It is part of the Town of Westport and Westport Land Conservation Trust Herb Hadfield Conservation Area. From their website "Among the things to keep an eye out for are swamp azaleas, club moss, ferns, sassafras bushes, summer sweet skunk cabbage, witch hazel and spice bushes. Look up to see beech trees, oak trees, red maple trees, sassafras trees (note the mitten leaves with three blunt fingers). The age and structural diversity of the upland forest on the Herb Hadfield Conservation Area shows little history of human use and may represent primary forest. The Westport Land Conservation Trust is trying to maintain the high quality of the healthy riparian ecosystem by preserving a conservation corridor from the protected headwaters of the brook to the conserved properties at this outlet."
Trail maps are at either parking area.