Friends of Sherwood Island State Park

On this website

The Friends

Who we are and what we do, membership form.

The park

History of the park

The 9-11 Memorial

Park map

Nature Center

Summer 2010

Birds of the park

Checklists, sightings reports, a large collection of annotated photos of birds in the park by A.J. Hand.

See our blog
Sunset lecture series

Nature Center web cams
Towards the shore
Osprey platform

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Nature Center page

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The Park
Sherwood Island State Park, on the shore of Long Island Sound in Westport Connecticut, covers 234 acres of beach, wetlands and woodlands. People come to the park to hike, bike, ski, swim, fish, study nature, watch birds, fly kites, fly model airplanes, play volleyball, picnic, or just relax under the trees.

The Friends
Like other State parks, Sherwood Island needs the support of its friends. The Friends of Sherwood Island got organized in 1995. We raise funds from public and private sources, we help plan the park's future, we work with other environmental and community organizations to give this wonderful park the TLC it deserves. All this is done in cooperation with the State Department of Environmental Protection.

Annual Fundraiser
Shorefest Lobster Dinner
Friday September 10 at 6:00 pm
For members of the Friends of Sherwood Island and their guests.
Click here for the invitation. Membership form.

Seining at the East Beach

Summer at the Nature Center
The Center was open all summer with beach seining, nature crafts, owl-pellet dissections, bird house and kite building, nature walks.
Hours: from now through Columbus day: weekends only, 10-4.

See what's been happening

Nature Center birthday party
On the evening of June 12, the Friends hosted a party to celebrate the first anniversary of park's Nature Center. After getting acquainted with the wildlife in the Center, families gathered to see live birds of prey from A Place Called Hope, the raptor rehabilitation and education center in Killingworth CT.

Slide show of the evening inside and out.

April 29, 2007 proclaimed Sherwood Island State Park Day. Seventy years ago, the legislature voted money to complete the purchase of the parkland. We celebrated on the 28th with visitors who planted 200 saplings, and proclamations from the Westport First Selectman and the Governor.
The day was sponsored by the Brooks Jones Committee, Friends of Sherwood Island State Park and Greens Farms Academy.
Click here for a slideshow.

	Westport artist Miggs Burroughs received the 2006 Special Friend of Sherwood Island award for for the bumper sticker he designed for the Governor's "No Child Left Inside" initiative -- to reconnect youngsters with the outdoors, build the next generation of environmental stewards and showcase Connecticut’s state parks and forests.