The Chaumont Barrens offers one of the finest examples of alvar grasslands in the world. Alvars are broad, flat, naturally open habitats with only a thin veneer soil over a base of limestone or dolostone. Here you can see rare plants, including wildflowers like prairie smoke, found nowhere else in the Northeast.
Chaumont
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Telephone: 315-387-3600
Address: Van Alstyne Rd., Chaumont, NY 13622
Website: The Nature Conservancy - Chaumont Barrens Preserve (This link leaves DEC's website)