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...]
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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...]
Hale & Rockwell Trails
This $#!+ Is Bananas, B-a-n-a-n-a-s Colebrook Land Conservancy's Hale & Rockwell Trails, Colebrook July 2024 As of this writing, the Colebrook Land Conservancy manages four trailed properties. The two on this page are combined on their website, so I'm just following suit. And it makes sense, as both are short and … [Read more...]
Thompson-Osborn Preserve
Carboniferific! Thompson-Osborn Preserve, Avon Land Trust, Avon July 2024 "Hey Steve, do you get annoyed when you think you've hiked every land trust trail or all the trails in a town and then they go and add another one?" No! Especially when it's in Avon and the new trail is only 15 minutes from my … [Read more...]
Ida Carrington Lowell Land
Goochy Bethany Land Trust's Ida Carrington Lowell Land, Bethany May 2024 There's just something about trails that start across people's lawns. On the one hand, a huge thank you is owed to the folks who allow this. On the other, it's often a very awkward thing to walk so closely to someone's house and yard. … [Read more...]
Three Sisters Preserve
Three Sisters... Three Disappointments Bethany Land Trust's Three Sisters Preserve, Bethany & Naugatuck May 2024 Hiking newly acquired, newly trailed properties is great. You get to be one of the first people to see and experience something new. Hiking newly acquired, newly trailed properties is terrible. You … [Read more...]
Whitaker Woods
I Do Care a Whit Northern Connecticut Land Trust: McCann Farm Nature Preserve, Somers August 2023 & May 2024 The Whitaker Woods Trails are contiguous with McCann Family Farm Trails... and are also contiguous with the Forest View Trails... which are contiguous with Shenipsit State Forest and Soapstone Mountain … [Read more...]
Edna L. Delano Nature Sanctuary & Rodell’s Roost for Robins
The Name of This Place is Longer Than The Trails Here Edna L. Delano Nature Sanctuary & Rodell’s Roost for Robins, Bethany May 2024 I had an hour to kill. About as long as it took me to type the title above. I kid, I kid. I had a couple shorter Bethany Land Trust hikes on my mind, so off I went to do just … [Read more...]
McCann Family Farm Trails
You McCann Do It! Northern Connecticut Land Trust: McCann Farm Nature Preserve, Somers August 2023 The McCann Farm Trails are contiguous with Whitaker Woods Trails... which are contiguous with the Forest View Trails... which are contiguous with Shenipsit State Forest and Soapstone Mountain Trails... so I've … [Read more...]
Bald Mountain Preserve
Falling Into Winter Past an Old Spring in Somers Northern Connecticut Land Trust: Bald Mountain Preserve, Somers December 2023 Bald Mountain in Somers, the highest point in the town and the highest point along the Connecticut River Valley in the state, is worth your time. No, not because it's the highest point in … [Read more...]
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