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, etc. is very, very expensive land. Probably some of the most expensive non-big city land in the country I'd guess. And yet … [Read more...]
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Hawk Hill Farm
Hawk the Herald Angels Sing Hawk Hill Farm, Bloomfield April 2020 This is a Traprock Ridge Land Conservancy Property. I just love the fact that there are so many Bloomfield hikes. I don't really know what the collective thought about Bloomfield is, but I'd guess it has nothing to do with all the available … [Read more...]
Colebrook Land Conservancy Trails
Colebrook Land Conservancy Colebrook Colebrook is beautiful. Colebrook is the Connecticut town that time forgot. A store, a church or two, some houses of course, and... a whole lot of woods. Most of those woods are the Algonquin State Forest, but the local land conservancy has a few parcels as well. One … [Read more...]
Prospect Land Trust Intro
Prospect Land Trust Prospect When I think of Prospect, I think of the caricature old toothless 49'er prospector. And that was before my friend Matt, who lives in Prospect, told me that whenever he tells people he lives in town he does the toothless arm jive we associate with such caricatures. (For the record, I … [Read more...]
Castlerock Lane
Man in a High Castle Castlerock Lane, Bolton April 2020 This is a Bolton Land Trust property. There are expensive homes in pretty much every town in Connecticut. I've seen many. I think everyone assumes this to be true, but I also think there are large swaths who would be surprised to know that there are … [Read more...]
LaSalette Trail
Ideas are Blooming LaSalette Trail, Bloomfield & Simsbury At the time of this writing, I have no idea when the gaps in the LaSalette Trail will be closed - or even if they officially will be someday. Nor do I care, really. Such is my excitement for this trail that I'm forging ahead with hiking it and writing about … [Read more...]
Warren Land Trust Intro
Warren Land Trust Warren Warren is easily one of the least developed towns in all of Connecticut. You don't know anyone from Warren. Heck, you've never even been to Warren and likely have never even heard of Warren. No, no... that's Sherman you're thinking of, not Warren. I have this whole idea to write a … [Read more...]
Cornwall Conservation Trust Trails
Cornwall Conservation Trust Cornwall While gathering up information for this page and its list of trails, I noticed that there is a mountain in Cornwall called Bloody Mountain. Intrigued, I researched the name and found only one reference from about a hundred years ago: "Bloody Mountain got its name from a battle … [Read more...]
Hetzel Refuge
Hike the Hetzel Pretzel Hetzel Refuge, Middlebury May 2019 This is a Flanders Land Trust property. The trail system at the Hetzel Refuge isn’t remotely pretzel-shaped, but I’m sticking with my title. I did, in fact, hike a couple loops that – oh never mind. No use in trying to invent some sort of Hetzel Pretzel … [Read more...]
Deep River Land Trust Trails
Deep River Land Trust Deep River Shout out to our friends at the Deep River Land Trust. No, not for the fact that "Deep River Land Trust" probably sounds funny to people who don't immediately know that Deep River is a Connecticut town with earthen land... shout out to them for have a website, with a modicum of … [Read more...]
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