Bolton Notch State Park Bolton & Vernon It's funny when you realize after 14 years of writing this website and hiking all around the state that there's more to do at a state park you thought you'd entirely explored already. Such is the case here, at Bolton Notch. Now, granted, I like to find and write … [Read more...]
Naugatuck State Forest Intro
Naugatuck State Forest Ansonia, Beacon Falls, Bethany, Cheshire, Hamden, Naugatuck, Oxford, Prospect & Seymour Naugatuck State Forest consists of five separate blocks in the towns listed above. They are not necessarily all connected either. Basically, when you drive up Route 8 through the valley south of Waterbury … [Read more...]
Book Review: A Connecticut Christmas
Dreaming of a White People Christmas A Connecticut Christmas Caryn B. Davis, 2017 I'm sure half of you reading this expect mean ol' Steve to get all Grinchy about this book. Well, it's not going to happen. It's a lovely little book full of Christmassy photos and interesting little blurbs. Who doesn't love … [Read more...]
256. Boothe Memorial Park & Museum
Great Connecticut Park? Or Greatest? Stratford (Google Maps location) October 19, 2013 A'ight, look, Boothe Memorial Park & Museum is actually a free, 32-acre park in Stratford just off the Merritt Parkway along the Housatonic River. I find it difficult to call the place a "Park & Museum" as it is a collection of … [Read more...]
Chateau Le’ Gari’
Laissez Le Mauvais Temps Rouler Chateau Le' Gari', Marlborough July, 2019 Let’s start with the name of this winery and event space in Marlborough. “Chateau Le’ Gari’.” I’m missing something. Chateau implies a bit of a more stately structure than what I found in Marlborough, and Le’ doesn’t really mean anything … [Read more...]
World’s Largest Indoor Planetarium Dome
Mohegan Sun(s) Casino of the Sky, Mohegan Sun, Montville Please don’t ask me what separates a “planetarium dome” from a “planetarium.” And please don’t bother Googling this claim to come back and tell me it’s rubbish. It very most likely is rubbish, but Mohegan Sun is especially proud of this claim, which is all … [Read more...]
Tariffville Gorge Cascades
Not Too Taxing Tariffville Gorge Cascades, Simsbury & East Granby According to one map, I just learned that the Farmington River through Simsbury and East Granby is actually entirely Simsbury’s. Huh. That’s not usually the case - and I'm not sure it's accurate anyway. Something I’ve known now for several years is … [Read more...]
Tariffville Gorge Trails
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...]
Harmony in Bedlam
Bedlam in Harmony Chaplin There I was, driving the back roads of Chaplin - which, come to think of it, every road in Chaplin is a back road - and happened upon a scene of pure bedlam. I was on Bedlam Road! Then South Bedlam Road! Then North Bedlam Road! This place is pure Bedlam! Even the businesses here … [Read more...]
Chaplin Museum (Closed)
Sorry Ol’ Chap Chaplin Museum, Chaplin The Chaplin Museum closed around 2012 or so. This is a really, really dumb page. It needn’t exist. But here we are. When I put together the CTMQ Town Guides for small, low-population towns like Chaplin I really want there to be a museum. Connecticut towns without … [Read more...]
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