Land Trust Me, You Don't Want to Do This Connecticut’s Land Trusts & Their Trails For several years, this introductory paragraph used to say some stuff about how this page was ridiculous because no way would I ever even consider hiking all of the trails on all of our various land trusts’ properties. I just didn’t … [Read more...]
Salisbury Association Land Trust
Salisbury Association Land Trust Salisbury I'll admit it. I've created over 100 of these land trust trails pages and this one has me slightly defeated. Perhaps I'm a bit fatigued... nah. It's just that some of these entities don't have the resources to create useful websites. So I have to go on a time-consuming … [Read more...]
SLT: Tanager Hill
Blazes Appropriately Scarlet Simsbury Land Trust's Tanager Hill Property, Simsbury April 2020 Imagine Connecticut without the Metacomet Ridge that rises right up like a reptilian spine through the middle of the state. No Sleeping Giant, no Castle Craig, no Heublein Tower... no Talcott Mountain and no Penwood State … [Read more...]
BLT: Edith Toomey Clark Property
EDITH! Edith Toomey Clark Property, Bolton April 2020 I would confidently state that no one hikes this property without hiking the Rose Trail at the historic Bolton Heritage Farm. There is another way to access the trails here, but that would mean walking along the Hop River State Park Trail, which, now that I … [Read more...]
Hartland Land Trust Intro
Hartland Land Trust Hartland Not that counties mean anything in Connecticut, but pick someone up off the street in Hartford and drop them in the middle of the woods in Hartland and I'll be they wouldn't believe that they are still in Hartford County. Especially after walking hours through thick forests in an … [Read more...]
East Haddam Land Trust Intro
East Haddam Land Trust East Haddam East Haddam has way more trails than you'd probably think. Not that it's not a lovely town with lovely woods - for it is. It's just that it's... East Haddam. The Goodspeed, Gillette Castle, Devil's Hopyard, the swing bridge... but trails? Yes, and lots of them. Below are … [Read more...]
SLT: Owen-Mortimer Trail
You'll Owen Me For This One Simsbury Land Trust's Owen-Mortimer Trail, Simsbury April 2020 This little blue-blazed trail could/should... will be important someday. More on that in a minute. I parked in a little pull-out on East Weatogue Street even though there's a true hiker's lot just south of there. Let … [Read more...]
Stonington Land Trust Intro
Stonington Land Trust Stonington Let's face it, people don't often go to Stonington for the sole purpose of hiking. As arguably Connecticut's hottest town for tourists, most visitors would rather fight the throngs for downtown parking and walk around its immaculate sidewalks near the shoreline. And that's … [Read more...]
Great Meadows Conservation Trust Intro
Great Meadows Conservation Trust Glastonbury, Rocky Hill, Wethersfield Although this Trust works within three towns, they only maintain trails in Wethersfield. South of Hartford the Connecticut River winds through 4500 acres of open land, the Great Meadows of Wethersfield, Rocky Hill and Glastonbury. This … [Read more...]
Stamford Land Conservation Trust Intro
Stamford Land Conservation Trust Stamford Do you ever think about these land trusts in lower Fairfield County and how extraordinary they are? Land in Greenwich, Stamford, Darien, New Canaan is very, very expensive land. Probably some of the most expensive non-big city land in the country I'd guess. And yet these … [Read more...]
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