CTMQ’s Guide to Bloomfield

Everything Bloomfield

I’ve been exploring and writing about Connecticut since 2006. After a decade, I began compiling CTMQ guides for each town in the state. I plan on “completing” Bloomfield CTMQ-style… as well as the other 168 towns, cities, and boroughs in Connecticut. That is the ultimate goal of CTMQ.

If I’ve missed anything in town or if anything has closed or changed, please let me know.

All The CTMQ Bloomfield Stuff

Museums

4-H Education Center at Auer Farm
Auer Farm Mushroom Barn Museum (Potential future museum)
Captain Oliver Filley House (Potential future museum)
Fannie R. Gabriel History Center
The Farm Implement Museum (RIP)
Old Farm School Museum
New England Muscle Bicycle Museum (RIP)
SW District School (Potential future museum)

Hikes & Bikes

Auerfarm State Park Scenic Reserve
Penwood State Park – Intro

Other Penwood Trails

Talcott Mountain State Park – Intro
CFPA’s East-West Trail – Intro

Section 1: Penwood State Park to TBD (Future trail)

CFPA’s Metacomet Trail – Intro

Section 10: A Towering Achievement
Section 11: You Can’t Pen These Woods

Wintonbury Land Trust – Intro

LaSallette Trail
Beacon Hill Preserve (Potential future trails)
Evans Family Meadows (Potential future trails)
Hawk Hill Farm Preserve
Speer Preserve
Stout Family Fields
Van Otterloo Preserve

Bloomfield’s Town Trails – Intro

Auer Farm Trails
Farmington River Park
Filley Park
LaSalette Open Space
MDC Reservoir 6
M.K. Wilcox Park
Seabury Wildwood Trails
Samuel Wheeler Reed Park

Multi-Use/Rail Trails

Bloomfield Greenway

Food & Drink

David Glass Cheesecake (Closed)
CT Beer Trail: Back East Brewing Company
CT Beer Trail: Thomas Hooker Brewing Company
CT Spirits Trail: Waypoint Spirits

Looking for your favorite restaurant? Here is an explanation as to why it’s not here.

Everything Else

US First: The Bess & Paul Sigel Hebrew Academy of Greater Hartford
World’s Only: Auer Farm Mushroom Barn
ASME Landmark: Jacob Engine Brake Retarder
CT Underground RR Trail: Francis Gillette House
Griffin Cascades
Van Otterloo Cascade
Dumb Roads of Bloomfield
Balbrae
Spite Barn (Gone)
Fidelco Guide Dogs
Saba Halal Live Poultry
Pepperidge Farm Bakery Outlet Store
The Wilde Building (Cigna)
Wintonbury Flying Club Fly-In

Bloomfield Wrap-Up

I “completed” Bloomfield in 2020 but new and/or previously unknown-to-me CTMQ-worthy places and things open all the time, so a town is never really “complete.” I will, of course, continue to visit and write about these new places and things.

Completion Celebration and Bloomfield Recap with Pandemic Take-out!