Sasco Creek Pond II
Hulls Highway, Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut
acquired 1968
5.6 acres
Open Space: assistance of US Department of Housing and Fairfield Conservation Commission State of Connecticut and Urban Development

Directions:

US 95 north to exit 19; turn left onto Center Street; turn left onto Route 1 (Post Road east); soon turn right onto Hull Highway;  the property is on the left (west) side of the road; located  a little north of Gray Rock Road, almost across from house #300 on the right.  

Trails:

11/14/2005.  Parked in the entrance parking lot.  There is a short path heading into the interior to a stream and a shrub swamp area.  We could not get over the stream because it was too wide.  Turned left to walk along the stream to a small swampy area.  Headed over to Hulls Highway, turned left and returned to the parking lot and car.  Patrick L. Cooney.

PLANT LIST:
Dr. Patrick L. Cooney, 11/14/2005

Trees:
Acer platanoides (Norway maple)
Acer rubrum (red maple)
Betula lenta (black birch)
Betula populifolia (gray birch)
Carya ovata (shagbark hickory)
Fagus grandifolia (American beech)
Liriodendron tulipifera (tulip tree)
Populus grandidentata (big-toothed aspen)
Pyrus sp. (crab apple)
Quercus palustris (pin oak)
Quercus rubra (red oak)
Quercus velutina (black oak)
Robinia pseudoacacia (black locust)
Salix sp. (willow )
Sassafras albidum (sassafras)
Tsuga canadensis (eastern hemlock)  one

Shrubs:
Alnus serrulata (smooth alder)
Berberis thunbergii (Japanese barberry)
Cornus amomum (swamp dogwood)
Elaeagnus umbellata (autumn olive)
Euonymus alatus (winged euonymus)
Mitchella repens (partridgeberry)
Rosa multiflora (multiflora rose)
Rubus occidentalis (black raspberry)
Rubus sp. (blackberry)
Viburnum dentatum (arrowwood viburnum)

Vines:
Celastrus orbiculatus (Asiatic bittersweet)
Lonicera japonica (Japanese honeysuckle)
Smilax glauca (sawbrier)
Smilax rotundifolia (round-leaved greenbrier)
Toxicodendron radicans (poison ivy)
Vitis sp. (grape)

Herbs:
Alliaria petiolata (garlic mustard)
Allium vineale (field garlic)
Artemisia vulgaris (common mugwort)
Daucus carota (Queen Anne)
Solidago sp. (goldenrod)
Verbascum thapsus (common mullein)

Sedge:
Cyperus esculentus (nut sedge)

Grasses:
Panicum clandestinum (deer-tongue grass)
Phragmites australis (giant reed grass)
Setaria faberi (nodding foxtail grass)