Everything Guilford I’ve been exploring and writing about Connecticut since 2006. After a decade, I began compiling CTMQ guides for each town in the state. I plan on “completing” Guilford CTMQ-style... as well as the other 168 towns, cities, and boroughs in Connecticut. That is the ultimate goal of CTMQ. If … [Read more...]
Guilford’s Town Trails
Guilford's Town Trails Guilford isn't a large town, but it does have a lot of trailed properties. It's another one of our towns where it seems like the town owned land bleeds into state owned land which surrounds land trust land. This used to bother me from a list-making perspective, but now I've come to really … [Read more...]
Guilford Land Conservation Trust
Guilford Land Conservation Trust Trails You know you have some good stuff as a land trust when the CFPA includes one of your properties in their Blue Trails Challenge list. Such is the case with the GLCT's Westwoods property. While that is certainly the land trusts - and arguably Guilford's - crown jewel, there's a … [Read more...]
CTMQ’s Guide to Haddam
Everything Haddam I’ve been exploring and writing about Connecticut since 2006. After a decade, I began compiling CTMQ guides for each town in the state. I plan on “completing” Haddam CTMQ-style... as well as the other 168 towns, cities, and boroughs in Connecticut. That is the ultimate goal of CTMQ. If I’ve … [Read more...]
Millers Pond State Park Intro
Millers Pond State Park Durham & Haddam Millers Pond is a nice little state park that surrounds a natural spring-fed pond. There are lots of trails that extend beyond the park itself into the surrounding Cockaponset State Forest. The Mattabesett Trail courses through it. Millers Pond is unique in that its … [Read more...]
Book Review: Turning the Tables
Merda Pura Turning the Tables, Teresa Giudice The pandemic has been wild. We've all done things we never thought we'd do... going a week without a shower, eating ice cream for breakfast, learning what Minecraft actually is... and reading a prison memoir from a "Real Housewife of New Jersey." Or her ghostwriter. … [Read more...]
Haddam Land Trust
Haddam Land Trust Trails Bam! Go Forth! To Bamforth! And all the other Haddam Land Trust trailed properties! Man, there's a lot to hike in Haddam. Several state parks, a large state forest, Mattabassett goodness... on and on. And I promise that I won't overlook what the HLT does here either. And they're … [Read more...]
Haddam’s Town Trails
Haddam's Town Trails I won't lie to you and say that I am currently familiar with every nook and cranny of Haddam, the only town in Connecticut with residences on both sides of the Connecticut River. Sure, I'd hiked the Mattabessett Trail through town and some trails in the Cockaponset State Forest before putting … [Read more...]
CTMQ’s Guide to Newtown
Everything Newtown I’ve been exploring and writing about Connecticut since 2006. After a decade, I began compiling CTMQ guides for each town in the state. I plan on “completing” Newtown CTMQ-style... as well as the other 168 towns, cities, and boroughs in Connecticut. That is the ultimate goal of CTMQ. If … [Read more...]
Newtown’s Town Trails
Newtown's Town Trails There are a lot of trails to hike in Newtown. That's it. That's all I really need to say here. We all know what Newtown is associated with and of course that's impossible to divorce from what the town is today. But there's something renewing about getting out into the woods and walking … [Read more...]
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