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CTMQ > CTMQ Town Guides > CTMQ’s Guide to Durham

CTMQ’s Guide to Durham

January 26, 2019 by Steve Leave a Comment

Everything Durham

I’ve been exploring and writing about Connecticut since 2006. After a decade, I began compiling CTMQ guides for each town in the state. I plan on “completing” Durham CTMQ-style… as well as the other 168 towns, cities, and boroughs in Connecticut. That is the ultimate goal of CTMQ.

If I’ve missed anything in town or if anything has closed or changed, please let me know.

Museums

Durham Historical Society at Center School House
Durham Fair Farm Museum
Charlie Mack’s Matchbox & Lesney Toy Museum
William Kent Charitable Foundation Gallery

Hikes

Explore Connecticut’s Durham Outdoor Guide

Millers Pond State Park – Intro & Trails
Tri-Mountain State Park
Durham Meadows WMA
Cockaponset State Forest – Intro

CFPA’s Field Forest Trails
CFPA’s Mattabessett Trail – Intro

    Section 3: Routes 66/147 – Routes 68/157
    Section 4: Routes 157/68 – Stage Coach Road
    Section 5: Stagecoach Road – Lone Pine Trailhead (East)
    Section 6: Lone Pine Trailhead (East) – Harvey Road
    Section 7: Harvey Road – Seven Falls (Route 154)

Middlesex Land Trust – Intro

    Mica Ledges Preserve

Durham Town Trails – Intro

    Curtis Woodland
    Frederick White Farm Open Space

Food & Drink

CT Cheese Trail: Deerfield Farm
CT Homemade Ice Cream Trail: Durham Dari Serv

Looking for your favorite restaurant? Here is an explanation as to why it’s not here.

Everything Else

Selectman’s Stones
Coginchaug Cave
Farnum Falls
South End Avenue Ice Pond Falls
Pest House
Isiah/Moses Austin House
Mill Bridge
Durham Fair
Stephen Woods Lane
Satan in CT Trail: Hellgate Road

Durham: Complete!

I “completed” Durham in 2024 but new and/or previously unknown-to-me CTMQ-worthy places and things open all the time, so a town is never really “complete.” I will, of course, continue to visit and write about these new places and things.

Wrap-Up and Completion Celebration Meal at The Hard Hat Tavern

Durham Fair


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