Guard Hill Preserve
About Guard Hill Preserve
The six-acre Guard Hill Preserve was donated by Adelaide Baker, a poet and author. The preserve features a lovely old field filled with wildflowers, dogwoods, crabapple trees, and apple trees. From the field, a trail winds down the hill and through the woods before returning to the open field.
Guard Hill, a high point in Westport, served as a lookout post during the Revolutionary War, when the landscape was largely free of trees. Below the preserve is the site where General William Tryon and his troops forded the Saugatuck River during their retreat from the 1777 raid on Danbury, making their way toward the waiting ships at Compo Beach.
Directions & Parking
Access to the preserve is from the back of the parking lot behind the Methodist Church (49 Weston Rd/ Rt 57).
Where is it?
49 Weston Rd
Westport, CT 06880