Land Trust Me, You Don't Want to Do This Connecticut’s Land Trusts & Their Trails For several years, this introductory paragraph used to say some stuff about how this page was ridiculous because no way would I ever even consider hiking all of the trails on all of our various land trusts’ properties. I just didn’t … [Read more...]
East Granby Land Trust Trails Intro
East Granby Land Trust Trails Granby East Granby is just... East Granby. It's not all fancified like Granby with its "North Granby" and "West Granby" frou-frou. No, East Granby just goes hard by itself. East. Gran. By. Which is cool and all but the East Granby Land Trust doesn't provide maps online... or, … [Read more...]
Redding Land Trust Intro
Redding Land Trust Redding & Bethel I’m a bit Red(ding) in the face. For whatever reason, Redding seems to “protect” their protected lands not only in the real world, but also here on the interwebs. As of November 2018, both the Redding Land Trust and the town of Redding do not post their lands with trails online. … [Read more...]
BLT: Fetzer Property & Falls
I Love This House Fetzer Falls at the Fetzer Property, Burlington May 2015 Writing CTMQ has been a great way for me to meet some really interesting people over the years. Many of these people aren’t remotely “famous” or sought out, but that’s okay. They all probably like it that way. One such person is … [Read more...]
Orange Land Trust Intro
Orange Land Trust Orange Orange you glad you clicked on this page? There is such a thing as the Orange Land Trust, and they do own a bunch of little parcels all over town. However, there seems to be some question (from me) as to what is hikeable among them. As far as I can tell, almost nothing. But the … [Read more...]
Lyme Land Conservation Trust
Lyme Land Conservation Trust Lyme & East Haddam Li'l ol' Lyme, Too oft malign'd Hiking it should be a breeze 's'long as I don't get riddled wi' disease Turns out that deer ticks have tons of open space in which to hang out before infecting hikers with Lyme Disease. Between the town of Lyme, the state, The … [Read more...]
Naromi Land Trust Intro
Naromi Land Trust Sherman and New Milford Naromi Land Trust derived its name from the Naromiyocknowhusunkatankshunk (pronounced Naromi yock now husunk atank shunk) Brook, an aboriginal word which means "water flowing from the hills." The brook of the same name runs through Sherman along Church Road and under Route … [Read more...]
Seymour Land Conservation Trust Intro
Seymour Land Conservation Trust Seymour and Oxford I've become fairly adept at writing these trails orgs' intro pages. I can usually rip through putting one together in under ten minutes. Not so with Seymour's Land Conservation Trust. Their website in its current (September 2018) state is terri-- let's say, … [Read more...]
CLCT: Sweetheart Mountain
Sweeeeeeeeeeet! Canton Land Conservation Trust (Canton & Burlington) July 28, 2018 Son has another Bouncy birthday somewhere in Canton, check. Dad can't wait to, um, foster his independence, check. Canton has an unhiked property, check. Dad has will to hike it, check. I'm a reallll sweetheart. There … [Read more...]
Friends of Shetucket River Valley Intro
Friends of Shetucket River Valley Franklin, Lisbon, Scotland, Sprague, Windham You've got me. I've never heard of this outfit either. But hey, they have done a bang up job of snapping up adjoining land parcels in Franklin and Sprague alone the Shetucket River and for that, they've made the hallowed pages of … [Read more...]
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