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...]
Fenton-Ruby Park
A Real Gem Fenton-Ruby Park and Wildlife Preserve, Willington August 2019 I've written before that Connecticut's northern towns contain secrets. Not quite "Twin Peaks" level secrets, but something along those lines. I'm talking about things like how there was a point at which I thought I had hiked every trail in … [Read more...]
Housatonic Overlook & Tucker’s Ridge
Not Tuckering Out Housatonic Overlook & Tucker's Ridge, Orange January 2021 Rare is the trail that starts you off at the highlight of the trek. This is one such trail - presuming you begin at the northern end at the High Ridge Road turn-around. If you'd rather leave the views until you have some trail behind you, … [Read more...]
Woodstock’s Town Trails
Woodstock's Town Trails We are stardust We are golden And we've got to get ourselves Back to the garden By the time we got to Woodstock We were half a million strong The next line of that famous Joni Mitchell song is, "And everywhere there was song and celebration." Indeed. Woodstock is the 169th of 169 … [Read more...]
Case Mountain Recreation Area Intro
Case Mountain Recreation Area Manchester & Glastonbury Case Mountain drives me nuts. It's a town park in Manchester but everyone thinks its a state park. The "mountain" with the view is not Case Mountain... Its Lookout Mountain. There is no view from Case Mountain. The trail network is messy. Oh you want … [Read more...]
Waterford’s Town Trails
Waterford's Town Trails Waterford is one of those towns that shouldn't be its own town. It's tiny, just like its tiny neighboring New London. It was part of New London, of course, until some farmers from what is now Watertown decided they wanted to break free. And now we have two towns. And this particular … [Read more...]
Kettle Hole Trail
HOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLE! Kettle Hole Trail, Ledyard January 2016 When my son Damian was younger, one of his favorite words to say was "hole." Now, Damian didn't develop any speech until around five or six years old, and wasn't able to clearly communicate until maybe seven or eight. But "hole" was one of his first … [Read more...]
Torrington’s Town Trails
Torrington's Town Trails Oof, this is a tough one. Torrington - and this is a good thing! - has a few state parks and two of them are connected by the CFPA's John Muir Trail and the Paugnut State Forest. Fine. No big deal. Except that the town has attached a bunch of spur trails and connecting trails to the … [Read more...]
North Branford’s Town Trails
North Branford's Town Trails North Branford is a weird town. I don't mean that the people there are weird. They may be, I don't know. But the town itself... Back in the day Lake Gaillard was created to provide water to the area and as a result, The South Central Connecticut Regional Water Authority owns about a … [Read more...]
New Fairfield’s Town Trails
New Fairfield's Town Trails New Fairfield is not very much like Fairfield at all. While both are in Fairfield County, Fairfield is a town with a commercial area and a couple universities and an identity. New Fairfield is a farming community that always votes Republican and doesn't have all that much going on - which … [Read more...]
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