Haddam Land Trust Trails Bam! Go Forth! To Bamforth! And all the other Haddam Land Trust trailed properties! Man, there's a lot to hike in Haddam. Several state parks, a large state forest, Mattabassett goodness... on and on. And I promise that I won't overlook what the HLT does here either. And they're … [Read more...]
Northwest Connecticut Land Conservancy Trails
Northwest Connecticut Land Conservancy Brookfield, Kent, Litchfield, New Milford, Newtown, Sharon, & Sherman Up until 2020, there existed three land trusts in northwest Connecticut that no longer exist: The Brookfield Land Trust, The Naromi Land Trust, and the Weanitogue Land Trust. In 2019, the Brookfield Land … [Read more...]
SLT: Wagner Woods
Nature Show Wagner Woods, Simsbury Land Trust September 2013 I'll apologize up front. This is one of those pages that I put together for me and my wife to look at in twenty years when we're reminiscing about our sons. So yes, there are two videos below that we both love but which you all won't give a rat's … [Read more...]
HLT: Indian Meadow
"Completing" Harwinton... Again Harwinton Land Trust: Indian Meadow November 2020 Ah, Indian Meadow. Back in 2018 when I "completed" Harwinton, this property was my bugaboo. I knew at the time that a trail was being developed here, but since it wasn't yet, I called the town "complete." Of course, if you know … [Read more...]
GMCT: Eleanor Buck Wolf Parcel
Buck It Great Meadows Conservation Trust's Eleanor Buck Wolf Parcel, Wethersfield May 2020 The Great Meadows Conservation Trust holds properties in Glastonbury, Rocky Hill, and Wethersfield. Sounds impressive. And I'm not here to denigrate the fine work these folks do, as it's as important to protect land in … [Read more...]
Watertown Land Trust Trails
Watertown Land Trust Trails Bethlehem & Watertown Here we are again... on another land trust intro page with a listing of four trailed properties that may or may not be complete. I've become pretty adept at figuring out these lists when they are not provided by a land trust. (And I get it - keeping up the website … [Read more...]
Colchester Land Trust Trails
Colchester Land Trust Trails Look, I haven't stepped foot on a Colchester Land Trust trail as I write this sentence. In situations like this, I go and grab a photo from the land trust in question and post it just below this paragraph. In the curious case of Colchester, this was the only photo available for me to … [Read more...]
BLT: Lombardi Ridge Preserve & Bobcat Woods
Not a Rest Stop Lombardi Ridge Preserve & Bobcat Woods, Bolton April 2020 Anyone who drives the NJ Turnpike is familiar with the Vince Lombardi Rest Stop. It's the one with views of Manhattan across the Hudson River. It's huge. And it's necessarily ugly. The Lombardi Ridge Preserve in Bolton is a very, very … [Read more...]
Norwalk Land Trust Trails
Norwalk Land Trust Trails I've written many times about how much I appreciate these coastal Fairfield County land trusts. And Norwalk is the sixth most populous city in the state! The mere fact that there's an active and vibrant land trust there is fantastic. There's only one property with a real trail and … [Read more...]
Chester Land Trust
Chester Land Trust Oh, Chester. Everyone loves Chester. Not quite Essex, but not Deep River either. Chester is lovely. Randomly, my father grew up in Chester, Pennsylvania which is just south of Philadelphia. His family was part of the white flight in the 1950's and while Pennsylvania's Chester is now home to an MLS … [Read more...]
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