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CTMQ > CTMQ Town Guides > CTMQ’s Guide to Ellington

CTMQ’s Guide to Ellington

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Everything Ellington

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” Ellington 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 Ellington Stuff

Links take you to my reports

Museums

Hall Memorial Library History Room & Exhibits
Nellie E. McKnight Museum

Hikes

Shenipsit State Forest

CFPA’s Shenipsit Trail – Intro

    Section 4: SHHhhhhhhenipsit
    Section 5: ShenipThat’sIt!*

Hockanum River Watershed Association Trails – Intro

    Windemere Avenue Trail
    Franklin Street Trail
    West Road Trail

Northern Connecticut Land Trust Trails – Intro

    Ernie Boothroyd Nature Preserve
    Sunset Hill
    Swann Farm
    Wraight Property

Ellington’s Town Trails – Intro

    Batz Property
    Kimball Trail

    Metcalf Preserve

Food & Drink

CT Beer Trail: Cold Creek Brewery & Tavern
CT Mead Trail: Nordic Moon Meadery
CT Spirits Trail: Connecticut Valley Distillery (Closed)

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

Everything Else

US Oldest: Samuel Knight roadside marker
The Crazy Shape of Ellington
Aborn Castle
Giant Goofy Chair at Kloter Farms
The Scandinavian Gift Shop

Ellington Wrap-Up

I “completed” Ellington in early 2019 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 Ellington Recap at The Chuck Wagon Restaurant!

Aborn Castle


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Filed Under: CTMQ Town Guides, New Post Tagged With: Ellington, Tolland County

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Comments

  1. Twelve Mile Circle says

    March 25, 2019 at 3:11 pm

    What’s up with that long protrusion to the east?

  2. Steve says

    March 25, 2019 at 6:19 pm

    I’ve searched for an answer to that question – so far to no avail. My guess is that it was some concession in the water-powered days to allow the town access to the Willimantic River, which is its far eastern border.

  3. Twelve Mile Circle says

    March 25, 2019 at 8:24 pm

    Ah yes, I see that now that I drill down on Google Maps. Oddly, there doesn’t seem to be any evidence of people living along that particular stretch of River Road today… whatever advantage it offered in colonial times seems to no longer exist.

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