Facilities

Established in 1989, The Tomasso Nature Park was given to the Town of Plainville by Tomasso Brothers. The Park was established as a wetland mitigation area for the wetland loss in the reconstruction and expansion of the runway at Robertson Airport. Wetland vegetation, animals and soils were literally removed from the construction site and meticulously relocated by light machine and hand to their current home in the Nature Park.

Animals common to the Nature Park include eastern painted turtle, common snapping turtle, northern water snake, eastern garter snake, green frog, bullfrog, great blue heron, Canada goose, red-winged blackbird, yellow warbler, green heron, mallard duck, raccoon, white-tail deer, and muskrat.

Plants common to the Nature Park include speckled alder, red maple, common American elder, umbrella sedge, broadleaf cattail, buttonbush, beggar's tick, sensitive fern, pickerelweed, blue flag, sedge, sweet flag, yellow pond lily, and arrowhead.