West Hills County Park — Attraction in Town of Huntington

West Hill County Park consists of three (two, really) sections: WHCP-West and WHCP-East separated by Sweet Hollow road. Both West and East sections have their parking lots. West parking is located off Highhold Dr. (40.813286, -73.437325), and this is a parking lot and official entrance as believed by google map. The East Parking is located at (40.801256, -73.421759) off Sweet Hollow road. Google map shows this as a turn to gravel road (Ridge dr). There is a large parking lot there, restrooms, several picnic areas, and a dog park. There are trails connecting East and west sections. To the South of West Hill County Park, separated by the Northern Parkway, there is West Hills Nature preserve. The only access to this area I am aware of is a small roadside parking (3-4 cars) at 40.795993, -73.421430 near the West Hill Preserve trailhead. We hiked both section. This East section is where Jaynes hill is – the highest point on Long Island. There are multiple trail some for people, some shared with horses, so watch where you are stepping :) Trails are well marked and maintained. We did not follow a specific trail but walked along a long loop along the edges of the park . The entire trip was just under 4 miles, given our wandering here and there. You can shorten it as there are many parallel trails that allow to cut this loop. If you add the Western section you can easily create a 7-9 mile "loop". The Western Section was disappointing. large section of WHCP-West is occupied by the youth camping ground that is apparently used by the scouts. It is fairly beaten down, with a bunch of wooden shelters and countless signs of intense human activity. This part is neither beautiful nor interesting. The return trail goes along Northern State parkway, which is noisy and messy. The only interesting part of the trail is the northern section from the end of the Mt.Misery Road to an abandoned parking lot at Gwynnne Road with crossing to...

I loved West Hills Park, I worked there and was the Best experience in a job I ever had. Joe was my boss at the time. I loved everyone I worked there with, at that Park! They were the Best years of my life, best job, Best boss-Joe....I think retired now.... Loved all the guys in that Park.... Great Park to hike... Can't say more, only wish Smithpoint park never got rid of me, my goal was to hopefully get more permanent work other than 3 plus year seasonal graduating full time to Smithpoint park. That's a whole different ball game Park---- ughhhhhhhh.... 😢😢😢😢

Thank you Joe for having me and allowing me to work the 3 years in that beautiful Park and trusting me to do the great work that I did for the patrons at Sweet Hallow Hall.

Sad thing, later: some monster burned the BEAUTIFUL building down. 😢😢😢😢

West Hills Park was the greatest Park to work for and awesome people that I had the Great pleasure of working with. Again, thank you Joe for allowing me to work there from 2002-2005 at the Best Park in Suffolk County!!!!!!...

I was expecting more. This is a really small hiking trail, leading around the highest point on Long Island. But don't get excited, it's the highest in terms of above sea level. It's not a high point in relation to what's around it. That can be a visual let down. There's basically a rock and - as others have noted - a huge water tower for a view.

But it's much better maintained and marked than nearby Muttontown Preserve and this seems to be part of an (official? unofficial?) greenway linking a bunch of parks from midway in the island to the north shore. For that, way to go Suffolk County. Good on ya.

And there are a few benches and picnic tables.

We came in from the back way so we wouldn't have to pay for parking (we're cheapos) and it was a decent way to spend a few hours on a...