Marine Nature Study Area
Oceanside, Nassau County, Long Island, NY
52 acres

Directions:

Take the Sunrise Highway west from Meadowbrook Parkway; drive 1.9 miles and turn left onto Milburn Avenue south; drive 1.1 miles and turn right onto Atlantic Avenue west; drive 0.9 of a mile and turn left onto Waukena Avenue; drive 0.7 of a mile and turn left onto Park Drive; drive 0.3 of a mile to turn left onto Golf Drive; follow the signs through the development to the nature study area.

Open Tuesday through Saturday, year round. No admission charge.

Habitats:

salt marsh, pond, Bedell and Walls Point Creeks

Trails:

Head southeast and cross over Walls Point Creek heading southwest to a pond; cross over the pond and then head south and then southeast to a large pond which you will loop around and return to the first pond; upon your return, turn left ((northwest) and then north, and finally east back to the Visitors' Center.

Facilities:

Visitors' Center, picnic tables, boardwalk, trails.

PLANT LIST:

Trees:
Sassafras albidum (sassafras)

Shrubs and sub-shrubs:
Myrica pensylvanica (bayberry)
Prunus maritima (beach plum)
Rosa rugosa (wrinkled rose)

Vines:
Smilax sp. (greenbrier)

Herbs:
Cakile edentula (sea rocket)

Grasses:
Spartina alterniflora (salt marsh hay cordgrass)
Spartina patens (salt meadow grass)