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CTMQ > Hikes, Bikes & Paddles > Town Land Hikes > Center Springs Park

Center Springs Park

January 7, 2017 by Steve 1 Comment

Hope Springs Eternal
Center Springs Park, Manchester

December 2016

When I decided to visit and write-up “everything” in Connecticut’s 169 towns, the one area I wavered on was these little “town land trails.” I still don’t really know where to draw the line to be honest with you.

I’ve sort of settled on, “If the town claims there are ‘walking trails’ I’ll at least check it out” and slap together a quick little page on the place. I’ve now visited a few in Manchester and while these places aren’t exactly destinations, I’m okay with their inclusion.

Center Springs Park has several features that may pique your interest. There’s the Center Springs Falls which, if you bother to read my page about them, has a fairly interesting history.

There’s a decent sledding hill for the locals.

There’s a disc golf course.

There’s a supposedly 1.5 mile gravel loop trail up and down both sides of Bigelow Brook.

You can fish!

There’s a pier!

There’s a building with bathrooms!

There’s a skating pond!


Or not!

And there’s access to the historic Cheney Rail Trail and the fancy new bridge for it as well.

Center Springs Park is right in the middle of Manchester, and seems to be a pretty cool place to hang out for residents. I visited twice, actually; once with Calvin to check out the falls and once with Damian to walk the rail trail.

Now aren’t you glad I wrote this page?



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Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, New Post, Town Land Hikes Tagged With: Damian, Manchester

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Comments

  1. Cumulus says

    January 9, 2017 at 11:15 am

    When I lived in Manchester we were within walking distance of Center Springs Park, which meant that when there was a heavy snow we (the kids were little then) didn’t have to worry about driving in order to get to a good sledding hill.

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