Get In Contact

Friends of Flax Pond, P.O. Box 477
Stony Brook NY, 11790

contact person (Nancy Grant, Program director)
(631)-767-6287
flaxpondfriends@gmail.com

Driving Directions

Childs Mansion and
Flax Pond Marine Laboratory
Old Field, NY

Nicolls Road (County Rte. 97) north to Rte. 25A

Left (west) on 25A to first traffic light (Quaker Path) across from Stony Brook Railroad Station

Right onto Quaker Path

At fourth stop sign on Quaker Path, bear left onto Mt. Grey Road Stay on Mt. Grey Rd about a mile

Go left onto Crane Neck Road

Follow Crane Neck Road for 1/4 mile; at bottom of sweeping right-hand descending turn

go right onto Shore Road

The Childs Mansion is the large white colonial house on the left

The Lab is at end of Shore Road on the left

Parking for both the Childs Mansion and the Flax Pond Lab is at the Lab parking lot