Just Great Great Pond Preserve, Glastonbury December 2015 Great Pond indeed. You know what's great? Doing a meticulous scroll through old pictures on my old computer before backing them up and -- never mind all that. I'm sitting here in 2022 and just came across this set of pictures from a hike at Great Pond … [Read more...]
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State Parks, Reserves, Preserves, Forests, NAPs, WMAs, & Campsites
State Highpointing Intro
Why State Highpointing?
Land Trust Trails
Connecticut Hiking Challenges & Rewards
CFPA Trails & The Blue Trails Challenge
Town Owned Trails
Peakbagging Tallies
Highpointing and Peak-Bagging Intro
Manchester Field and Woods
Not in Manchester, Not in Roxbury Wyndham Land Trust's Manchester Field and Woods, Union December 2021 In 2025, the New Roxbury Land Trust became part of Wyndham Land Trust. I will keep the page as originally written, however. This property is not officially trailed. Look, I hear you. When did I start writing … [Read more...]
Mattatuck State Forest
Mattatuck State Forest Harwinton, Litchfield, Plymouth, Thomaston, Waterbury, Watertown What started as an over-timbered little 723 acres gifted to the state in 1926 has grown to 4,510 acres in 20 parcels across six towns. Most of what people are familiar with is in Thomaston, Waterbury, and Watertown though. … [Read more...]
Scovill/e/Woodtick Reservoir Loop
Scoville, Scovill, Woodtick, Cornelis, Mill Pond, Whatever ? Reservoir Mill Pond Way Loop December 2021 When all is said and done with regards to CTMQ, and I'm rocking in my chair telling the youngins about my decades-long project to do everything in Connecticut and one scamp asks me, "what do you remember most … [Read more...]
Water Trails
Connecticut's Canoe & Kayak Water Trails This page will likely never be complete... nor completed. I'm not yet sold on whether or not I'll pursue this list myself, but here it is. (The logistics of doing these almost requires two people, which is problematic for me.) If you know of missing trails, please let me … [Read more...]
Onion Mountain Trails
"L'il Bit O' On-yon" Onion Mountain Trails, Canton December 2021 If you're reading this now, a proper trail has been cleared and blazed across the ridge that ultimately does connect to Simsbury's Onion Mountain property. I will revisit and update this page. Someday. This is a Canton Land Conservation Trust … [Read more...]
Nassahegon State Forest Intro
Nassahegon State Forest Burlington I don't know how many of Connecticut's state forests are contained entirely in one town like the Nassahegon is. The forest was originally designated in 1926 to protect the watershed for the state fish hatchery, now called the Burlington Trout Hatchery. Today the forest is … [Read more...]
RWA: Lake Chamberlain
Recharging My Battery Lake Chamberlain, Bethany & Woodbridge January 2021 All Regional Water Authority (RWA) properties require a purchased permit to access. Lake Chamberlain itself is entirely in Bethany, but a couple of the trails within this RWA property extend down into Woodbridge and connect to other … [Read more...]
Tolland County Highpoint: Burley Hill
Burley Hill Tolland County Highpoint: (1,316 Feet), Union December 31, 2021 Wow, this is weird. I just went to look at my page on the Windham County Highpoint at Snow Hill in Ashford and it turns out that I conquered that county on New Years Eve Day exactly five years prior to climbing Burley Hill. I was … [Read more...]
Bunker Hill Trails
Can't(on) Stop, Won't Stop Bunker Hill Trails, Canton November 2021 This is a Canton Land Conservation Trust property. Dear Canton Land Conservation Trust, You keep adding new trails, I'll keep hiking them. The farthest corners of your town are only half an hour away from me. You can't hide from me. I'll … [Read more...]
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