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...]
Wolcott Land Conservation Trust Intro
Wolcott Land Conservation Trust Wolcott I feel kind of bad for the WLCT. I mean, they’re cool and all and they have land holdings and Wolcott has its natural features, but… but their largest holding is Hitchcock Lake. And Hitchcock Lake is surrounded by homes. It’s a lovely lake to be sure, but there’s no hiking … [Read more...]
Cheshire Land Trust Intro
Cheshire Land Trust Cheshire Cheshire's kind of a neat town in terms of its geography. It's big, flat town with a steep wall making its western border. Like, "Come, enjoy Cheshire... just don't go west." Of course, that western ridge offers some of the best views and hiking in this part of the state. I'm not … [Read more...]
Environmental Learning Centers of Connecticut Trust Intro
Environmental Learning Centers of Connecticut Trust Bristol & Burlington Hi. What are you doing here? I don’t know what I’m doing here, so you really need to question your life. This is one of those hopelessly confusing things that I spend way too much time trying to sort out. The ELCCT owns two nature centers … [Read more...]
Wilton Land Conservation Trust Intro
Wilton Land Conservation Trust Wilton I originally had a few more trailed properties on this page. Then when I looked at what the town of Wilton claimed, I removed a few. By “claimed” I mean that Wilton the town claimed some of the land that the WLCT has listed on their site as their properties. Wilton … [Read more...]
ELT: Tariffville Gorge
An Ever Source of Confusion Tariffville Gorge, East Granby April 2019 The Eversource Land Trust is one of those entities that sort of exists on the fringes of CTMQ-land. It's real, and it's exactly what it sounds like: the massive utility company puts some land here and there into trust. Then they pretend they are … [Read more...]
JT: Utley Hill Preserve/Recreation Park
Chasing Utley Utley Hill Preserve & Recreation Park, Columbia July & September 2019 At the risk of making this page more confusing than it needs to be, I’ll try to explain what’s going on here as succinctly as possible. Joshua’s Trust owns a parcel of land called the Utley Hill Preserve that protects the Columbia … [Read more...]
SLT: James Property
Jamesy-Pie James Property, Simsbury Land Trust October 14, 2015 My younger son Calvin has a friend named James and he calls him Jamesy-Pie for some reason that no one can explain. It is not said as an insult; it's actually used endearingly the best as I can tell, and Jamesy-Pie doesn't mind it. Hiking the … [Read more...]
GLT: Fox Brook Preserve
Gosh Darn Nice Goshen Land Trust, Goshen, 0.7 Miles March 2016 When you skim this page it will have no effect on you. And it shouldn’t. It’s just another short little trail you’ll likely never seek out featuring a little boy you’ll never know. But a lot of my inspiration to write up all the stuff that I do really … [Read more...]
Bolton Land Trust Intro
Bolton Land Trust Bolton My wife randomly asked me yesterday if Bolton was that town with "nothing" to do for CTMQ. Unfortunately for her, this led to a flood of information for which she was not prepared and about which she did not care. It was Bozrah, not Bolton! Heck, Bolton has a land trust with at least … [Read more...]
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