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Land Trust Trails

Tower Hill Preserve

January 13, 2026 by Steve Leave a Comment

Cabin Fever Tower Hill Preserve, Chaplin December 2025 This is a Joshua's Trust property. I walked this trail on a Monday during Christmas week. So imagine my surprise pulling into the parking area and finding two other cars there. In Chaplin! Wonderful! I parked and since this is a 1.3 mile relatively flat … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, Land Trust Hikes, New Post Tagged With: chaplin, Joshua's Trust

Rankin Preserve

January 6, 2026 by Steve Leave a Comment

I Am Not Rankin' on This Place! Rankin Preserve, Ashford January 2017 & December 2025 This is a Joshua's Trust property. I first came here in 2017 before the loop trail existed, so I returned in 2025. Back in 2017 I hopped out of my car, snapped a picture of the sign, jogged down the old woods road to its end … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, Land Trust Hikes, New Post Tagged With: Ashford, Joshua's Trust

Knowlton Hill Preserve

December 16, 2025 by Steve Leave a Comment

A Ton of Knowltons to Know Knowlton Hill Preserve, Ashford & Mansfield November 2025 This is a Joshua's Trust property. Before coming to this property to hike, I visited the Nathan Hale Heritage Museum at the June Norcross Scout Reservation. While there, I learned about Revolutionary War hero Lieutenant … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, Land Trust Hikes, New Post Tagged With: Ashford, Joshua's Trust, Mansfield

Brainerd Quarry Preserve

February 13, 2025 by Steve 1 Comment

A Flipping Success Brainerd Quarry Preserve, Haddam October 2024 This is a Middlesex Land Trust property. 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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, Land Trust Hikes, New Post Tagged With: Cool Geology, Haddam, Industrial History, middlesex land trust

Wagner Woods & Hall farm

January 22, 2025 by Steve Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, Land Trust Hikes, New Post Tagged With: Calvin, Damian, Hikes with my Boys, Simsbury, Simsbury Land Trust, video

Nipmuck Woods

November 21, 2024 by Steve Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, Land Trust Hikes, New Post Tagged With: Northern Connecticut Land Trust, Stafford

New Hartford Land Trust Trails

November 10, 2024 by Steve Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, Land Trust Hikes Tagged With: New Hartford, new hartford land trust

Border Woods

November 5, 2024 by Steve Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, Land Trust Hikes, New Post Tagged With: new roxbury land trust, Woodstock

Bob White Farm (Private)

November 4, 2024 by Steve Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, Land Trust Hikes, New Post Tagged With: Northern Connecticut Land Trust, privately owned trail, Stafford

Rocky Hill Refuge

November 4, 2024 by Steve Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, Land Trust Hikes, New Post Tagged With: Woodstock, wyndham land trust

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