Completely Nuts An astute reader once asked, “Hey Steve, how will you ever actually complete a Connecticut town?” What she meant was that new things open all the time. New breweries, new museums, new trails, new whatevers. And believe it or not, I sometimes learn of things that belong on a CTMQ list after I’ve … [Read more...]
Non-CT Travel, Hikes, Books, & Movies
Non-CTMQ Everything I Feel Like Chronicling Not in or Related to Connecticut I've resisted putting this together in some cohesive way for years. Many years. But as I've settled on the major sections of this website, I realized I have a few outlying subjects that simply never fit in elsewhere. Granted, many of these … [Read more...]
CT Books, Movies, People, & Stories
Connecticut Books, People, & Essays I probably shouldn’t have ever begun reading and writing about Connecticut books. It’s just one of those lists that I can’t possibly “finish” in any meaningful way. But that’s fine, I don’t mind. If you’re is into books, I also review non-Connecticut hiking books and the Modern … [Read more...]
CTMQ’s Town Guides
Everything Connecticut I've been writing CTMQ since September 2006. In 2016, I decided to slightly alter my path forward and began putting together "CTMQ Town Guides." This represents the culmination of everything I've been doing here since the beginning; with the ultimate goal being that of "completing" towns … [Read more...]
Highpointing and Peak-Bagging Intro
This Page Needs More Prominence! Highpointing & Peakbagging Don't tell anyone, but this is perhaps my favorite pursuit. Moreso than museums. If I had the time, I’d devote a lot of time to these lists. As life would have it, what with two little kids and a job and all that, these are pretty much life-long … [Read more...]
CFPA Trails & The Blue Trails Challenge
Connecticut Forest & Parks Association Trails 2006 - Skip Intro and Jump down to Trail List There are nearly 1,000 miles of CFPA hiking trails in many different towns in little ol' Connecticut. This list follows the organization's Blue Trails Challenge List and their published Walk Books. The CFPA is … [Read more...]
Food & Drink
Restaurants, Foods, Diners, Taverns, Ice Cream, Cheese, Chocolate, Breweries, Brewpubs, Cideries, Kombucheries, Wineries, Meaderies, Distilleries, & Soda Makers This page now serves as a fairly robust jumping off point for the many food and drink sections of CTMQ. The state has maintained some culinary “trails” over … [Read more...]
Connecticut Hiking Challenges & Rewards
Bring Them On! If you know anything about me, you know that I'm a sucker for hiking challenges. Peak-bagging and high-pointing and red-lining get me more excited than you'd ever believe. There are a slew of such challenges all over New England and New York – as well as all over the country and world. Real life makes … [Read more...]
Town Owned Trails
169 Towns, 10,069 Trails (est.) Town Managed/Owned Trails This section has always been sort of hard to define, but now that I've focused more on what's out there in the woods, I've come to love it. Almost every trail you'll navigate to through this page is on land owned by the town it is in. That's the idea … [Read more...]
Land Trust Trails
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...]
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