Roxbury’s Town Trails When I wrote up the intro for Rocky Hill’s town trails, I said that it “sounds like a town that would provide lots of difficult hiking opportunities. Alas, Rocky Hill is neither rocky nor hilly.” But Roxbury? Roxbury is indeed rocky. And of course there are billions of “rox” that are … [Read more...]
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Killingworth’s Town Trails
Killingworth’s Town Trails What’s a killing worth? A lot to a bounty hunter assassin I suppose. But here in Connecticut, a Killingworth is a town not quite on the coast, not quite on the river, not quite in the hills. But it does have a lot of woods and that means it has trails. The Killingworth Land … [Read more...]
Rocky Hill’s Town Trails
Rocky Hill’s Town Trails Rocky Hill sounds like a town that would provide lots of difficult hiking opportunities. Alas, Rocky Hill is neither rocky nor hilly. Go figure. In fact, the defining natural feature of Rocky Hill is the Connecticut River. But there was an active quarry here that was (and is) decidedly … [Read more...]
New Hartford’s Town Trails
New Hartford’s Town Trails This page was a tough one to cobble together. The confusing nexus of the local land trust – which owns a lot of land but not many trails, a national land trust – who buys land and then turns it over to... the town, I think, in this case anyway... and then the land actually owned by the … [Read more...]
Old Lyme’s Town Trails
Old Lyme’s Town Trails Good Ol’ Lyme. Good ol’ Old Lyme. Quite a time, one can have in Lyme. The former art colony is sublime – who’s saying that? I’m. How much more can I rhyme with Old Lyme? Hm, well, it has pretty low crime, it’s east of Anaheim, Tyler Olander under Jim Calhoun (who coached in Old Lyme) … [Read more...]
Granby’s Town Trails
Granby’s Town Trails You’d think that these intro pages would be easy for me to compile by now. And for the most part, they are. But every so often, I run into impossibilities. Granby presents some impossibilities. I blame one Mr. George P. McLean. The former Attorney General, Governor, Senator owned the … [Read more...]
Carpenter’s Falls
Couldn’t Build a Better Falls Carpenter’s Falls, Granby April 2018 As of this writing, I’m trying to sort out my “Complete Guide to Granby” and you may be surprised to learn there’s a lot going on here. At least for those of us who are into hiking and exploring the woods. I’ll spare you the confusion of it all … [Read more...]
Oxford’s Town Trails
Oxford’s Town Trails Oxford has a lot of beauty spots, but not too many trails for some reason. Perhaps they like to keep their secret to themselves. The town has a land trust with trailed properties, but they are elusive and difficult to pin down. There's plenty of state land here, but none of it is really pushed … [Read more...]
Power Dams Trail
Fight the Power Power Dams Trail, Farmington March 2018 I hike a lot. I don’t necessarily mean miles upon miles, but rather, lots of different little trails. Many would suppose that they all run together and become repetitive after a while. Many would be wrong. It’s not just that each trail has something … [Read more...]
Hamden’s Town Trails
Hamden’s Town Trails I decided at some point that I would have a “town trails introduction” page for every town in Connecticut with trails traversing town-owned property. I have written many of these little intro pages, and this is a rare one with asterisks. Hamden is a vexing little town when it comes to … [Read more...]
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