You Bet Your Butt This Place is Great Mianus River State Park, Stamford & Greenwich October 2, 2016 This page only describes the trails at the state park, which were hiked for 2016 Sky's the Limit DEEP challenge. Mianus River Park is an attached town park that also straddles Stamford and Greenwich. Longtime … [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
Center Springs Falls
Hope Springs Eternal Center Springs Falls, Manchester November 26, 2016 Falls Fact: 10-foot high cascade from a culvert I know you're eyeing these pictures warily and wondering if I've lost my mind. Or, more accurately, if the author of Connecticut Waterfalls has, since it’s his list I’m following. And, on … [Read more...]
Hockanum River Trail 9: Laurel Marsh
Landfill Sunrise Hockanum River Trail: Laurel Marsh, Manchester ~3 miles, December 2016 If you are reading my thru-hike of the Hockanum River Trail in order (generally south to north), you have already read the Chipper Drive Trail page. If you haven’t, it’s a fun one and you should. Better yet, start at the … [Read more...]
Angelo Joseph Sferrazza Memorial Park
Hm. Angelo Joseph Sferrazza Memorial Park November 2016 When an unassuming man decides to hike every trail in Enfield, he simply drives to the few trailheads in town and goes about his little communes with nature. He may take his son with him. No big deal. There are no mountains in Enfield. There are no long … [Read more...]
Willimantic River Alliance Intro (Hikes)
Willimantic River Alliance Tolland, Windham, Stafford, Mansfield, Coventry, Tolland Man, this is a confusing one for me. This outfit oversees a water trail from Stafford Springs to Willimantic and some hiking trails in those towns plus the ones in between. I never meant to include Connecticut’s river trails … [Read more...]
Eversource Land Trust
Eversource Land Trust Brooklyn, East Granby, Enfield, Granby, Middletown, New Fairfield, Waterford, Windsor Locks, Surprising, isn’t it? We don’t really think of a giant utility as something that would create and manage a land trust. But here we are. And I’m here because of King’s Island; an oblong piece of … [Read more...]
Vernon’s Town Trails
Vernon's Town Trails Although spliced by I-84, Vernon has a decent number of trails. Many are within earshot of the highway, but that shouldn't stop you. Of course, the CFPA's Shenipsit Trail traverses the town as well. And by town I mean Vernon, not Rockville. Rockville is great and all, but it's merely a part of … [Read more...]
Hockanum River Trail Intro
Hockanum River Watershed Association Hockanum River Trail East Hartford, Manchester, Vernon, Ellington HOCKANUM: From the Native American word "Hocquaun", meaning a hook-shaped or crooked river. I love the Hockanum Trail. There are no mountains or even hills. There are barely any rocks. The trail takes hikers … [Read more...]
Enfield’s Town Trails
Enfield's Town Trail There are towns with no town trails - meaning trails on town-owned property - so no one can make fun of Enfield for only having one trail at the time of this writing. What people can make fun of is the fact that Enfield's lone town trail has a seedy history. One which I sort of … [Read more...]
Manchester’s Town Trails Intro
Manchester's Town Trails Man. You people have no idea. For whatever reason, compiling Manchester's trails has been a very, very difficult task. Although the town itself has a pretty great set of pages dedicated to its trails. It was the two land trusts in town and some other confusion that was driving me … [Read more...]
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