Middletown's Town Trails Now THIS, folks, is how you do it. Middletown is one of our fine towns that puts major effort into a town trails guide. The 2016 edition was 75 pages long. SEVENTY-FIVE pages! I love it. And now that I've compiled a trail guide for the other 168 towns on CTMQ, I expect to see more of 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
TSTL’16.2: Collis P. Huntington State Park
The Sky's the Limit 2016 Hiking Challenge #2 Collis P. Huntington State Park, Redding, Bethel, Newtown February 27, 2016 Most The Sky's the Limit Challenge points allow those seeking them a few different trail choices in obtaining them. For instance, if I was doing this thing myself, I'd be fully exploring the … [Read more...]
Dinosaur State Park Trails
Roaring Through the Woods Dinosaur State Park Trails, Rocky Hill February 2016 & 2024 I walked a bit of the Blue Trail with my boys here as part of the Sky's The Limit Challenge in 2016 and I returned 8 years later to walk the rest of the trails. For my page on the Dinosaur State Park Museum, go here. If you just … [Read more...]
The Sky’s the Limit 2016 Hiking Challenge
This is DEEP, Man (Again) Connecticut State Parks “The Sky’s the Limit” 2016 Hiking Challenge Back again for another year! Fortunately for you, you don't have to read any longwinded introduction this year! For that, all you have to do is read what I wrote about the inaugural year's challenge here. The DEEP even … [Read more...]
Speer Preserve
Speer Fishing Speer Preserve, Bloomfield February 2016 This is a Traprock Ridge Land Conservancy Property. Yes, I know that it's easy to use the Speer Preserve in Bloomfield as an alternative jumping off point to get up to the Heublein Tower and Metacomet Trail points beyond. And I totally suggest you do that … [Read more...]
Van Otterloo Preserve
Doin' the ol' Van Otterloop Van Otterloo Preserve, Bloomfield February 2016 This is a Traprock Ridge Land Conservancy Property. There exists - I swear - a dedicated group of people who are more or less familiar with all these tiny little properties with very limited visitation. They are some of my best readers … [Read more...]
Traprock Ridge Land Conservancy Intro
Traprock Ridge Land Conservancy (formerly Wintonbury, East Granby, and West Hartford Land Trusts) Bloomfield, East Granby, & Windsor In April 2023 the East Granby, Wintonbury (Bloomfield), and West Hartford Land Trusts merged to form the Traprock Ridge Land Conservancy. These consolidations make sense for a dozen … [Read more...]
Auerfarm State Park Scenic Reserve
”Oww-er, It’s Cold” Auerfarm Trail, Bloomfield January 5, 2016 All Things Auer Farm So far, the winter of 2015-16 has been absurdly mild. Mid-60’s on Christmas Eve and nearly 60-degrees today, at the end of January. In fact, it’s only been truly cold maybe two days so far this winter. So of course I went … [Read more...]
Samuel Wheeler Reed Park
Wheel on By This One Samuel Wheeler Reed Park, Bloomfield April 25, 2015 Bloomfield has a surprising amount of parks, parkland, land trust property, and the like. This is probably "surprising" because people think Bloomfield is way more urban than it actually is. Sure, it sits atop Hartford and shares some urban … [Read more...]
Dodge Paddock/Beal Preserve
Couldn’t Dodge Sandy Dodge Paddock/Beal Preserve , Stonington May 16, 2015 This post pretty much represents everything I love about these particular tiny little land trust properties – and every reason why I continue exploring them and writing about them. This little place is only 3.68 acres. The “hike” on the … [Read more...]
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