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CTMQ > Articles by: Steve

Imagine Nation

April 21, 2014 by Steve Leave a Comment

If I Ruled the World… Imagine That Imagine Nation Children's Museum, Bristol (Google Maps location) March 7, 2014 Post pandemic, Imagine Nation is no longer a self-guided museum. It is now an instructor-led, appointment only type of place. It still bills itself as a museum however. Everyone is certainly … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Appointment Only, Bristol, Calvin, Children's Museums, Creepy Dolls, Damian, Hoang

Campbell Falls State Park

April 21, 2014 by Steve Leave a Comment

Campbell Falls State Park Norfolk April 19, 2014 Phew. This is hard work. I’ve had a page about Campbell Falls for several years up on CTMQ, but it always bothered me. I visited this place in 2010 with my older son Damian and we merely parked and made the quick .4 mile round-trip walk down to the highlight of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, State Parks, Reserves, Preserves, Forests, NAPs, WMAs, & Campsites Tagged With: Calvin, campbell falls state park, Damian, Hikes with my Boys, Massachusetts, Norfolk, video

Glastonbury’s Town Trails

April 21, 2014 by Steve Leave a Comment

Glastonbury's Town Trails My post-college, pre-Hoang girlfriend was from Glastonbury. I recall checking out Cotton Hollow with her once and thinking, whoa, this is pretty cool. Right here in Glastonbury. I would never have thought such a thing existed here. As she stumbled down the ravine in her improper footwear, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, Town Land Hikes Tagged With: Glastonbury

Norfolk Land Trust Intro

April 20, 2014 by Steve Leave a Comment

Norfolk Land Trust Trails Norfolk I love Norfolk. Love it silly. Of all the northwestern towns that I love, Norfolk is the only one other than Salisbury with a sort of "downtown" worth remarking upon. The iconic Infinity Theater, an incredibly beautiful library, and some Yale properties everyone should see at least … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, Land Trust Hikes Tagged With: Norfolk, Norfolk Land Trust

KLT: Hollister and Whitehouse Family Nature Preserves

April 7, 2014 by Steve 1 Comment

HOLLA-ster Hollister and Whitehouse Family Nature Preserves April 5, 2014 I could get used to this. Short drives, excited sons, cool hikes of perfect (for them) lengths. Perfect in the sense that it exhausts them, but don’t mentally or physically damage them. By my figuring, I can do this pretty much every … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, Land Trust Hikes Tagged With: Calvin, Damian, Glastonbury, Great Views, Hikes with my Boys, Kongscut Land Trust

Kongscut Land Trust Intro

April 6, 2014 by Steve Leave a Comment

Kongscut Land Trust Trails Glastonbury Kongscut is certainly one of the most interesting land trust names in the state. It certainly doesn't mean anything to anyone who doesn't know offhand that it comes from a Native American Indian woes meaning "place of wild goose". Furthermore, the name was chosen because at … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, Land Trust Hikes Tagged With: Glastonbury, Kongscut Land Trust

Thorncrest Farm and Milk House Chocolates

March 26, 2014 by Steve 4 Comments

OMGoshen Thorncrest Farm and Milk House Chocolates, Goshen March 16, 2014 Since our initial visit, we've sort of made Thorncrest our "special" chocolate place. Valentine's Days, anniversaries, "It's Saturday and we're near Goshen So We Might As Well Go to Thorncrest Days..." It's still remote, the salesroom … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food & Drink, Ice Cream, Cheese, & Chocolate Trails Tagged With: Animals, Calvin, CT Chocolate Trail, Damian, Farms, Goshen, Hoang

261. Twitchell-Rowland Homestead

March 25, 2014 by Steve Leave a Comment

Twitchy in the Twitchell Oxford (Google Maps location) March 16, 2014 I feel sort of lame writing up this museum. Why? Because they just got their museum going last year and it's super sparse and can only get better over time. But when you set out to visit every museum in a state with many hundreds of museums, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Calvin, Damian, Historic Houses, Hoang, Oxford

CT17ers & 10 Highest Peaks in Connecticut

March 23, 2014 by Steve 32 Comments

"Because They're There" CT17ers & 10 Highest Peaks in Connecticut I have considered this page way, way more than you'd care to imagine. I have engaged in lengthy email chains with similarly concerned peakbaggers and I have consulted dozens of maps. All to come to the conclusion (for now, in 2020) that it will be a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Geography, Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, Hiking Challenges, Peakbagging Tagged With: Canaan, CT17'ers, Geographic Extremes, Geography, Norfolk, Salisbury

Bethany Land Trust

March 18, 2014 by Steve Leave a Comment

Bethany Land Trust Trails Bethany & Beacon Falls Connecticut has three towns with fairly common female names. The interesting thing about this is that each town bearing a feminine name sort of matches the type of woman I think about when I picture a woman with that name. Madison: Wealthy, white, yuppie, long … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, Land Trust Hikes Tagged With: Beacon Falls, Bethany, Bethany Land Trust

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