Roaring Through the Woods Dinosaur State Park Trails, Rocky Hill February 2016 & 2024 I walked a bit of the Blue Trail with my boys here as part of the Sky's The Limit Challenge in 2016 and I returned 8 years later to walk the rest of the trails. For my page on the Dinosaur State Park Museum, go here. If you just … [Read more...]
The Sky’s the Limit 2016 Hiking Challenge
This is DEEP, Man (Again) Connecticut State Parks “The Sky’s the Limit” 2016 Hiking Challenge Back again for another year! Fortunately for you, you don't have to read any longwinded introduction this year! For that, all you have to do is read what I wrote about the inaugural year's challenge here. The DEEP even … [Read more...]
Waypoint Spirits
Point the Way to the Booze Waypoint Spirits, Bloomfield August 2015 & October 2021 Waypoint opened in 2015 and then ceased operations in October 2019. The brand and distillery were purchased by a new group in late 2019, posted "opening soon" on their Facebook page in early 2020, kept the thing alive during the … [Read more...]
Wintonbury Flying Club
Fly me to the Moon Wintonbury Flying Club Fly-In, Bloomfield September 2015 You can take a nice hike around this place too. I won't pretend for one second to understand the first thing about the world of giant radio controlled airplanes. All I know is that a bunch of people love this hobby, some of the planes … [Read more...]
New England Muscle Bicycle Museum (Closed)
This Place is Bananas! Bloomfield (Closed) May 7, 2011 Since I can only assume you've all read the hundreds of other museum visit pages that I've written, I want to let you know at the outset here that this one will be a bit different than most of the others. For one, this museum no longer exists as it did in … [Read more...]
Speer Preserve
Speer Fishing Speer Preserve, ~.7 mile, Bloomfield February 2016 Yes, I know that it's easy to use the Speer Preserve in Bloomfield as an alternative jumping off point to get up to the Heublein Tower and Metacomet Trail points beyond. And I totally suggest you do that when you become so inspired by this post to … [Read more...]
Van Otterloo Preserve
Doin' the ol' Van Otterloop Van Otterloo Preserve, ~.5 mile, Bloomfield February 2016 There exists - I swear - a dedicated group of people who are more or less familiar with all these tiny little properties with very limited visitation. They are some of my best readers in that they follow me on both Twitter (RIP … [Read more...]
Traprock Ridge Land Conservancy Intro
Traprock Ridge Land Conservancy (formerly Wintonbury Land Trust) Bloomfield, East Granby, & Windsor In April 2023 the East Granby, Wintonbury (Bloomfield), and West Hartford Land Trusts merged to form the Traprock Ridge Land Conservancy. These consolidations make sense for a dozen reasons and I suspect we'll see … [Read more...]
Auerfarm State Park Scenic Reserve
”Oww-er, It’s Cold” Auerfarm Trail, Bloomfield January 5, 2016 All Things Auer Farm So far, the winter of 2015-16 has been absurdly mild. Mid-60’s on Christmas Eve and nearly 60-degrees today, at the end of January. In fact, it’s only been truly cold maybe two days so far this winter. So of course I went … [Read more...]
Samuel Wheeler Reed Park
Wheel on By This One Samuel Wheeler Reed Park, Bloomfield April 25, 2015 Bloomfield has a surprising amount of parks, parkland, land trust property, and the like. This is probably "surprising" because people think Bloomfield is way more urban than it actually is. Sure, it sits atop Hartford and shares some urban … [Read more...]
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