The Sucker Brook Hollow Country Park is named after the Sucker Brook River which runs under the first footbridge on the trail. Shortly after crossing this bridge, you will come across a shorter second footbridge over a basin that once held the Sucker Brook until a severe storm caused it to jump its banks in 1985 to where it is today. This caused severe erosion in the surrounding area. In 2003 the town hired an engineering firm to develop plans to help stabilize the channel. The project was completed in 2008 and included re-vegetating the area, a new stone-lined channel, and a new flood plain.

Large and majestic beech, white pine, and maple trees can be seen along the trail giving clues as to where the now forested landscape used to be wide open pasture land.

The property has a rich history of ownership to go along with its natural beauty. Caleb Downer purchased the property from Ira Allen in the late 18th century. At the time the land was the eastern boundary of the City of Burlington.

In 1911 Newton Hinsdale bought the property from Hattie Downer, the widow of Caleb Downer’s grandson. With the property came a New England Cape house and attached was a shed that served as a blacksmith shop, a butchers shop, and a schoolhouse.

In the 1990’s Robert Hill looked into selling the property to his nephew, Daniel Boomhower. Boomhower contacted the Town of Williston with the idea of preserving the land from development, and a trail easement was established to reach the overlook at Five Tree Hill.