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CTMQ > Hikes, Bikes & Paddles

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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

Hale & Rockwell Trails

July 23, 2024 by Steve Leave a Comment

This $#!+ Is Bananas, B-a-n-a-n-a-s Colebrook Land Conservancy's Hale & Rockwell Trails, Colebrook July 2024 As of this writing, the Colebrook Land Conservancy manages four trailed properties. The two on this page are combined on their website, so I'm just following suit. And it makes sense, as both are short and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, Land Trust Hikes, New Post Tagged With: Colebrook, Colebrook Land Conservancy

Thompson-Osborn Preserve

July 17, 2024 by Steve 2 Comments

Carboniferific! Thompson-Osborn Preserve, Avon Land Trust, Avon July 2024 "Hey Steve, do you get annoyed when you think you've hiked every land trust trail or all the trails in a town and then they go and add another one?" No! Especially when it's in Avon and the new trail is only 15 minutes from my … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, Land Trust Hikes, New Post Tagged With: Avon, Avon Land Trust

David K. Leff “Hidden in Plain Sight” Trail

July 15, 2024 by Steve 2 Comments

Nothing Leff Unexplored David K. Leff "Hidden in Plain Sight" Trail, Hartland July 2024 David would love this short trail. I love this short trail. And I really love that this short trail exists in David's honor. I met David K. Leff on two occasions and on the second, we had a fairly long and winding … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, New Post, Town Land Hikes Tagged With: Hartland, Industrial History

Ida Carrington Lowell Land

June 9, 2024 by Steve Leave a Comment

Goochy Bethany Land Trust's Ida Carrington Lowell Land, Bethany May 2024 There's just something about trails that start across people's lawns. On the one hand, a huge thank you is owed to the folks who allow this. On the other, it's often a very awkward thing to walk so closely to someone's house and yard. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, Land Trust Hikes, New Post Tagged With: Bethany, Bethany Land Trust

Alice Merritt Recreation Area & Berg Field

June 4, 2024 by Steve 2 Comments

This Land Has Hart & Merritt Alice Merritt Recreation Area & Berg Field, Hartland November 2022 & June 2024 Hartland is a beautiful town. If I was a motorcycle rider, I'd go to Hartland every nice day I could. I would ride up Route 20... and keep riding right on past these two adjacent properties and enjoy the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, New Post, Town Land Hikes Tagged With: Hartland

Three Sisters Preserve

May 31, 2024 by Steve Leave a Comment

Three Sisters... Three Disappointments Bethany Land Trust's Three Sisters Preserve, Bethany & Naugatuck May 2024 Hiking newly acquired, newly trailed properties is great. You get to be one of the first people to see and experience something new. Hiking newly acquired, newly trailed properties is terrible. You … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, Land Trust Hikes, New Post Tagged With: Bethany, Bethany Land Trust, naugatuck

Whitaker Woods

May 28, 2024 by Steve Leave a Comment

I Do Care a Whit Northern Connecticut Land Trust: McCann Farm Nature Preserve, Somers August 2023 & May 2024 The Whitaker Woods Trails are contiguous with McCann Family Farm Trails... and are also contiguous with the Forest View Trails... which are contiguous with Shenipsit State Forest and Soapstone Mountain … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, Land Trust Hikes, New Post Tagged With: Northern Connecticut Land Trust, Somers

Bald Mountain Loop Trail

May 22, 2024 by Steve Leave a Comment

Bald Faced Lie Bald Mountain Loop Trail, Somers December 2023 Things are about to get really confusing around here. This page needn't exist and frankly, the fact that it will in a few minutes when I push the publish button will do more harm than good. Somers' and Bald Mountain have a long, sordid history. … [Read more...]

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

Forest View North & South Trails

May 22, 2024 by Steve Leave a Comment

Hike, Forest, Hike Forest View North & South Trails, Somers May 2024 Firstly, how cool is this? I'm not sure I've seen this signage anywhere else in Connecticut other than on Routes 341 in Kent and 7 in Salisbury for the Appalachian Trail. Of course there are many others around the state... I'm just not … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, New Post, Town Land Hikes Tagged With: Somers

Peck Pond Preserve & Community School Trails

May 21, 2024 by Steve Leave a Comment

Hunt and Peck Peck Pond Preserve & Community School Trails, Bethany May 2024 Through this website, I provide a service. Is it a valuable service? No, not really. But it's a service nonetheless. Like when I put together certain lists, I oftentimes don't know how viable some of those things on those lists are. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, Town Land Hikes Tagged With: abandoned trail, Bethany

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