You Say Potato, I say Town Owned Property Trails Ostensibly Town Owned Land Trails This section has always been sort of hard to define, but now that I've focused more on what's out there in the woods, I've come to love it. Almost every trail you'll navigate to through this page is on land owned by the town it is … [Read more...]
Goshen’s Town Trails
Goshen's Town Trails Putting together Goshen's pages for CTMQ has been enlightening. I learned (via Wikipedia, for what that's worth) that Ivan Llendl lived here in a $25 million mansion. And one of my son's favorite authors (in elementary school), Mary Pope Osbourne lives/lived here. And Madeline L'Engle! In … [Read more...]
Hilltop Farm Nature Trail
Topping off Suffield Hilltop Farm Nature Trail, Suffield August 2020 It is perhaps premature to be writing this page now in 2020. But you know what? The glacial pace of everything at Suffield's Hilltop Barn tells me that I might as well now, because no one can be sure if and when things will be clearer. … [Read more...]
Chester’s Town Trails
Chester's Town Trails You don't go to Chester to go hiking. You go to Chester to eat, drink, shop, and be fancy. Maybe you go across the river on the ferry. But you do not go to Chester to go hiking. Actually, perhaps you do... the Cockaponset State Forest is there and the trails there are excellent. But … [Read more...]
Hebron’s Town Trails
Hebron's Town Trails Hebron is graced with parts of two state forests (Meshomasic and Salmon River) as well as the popular Gay City State Park. The Air Line State Park Trail also courses through town. When I start these town trail introductory pages that no one reads like that, it usually means I'm about to excuse … [Read more...]
Norwich’s Town Trails
Norwich's Town Trails Ah, Norwich. A town that used to be crisscrossed by all sorts of Mohegan trails back in the day. Since then, though, Norwich came and went as a key white people manufacturing hub and all those trails are long gone. Today, the city has one park with woodland(ish) trails. But fear not! … [Read more...]
Freja Park
Tol'ja Freja Park, Bolton September 2020 Freja Park is a really neat place to visit these days. Sure, it can be a jumping off point for any number of hikes or bike rides along a couple different bike paths. You can even take "secret" trails to some really cool spots that many are unfamiliar with as you head north … [Read more...]
Watertown’s Town Trails
Watertown's Town Trails Watertown doesn't have that many water features. Sure, it's bounded on the east by the Naugatuck River but... it's not really a town feature. It used to be part of Waterbury back in the day, but then split off and became its own thing in 1780. Waterbury isn't too watery either now that I … [Read more...]
Canton’s Town Trails
Canton's Town Trails If you, like me, have always said to yourself, "boy, wouldn't it be interesting if Canton, Connecticut was named after Canton, China" but then dismissed that as a ridiculous idea, you'll be as surprised as I was at the Wikipedia page about Canton saying that this is indeed true. And the … [Read more...]
Rye Street Park
Hiker in the Rye Rye Street Park, South Windsor October 2020 The trail network at Rye Street Park is ridiculous. They are not real trails planned by a serious trail planner. They are absurd double-backing crackhead trails. In fact, they are so dopey that when I first walked some of one a couple years ago … [Read more...]
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