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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

Welch Parcels

January 26, 2021 by Steve Leave a Comment

Welp... That's Welch Welch Parcels, Bethany January 2021 This is a Bethany Land Trust property. An important piece of information you should know when setting out to hike little parcels and preserves in The New Haven County Black Hole (Bethany, Prospect, northern Woodbridge, and eastern Beacon Falls) is that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, Land Trust Hikes, New Post Tagged With: Bethany, Bethany Land Trust, Calvin, Hikes with my Boys

Case Mountain Recreation Area Intro

January 25, 2021 by Steve Leave a Comment

Case Mountain Recreation Area Manchester & Glastonbury Case Mountain drives me nuts. It's a town park in Manchester but everyone thinks its a state park. The "mountain" with the view is not Case Mountain... Its Lookout Mountain. There is no view from Case Mountain. The trail network is messy. Oh you want … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, Town Land Hikes Tagged With: case mountain recreational area, Glastonbury, Manchester

Meshomasic State Forest Intro

January 21, 2021 by Steve Leave a Comment

Meshomasic State Forest Colchester, East Hampton, Portland, Glastonbury, Hebron, & Marlborough I can't promise you that this page will ever be complete. Yes, I like to be thorough and almost always am, but when it comes to the Mesh... it's tough. It's big and it's sprawling, sure, but most importantly it contains … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, State Parks, Reserves, Preserves, Forests, NAPs, WMAs, & Campsites Tagged With: Colchester, East Hampton, Glastonbury, Hebron, Marlborough, Portland

Gay City State Park Intro

January 21, 2021 by Steve Leave a Comment

Gay City State Park Hebron, Glastonbury, Bolton Gay City is one of those state parks that is an almost equal mix of history, hiking, and... I guess swimming. Gay City was first settled in 1796 by a religious sect led by Elijah Andrus and later by Rev. Henry P. Sumner. The Gays soon comprised the majority of the 25 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, State Parks, Reserves, Preserves, Forests, NAPs, WMAs, & Campsites Tagged With: Bolton, Glastonbury, Hebron

RWA: Maltby Lakes

January 18, 2021 by Steve 2 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Audubon, Nature Conservancy, RWA, &US Army Corps of Engineers Trails, Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, New Post Tagged With: Calvin, Hikes with my Boys, New Haven, Orange, privately owned trail, RWA Trails, West Haven

Harkness Memorial State Park Intro

January 13, 2021 by Steve Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, State Parks, Reserves, Preserves, Forests, NAPs, WMAs, & Campsites Tagged With: Harkness Memorial State Park, Waterford

New Roxbury Land Trust

January 12, 2021 by Steve Leave a Comment

The New Roxbury Land Trust Trails Union & Woodstock Valerie Ietto, the founder, president and driving force behind this smaller land trust passed away in 2024. It was decided that moving all lands and membership to the Wyndham Land Trust was the best path forward and that was completed by the end of 2025. I'm … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, Land Trust Hikes Tagged With: new roxbury land trust, Union, Woodstock

Waterford Land Trust

January 12, 2021 by Steve Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, Land Trust Hikes Tagged With: Waterford, Waterford Land Trust

Waterford’s Town Trails

January 12, 2021 by Steve Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, Town Land Hikes Tagged With: Waterford

Sunnybrook State Park Intro

January 8, 2021 by Steve Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, State Parks, Reserves, Preserves, Forests, NAPs, WMAs, & Campsites Tagged With: Sunny Brook State Park, Torrington

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