East Haven Land Trust East Haven Yes, you mopes, East Haven has a land trust. A rather active one at that. The oversee/own a whole slew of parcels around the town. What’s that? Half of them are less than an acre? Oh. Actually, so what. That’s how a land trust builds and grows and how larger parcels of land … [Read more...]
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Land Trust of West Haven Intro
Land Trust of West Haven West Haven West Haven, one of the our state's four havens, isn't too much of a haven for open enjoying open space for hiking. West Haven is home to the longest stretch of public beach in the state, so there is beautiful open space here, just not your typical land trust open … [Read more...]
Four Okay TRLC East Granby Hikes
If You Can't Trust a Land Trust... Four (Former) East Granby Land Trust Hikes April 2019 The East Granby Land Trust became part of the Traprock Ridge Land Conservancy in 2023. One assumes these trailed properties will remain the same: Ian Clarke Preserve (Formerly Newgate Farms) Eastfield Farms Great … [Read more...]
Four TRLC East Granby Trails to Skip
If You Can't Trust a Land Trust... Four (Former) East Granby Land Trust Hikes April 2019 The East Granby Land Trust became part of the Traprock Ridge Land Conservancy in 2023. One assumes these trailed properties will remain the same: Donald and Barbara Algren Preserve Fieldstone Griffin Marsh (formerly … [Read more...]
Ernie Boothroyd & Bellante Preserves
Sitting and Finding Balance Balanced Rock & Sitting Rock Trails, Northern CT Land Trust, Ellington May 2019 & December 2023 The original Boothroyd Preserve trail system here was expanded with the addition of the adjoining Bellante Preserve in 2019. Ernie Boothroyd Nature Preserve Balanced Rock Trail After … [Read more...]
Groton Open Space Association Trails
Groton Open Space Association Trails Groton & Ledyard GOSA seems to operate in that netherworld between land trusts and town trails. There are many of these organizations in the state and they can get confusing. I can't pretend that I have it all figured out, but I try. All I really care about is that they maintain … [Read more...]
Wapping Bog
Do Wap Nothern Connecticut Land Trust: Wapping Bog, East Windsor April 2019 Wapping Bog has no marked trails and it's not really a place anyone would ever want to explore to any extent but it's called "Wapping Bog" and there's a sign so here we are. On Wapping Road in East Windsor. It looks like a … [Read more...]
New England Forestry Foundation Intro
New England Forestry Foundation East Lyme, Hartland, Pomfret, Woodstock Welcome to another one of those weird pages that is a category unto itself. The New England Forestry Foundation is... a foundation that cares about forests in New England. They own four forests in Connecticut and they claim that they have … [Read more...]
NCLT: Swann Farm
My Swann Song (For a Week or Two) Northern Connecticut Land Trust (NCLT): Swann Farm, Ellington 0.5 miles, March 2019 Normally, I would write up a half-mile hike, hit publish, link it at the appropriate places, not really tell anyone, and call it a day. But this half-mile hike, which is certainly not a hike I'd … [Read more...]
Hockanum River Trail 23: Windemere Avenue
That's Some Kinda Bridge Hockanum River Trails: Windemere Avenue, Vernon & Ellington ~1.3 miles one way, March 2019 If you are reading these Hockanum River Trails south to north you have already read... there's no single way to hike the Ellington trails, so I have no idea where you've come from. But you can go … [Read more...]
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