I'll Drink to This Place Maltby Lakes, West Haven, New Haven, & Orange January 2021 All Regional Water Authority (RWA) properties require a purchased permit to access. In case you're curious, Maltby Lakes was my very first RWA hike, 14+ years after I began this website. The RWA properties have always been this … [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
Harkness Memorial State Park Intro
Harkness Memorial State Park Waterford Hark! The Harknesses left their fingerprints all over Connecticut, from their former home in Waterford to the Yale campus. Originally from Ohio, Edward S. Harkness was to become heir to a fortune initiated by his father's substantial investments in John D. Rockefeller’s … [Read more...]
New Roxbury Land Trust
The New Roxbury Land Trust Trails Union & Woodstock I'm confused. First by the "New Roxbury" name of course, since this land trust's holdings are in Union and Woodstock... many miles from western Connecticut's Roxbury. Their website does not offer an explanation for their name, but I really don't care. I care more … [Read more...]
Waterford Land Trust
Waterford Land Trust Trails Waterford If you're actually reading this - and I've a long standing thought that literally no one reads these blurby paragraphs about nothing on these types of pages that I create just to give myself more work - know that this is nearly my very last land trust introduction page that … [Read more...]
Waterford’s Town Trails
Waterford's Town Trails Waterford is one of those towns that shouldn't be its own town. It's tiny, just like its tiny neighboring New London. It was part of New London, of course, until some farmers from what is now Watertown decided they wanted to break free. And now we have two towns. And this particular … [Read more...]
Sunnybrook State Park Intro
Sunnybrook State Park Torrington Sunnybrook is weird in the sense that it's a state park with a bunch of trails that are also part of the CFPA Blue Trails network as the Alain and May White Nature Trails. Sure, this is just an artifact of something or other, but it confuses my hierarchies on CTMQ. The park only … [Read more...]
GMCT: The Wood Parcel
A Place Just For Me Great Meadows Conservation Trust's Wood Parcel, Wethersfield January 2021 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...]
Windsor Locks Canal Trail State Park Intro
Windsor Locks Canal Trail State Park Suffield & Windsor Locks It's kind of impressive how many "Trail State Parks" we have in Connecticut. These long, serpentine state parks that travel along rivers and old railroad routes are not your typical state parks, and I enjoy their oddness. And they often come with … [Read more...]
Hockanum River Trail 24: Pleasantview Marsh
So Pleasant Hockanum River Trails (VGV): Pleasantview Marsh Trail, Vernon ~0.3 miles total, November 2020 This short stretch of the HRT was created in 2020. If you are reading these Hockanum River Trails south to north, you have already read the Oakland Trail page from down in Manchester. If you haven’t, it’s … [Read more...]
Kettle Hole Trail
HOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLE! Kettle Hole Trail, Ledyard January 2016 When my son Damian was younger, one of his favorite words to say was "hole." Now, Damian didn't develop any speech until around five or six years old, and wasn't able to clearly communicate until maybe seven or eight. But "hole" was one of his first … [Read more...]
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