Make Haste! Hastings Farm, Suffield Multiple visits I’ve been happily popping along the Connecticut Cheese Trail for a decade now. I must admit that I’m surprised that no such official trail yet exists. After all, everyone loves cheese. And baby cows. I first found Hastings farm in 2013 and was very … [Read more...]
SLC: The Mountain Brook Wildlife Preserve
Nice Parking Lot. With a Nice Sign. Suffield Land Conservancy (SLC): Mountain Brook Wildlife Preserve ~.75 Miles, June 2017 See my subtitle above? It’s accurate. This little preserve in Suffield has a nice little parking lot. There’s also a nice sign. And a little bench overlooking a marshy pond. If you happen to … [Read more...]
Southern Star Covered Bridge
The Star of Suffield Southern Star Covered Bridge, Suffield May 2017 Every now and then I write a throwaway post on CTMQ. This is one such post. There is nothing to visit here. You really aren’t supposed to drive through this bridge (I didn’t), and really, who cares? It’s just an ornamental 42-foot long … [Read more...]
CTMQ’s Guide to Suffield
Everything Suffield 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” Suffield CTMQ-style... as well as the other 168 towns, cities, and boroughs in Connecticut. That is the ultimate goal of CTMQ. If … [Read more...]
Suffield’s Town Trails
Suffield’s Town Trails Suffield is a rural town; full of S(t)uff and Fields. The town’s land conservancy has a bunch of trails, and the mighty Metacomet cleaves the town, but the what about the town's land itself? They've got three trailed properties and all three are wildly different from each other. In … [Read more...]
Suffield Land Conservancy Trails
Suffield Land Conservancy Trails Suffield Suffering Suffieldatash. I darn well know that all these places probably shouldn’t be on my list. But I won’t really know for sure until I go there myself. As I write this, having visited zero, I have 13 on my list. So if you’re reading this in the future and there are … [Read more...]
TSTL’16.8: Windsor Locks Canal Trail State Park
The Sky's the Limit 2016 Hiking Challenge #8 Windsor Locks Canal Trail State Park, Suffield/Windsor Locks July 3, 2016 Please note that a commenter states that this section of the state park trail has been cleaned up and is much nicer than the apocalyptic wasteland described below. Of all the Sky’s the Limit … [Read more...]
Hilltop Farm
To Top off Vacation Week Hilltop Farm, Suffield September 6, 2010 Arrgh! This is (yet another) one of the pages on this website that make me crazy when it comes to placement. It’s not a museum, but it’s so much more than a farm and has such an interesting history – and future potential – that its borderline. … [Read more...]
172. King House Museum
My Day with the King of Suffield Suffield (Google Maps location) June 9, 2010 Two years prior to my King House visit, I was nearby along the beautiful route 75 in Suffield at another historic house museum, the Phelps-Hatheway Museum (my visit here), and I think it was only then that I learned of the King House … [Read more...]
Bears! In the Wild
This page has become sort of ridiculous, now that we have bears in our yard and neighborhood fairly frequently. But hey, it’s still different when I see them out on a hike, right? Right. Suffield Land Conservancy (SLC): Sydney F. Fuller Wildlife Preserve November 2017 I came across a mom and her two cubs... … [Read more...]