A Flipping Success Middlesex Land Trust's Brainerd Quarry Preserve, Haddam October 2024 This is the 3,254th page I've published on CTMQ and I believe it's the very first time I've done a specific thing. I've stolen a punny title from someone else. In this case, something called the Connecticut River Gateway … [Read more...]
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Wagner Woods & Hall farm
Nature Show Simsbury Land Trust's Wagner Woods, Simsbury September 2013 & November 2024 The Hall Farm parcel was added to Wagner Woods after I first published this page. I hiked the new parcel 11 years later. Wagner Woods I'll apologize up front. This is one of those pages that I put together for me and my … [Read more...]
Nipmuck Woods
Nipping up to Stafford to Tuck in the Woods Northern Connecticut Land Trust's Nipmuck Woods, Stafford November 2024 Here's a good example of the challenge of what I do with CTMQ. Although, in fairness, I do this to myself. I "completed" Stafford in 2017. It felt good. Granted, Stafford isn't exactly a bustling … [Read more...]
New Hartford Land Trust Trails
New Hartford Land Trust Trails When I started this website in 2006, it was just about museums. A couple years later, I added CFPA trails. And several years later I decided to tackle land trust (and other) trails. From 2006 until 2022 or so, there were no New Hartford Land Trust trails. Which is crazy, since New … [Read more...]
Border Woods
Bordering on Madness New Roxbury Land Trust's Border Woods, Woodstock November 2024 None of the New Roxbury Land Trust properties are officially trailed. The last time I experienced a New Roxbury Land Trust property, I wrote: Look, I hear you. When did I start writing about untrailed and admittedly … [Read more...]
Bob White Farm (Private)
Bob and Weave, Bob and Weave Northern Connecticut Land Trust's Bob White Farm, Stafford November 2024 I don't think you're supposed to hike here. It's tough, man. It's tough being a Connecticut completist and seeing a trailed and mapped property almost surrounded by trailed and mapped properties - and … [Read more...]
Rocky Hill Refuge
Eesh Wyndham Land Trust's, Rocky Hill Refuge, Woodstock November 2024 I went to the Rocky Hill Refuge on Rocky Hill Road in Rocky Hi - err, in Woodstock. (Coincidentally, I had just "completed" Rocky Hill a week or so prior.) You do not need to ever go to the Rocky Hill Refuge on Rocky Hill Road in Woodstock, … [Read more...]
Sandy Brook Trail
That Colebrook Magic Colebrook Land Conservancy's Sandy Brook Trail, Colebrook September 2024 Man, Colebrook is a pretty town. And making the drive from Peoples State Forest in Barkhamsted to this parcel of woods in Colebrook is quite the drive. Skinny roads that wind along mountain streams for miles... I know a … [Read more...]
Rocky Hill Meadows/Goff Brook Trail
Goff Brook, not Brooke Goff Great Meadows Conservation Trust's Wood Parcel, Rocky Hill September 2024 Back when I walked around and then wrote about farm road trails just south of here, I said: The "Great Meadows" is very confusing. It is, as I understand it, a large swath of meadow along the Connecticut River … [Read more...]
Deer Hill Trail
Hanging on for Deer Life Colebrook Land Conservancy's Deer Hill Trail, Colebrook July 2024 Alternative title: Deer Fly Trail This trail is great. I just wanted to put that out first. Any complaints below about biting insects is simply a result of time and place; certainly not something anyone can do anything … [Read more...]
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