Mansfield’s Town Trails Hellooooo Mansfield! I used to live in you! Many different parts of you, actually. I lived in your Jungle at UConn – Middlesex 4th Represent! And I lived in an assortment of random off-campus dwellings during the summers of my UConn experience. I have shopped in your woefully outdated and … [Read more...]
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Blackledge Falls
”Don’t Go Chasing Waterfalls...” Blackledge Falls, Glastonbury April 27, 2014 This hike was part of a twofer. That’s right, I was putting my boys through the paces – first a few miles away at Shoddy Mill Preserve and now here at Blackledge Falls near Glastonbury’s border with Hebron. (On subsequent days, … [Read more...]
Shoddy Mill Preserve
Not Too Shoddy Shoddy Mill Preserve, Glastonbury April 27, 2014 I’ve been on a kick lately hiking with my sons. Credit the endless winter of 2013-14 and our shared need to just get outside now that the weather has warmed above freezing. (That and my OCD telling me that build out my new CTMQ sections on land … [Read more...]
Tolland’s Town Trails
Tolland’s Town Trails Tolland has done me a favor and I love them for it. You see, when I first put this page together years ago, there were “competing” Tolland town trail resources. It appears that they’ve coalesced and now most of what I am calling Tolland’s Town Trails all fall under the Tolland Conservation … [Read more...]
Mill Pond Trail
Duck, Duck, Goose... Spiral Slide! Mill Pond Trail, Newington March 2014 Yes, I know. I know this is a somewhat ridiculous “trail” and to have its own page on CTMQ is a bit silly. Don’t I have enough to write about already? Must I bother with a little walk around a pond in Newington? Yes and yes. But once … [Read more...]
Glastonbury’s Town Trails
Glastonbury's Town Trails My post-college, pre-Hoang girlfriend was from Glastonbury. I recall checking out Cotton Hollow with her once and thinking, whoa, this is pretty cool. Right here in Glastonbury. I would never have thought such a thing existed here. As she stumbled down the ravine in her improper footwear, … [Read more...]
Burlington’s Town Trails
Burlington's Town Trails I love Burlington hiking. There is a lot of it. Much of it great. But for years, it all seemed to be CFPA or Nature Conservancy or state land trails. And then... voila! The town purchased a beautiful property and the local land trust helped clear some trails and now we have some content to … [Read more...]
West Rock Nature Center Trails
"C'mon D!" West Rock Nature Center, New Haven January 18, 2014 If you're poked around this site a bit more than the average visitor, you may know that I am drawn to quirky and odd things that seem incongruous to me. I've written here and there about the various oddities in and around West Rock Park. Things … [Read more...]
Fisher Farm Open Space
Give a Man a Fisher... Fisher Farm Open Space, Avon & Farmington July 2010 & November 2025 This trail has matured and grown since my 2010 visit. It's great now. My 2010 advice: Don’t bother. Unless you are 100% immune to poison ivy and get your jollies hiking through pancake-flat meadows and woods, there’s … [Read more...]
Avon’s Town Trails
Avon's Town Trails Avon is a great example of why keeping up with CTMQ is both impossible and fun. Since I began the site in 2006, Avon has done a fantastic job with the trail system it manages. They have connected what used to be a disjointed mishmash of properties and now one can hike long, contiguous … [Read more...]