00 P.M. via Zoom. All are Welcome!

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Saturday, January 17 – Old Farm Road Cleanup, 8:00 A.M. Help clean up the roadside along FLPG’s

adopted road. Meet at Poxabogue Park, 191 Old Farm Road, Sagaponack. Bring gloves, bags provided. For more information, contact Peter Wilson, 631-553-1393.

Sunday, January 18 - Long Pond Greenbelt South Loop. 10:00 A.M.-11:00 A.M. Leisurely stroll through beautiful Vineyard Field. Join Friends of the Long Pond Greenbelt for an easy-paced one mile hike with views of ponds and kettle holes. Meet at the grass parking area behind the SOFO museum at 377 Bridgehampton/ Sag Harbor Turnpike. Leader: Dai Dayton 631-745-0689

Saturday, January 31 - Long Pond Greenbelt North Loop, 11:00 A.M. - 1:00 P.M. Join Southampton Trails Preservation Society for a 3.3-mile loop, moderately paced, mostly flat, in the Long Pond Greenbelt Nature Preserve between Sag Harbor and Bridgehampton. The hike takes you along shady woodland paths and around a series of freshwater ponds including Long Pond. A hike here feels like stepping into a tranquil, watery landscape that highlights the natural beauty of eastern Long Island. While driving North on Main Street approaching the intersection of Main Street and Jermain Avenue in Sag Harbor from the direction of the Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike (heading towards Otter Pond) stop at the secondary dirt parking lot of Mashashimuet Park on the right-hand side of the road. While heading north on Main Street, parking lot is before the gas station on the left side of the road and the main entrance to the park on the right side of the road (main entrance has a sign over it with Mashashimuet Park written over the road) and the pickle ball courts also on the right side of the road. Leader: Hank Oppenheimer, (631) 204-7223

Sunday, February 1 - Full Snow Moon Hike. 5:30PM-6:30PM. Co-sponsored by Friends of the Long Pond Greenbelt and the South Fork Natural History Museum (SOFO). The Farmer’s Almanac tells us that since the heaviest snow usually falls during this month, native tribes of the north and east most often called February’s full moon the Full Snow Moon. Join us on this leisurely paced hike through Vineyard Field’s open field trails, behind the South Fork Natural History Museum (SOFO. Meet at the SOFO Museum parking lot, 377 Bridgehampton Turnpike, 200 yards north of the RR tracks. Leader: Jean McDermott, 631-599-2391. RSVP: info@longpondgreenbelt.org.