Friends of Connetquot River State Park Preserve

The Friends of Connetquot is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation, conservation and history of the 3,473-acre Connetquot River State Park Preserve. We work to help management protect a pristine environment and historic buildings and artifacts. We also support educational programs, fishing facilities and hiking and equestrian trails.

The Connetquot River State Park Preserve is a New York State Park, "that comes with some very special distinctions. Connetquot has fauna and flora that you wouldn't find in most of the other Long Island parks. It's our pristine environment that makes Connetquot so very special, and, as stewards of this Preserve, each of us have the opportunity and responsibility to maintain its unspoiled beauty. Besides scary (though non-venomous) snakes, where else might you hear peeper frogs, smell skunk cabbage, enjoy the beauty of the Southern Twayblade orchid (which is just one of the many rare plant species we protect), marvel at American eels and our ever-growing Purple Martin community? These beautiful fascinations of nature are just bonuses as we hike, ride or fish along the Connetquot.

Then too, serendipity heightens the diversity of the park. No matter how familiar you are with our preserve, you may, on your twentieth, fiftieth or hundredth visit, happen upon something you haven’t seen before."
~Janetmarie Soley, FOCSPP President