Recharging My Battery Lake Chamberlain, Bethany & Woodbridge January 2021 All Regional Water Authority (RWA) properties require a purchased permit to access. Lake Chamberlain itself is entirely in Bethany, but a couple of the trails within this RWA property extend down into Woodbridge and connect to other … [Read more...]
Strong-Howard House
Taking a Fyler Windsor (Google Maps location) December 2021 True story: Back in 2006 when I first started putting together the framework of this ridiculous website - back in the "Connecticut MuseumQuest" days, I had a museum listed named the Lt. Walter Fyler House in Windsor. I don't remember when I realized such … [Read more...]
Litchfield Mid-Century Modern Tour
Something's Breuering Mid-Century Modern House Tour, Litchfield When asked, everyone familiar with Connecticut knows that Litchfield is home to large old historic homes and the center of town is filled with colonials. And they'd be mostly right. The Oliver Wolcott House and the Tapping Reeve House and Law School to … [Read more...]
Tolland County Highpoint: Burley Hill
Burley Hill Tolland County Highpoint: (1,316 Feet), Union December 31, 2021 Wow, this is weird. I just went to look at my page on the Windham County Highpoint at Snow Hill in Ashford and it turns out that I conquered that county on New Years Eve Day exactly five years prior to climbing Burley Hill. I was … [Read more...]
Huntington House Museum (Closed)
A Hunting We Will Go... Unfulfilled Windsor Way back in the beginning of CTMQ in 2006, back when it was Connecticut Museum Quest and was solely focused on museums... this museum in Windsor had already (just) closed. I had no chance of ever seeing it for the purposes of this website. Therefore, it falls outside of … [Read more...]
Evening Sky Brewing Company (Closed)
Not Lyon, It's Good! Evening Sky Brewing Company, Burlington December 2021 The brewery closed in August 2024. Evening Sky caught my eye in 2019 or so for a couple of reasons. One, I had "completed" Burlington the year prior with the smug assumption that nothing new would be coming to the town requiring me to … [Read more...]
Bunker Hill Preserve
Can't(on) Stop, Won't Stop Canton Land Conservation Trust, Canton November 2021 Dear Canton Land Conservation Trust, You keep adding new trails, I'll keep hiking them. The farthest corners of your town are only half an hour away from me. You can't hide from me. I'll always be coming for you. Can't(on) stop, … [Read more...]
Windsor vs. Wethersfield
Consider it... Settled CT's Oldest Town: Windsor vs. Wethersfield I'm not a historian and I've done no research on this eternal Connecticut debate. Yet I feel very comfortable with what I'm about to say. Windsor is the oldest town in Connecticut. Their town motto is "First in Connecticut, First for its … [Read more...]
Smith-Hubbell Wildlife Refuge and Bird Sanctuary
Purple Martins Majesty Smith-Hubbell Wildlife Refuge and Bird Sanctuary and Tower, Milford August 2021 As most readers know, every hike (and "hike") I feature on CTMQ isn't great. Sometimes my hiking partner is a drag, sometimes the weather is a bummer, and sometimes the hike itself isn't impressive. … [Read more...]
The Hubble Museum
Bursting Bubbles East Hartford (Virtual) December 2021 I'm feeling magnanimous... after all, I'm writing this during Christmas week and I'm off work and I'm happy. So I figured I'd throw the person behind The Hubble Museum a bone and include his "museum" among my massive list of Connecticut museums. It is … [Read more...]
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