Butternut Hill Natural Area was conserved in partnership with the Lake Champlain Land Trust and consists of approximately 84 acres of a mix of wetlands, uplands, two small agricultural fields, and over 1,100 feet of undeveloped Lake Champlain shoreline. The two wetlands are both long, narrow branches of Lakeside Floodplain Forest divided by a low, forested ridge with a beech forest containing impressively large trees and a small patch of red cedar woodland along the rocky bluff at the lakeshore.

The mile-long trail at Butternut Hill winds through floodplain forests, cedar pine forests, and cobble shorelines while offering a great southerly view of Lake Champlain. There is a beautiful walk out to a point of land overlooking the water and two nice shale beaches that someday could support nesting soft-shell turtles.

In the summer of 2018, The Nature Conservancy partnered with a team from the Hermit Woods Trailbuilders, LLC to construct a stone staircase from the end of the trail down to the shale beach.

A description with a map of the trails at Butternut Hill Natural Area is on the TrailFinder website.