Nathan Hale State Forest Andover & Coventry As with many state forests, there's no clear trail guide to help us navigate the place. There are a bunch of mountain bike trails, old woods roads, horse trails, and deer trails. A few trail maps exist, but they are a bit sketchy. Which, let's be honest, makes any … [Read more...]
Nipmuck State Forest
Nipmuck State Forest Ashford, Stafford, Union, Willington, Woodstock 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 Nipmuck... it's tough. It's big and it's sprawling, sure, but most importantly it contains many secrets within it. … [Read more...]
Bigelow Hollow State Park Intro
Bigelow Hollow State Park & Adjacent Nipmuck State Forest Union, Woodstock, Massachusetts Grrr. And Brrr. Grrr because in reality, Bigelow Hollow State Park is actually pretty small - containing a few loop trails, campsites, and Bigelow Pond. But no one differentiates the state park from the larger Nipmuck State … [Read more...]
Mansfield Hollow State Park & Wildlife Area
Mansfield Hollow State Park & Wildlife Area Mansfield & Windham You're not going to find too many references to the Mansfield Hollow Wildlife Management Area. But in reality, the WMA has more land acreage than the state park. But it's all one chunk of land and lake, so it's ridiculous for me to even make this … [Read more...]
Meshomasic State Forest Intro
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...]
Gay City State Park Intro
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
Burr Pond State Park Intro
Burr Pond State Park Torrington & Winchester Grrrr Pond State Park... I know I knew this, but did you know that when Connecticut designates a state park in the middle of a state forest, its land is no long state forest land? So every time you see that I have a state park listed as part of a state forest, I think … [Read more...]
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