CTMQ’s Guide to Glastonbury

Everything Glastonbury

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” Glastonbury 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.

Museums

Audubon Center at Glastonbury (Closed)
GEHMS Planetarium
Museum on the Green
Micah House and Chapel at the Thomas Hale Homestead
Tobacco Museum (Potential future museum)
Welles-Shipman-Ward House

Hikes & Bikes

Gay City State Park – Intro

South & Southwest Trails

Meshomasic State Forest – Intro

Other Trails

CFPA’s Shenipsit Trail – Intro

Section 1: What’s all this Shenipsit?
Section 2: A Blistering Pace… A Bloody Failure

CFPA’s Shenipsit Regional Trails – Intro

Gay City Trails

Kongscut Land Trust – Intro

Fern Hollow Preserve
Hollister Preserve/Whitehouse Family Nature Preserve
Swan Estate & Riley Parcel
Zihrup Preserve

Manchester Land Trust – Intro

Bush Hill Farm
Lombardo Farm

Glastonbury’s Town Trails – Intro

Addison Bog
Arbor Acres
Blackledge Falls
Buckingham Park
Buckingham Reservoir/Roaring Brook
Butler Field
Case Mountain Recreational Area Intro and South Trails
Cotton Hollow
Earle Park/Cider Mill/Red Hill
Ferry Landing
Great Pond Preserve
Grayledge Farm
Keeney Cove/Richard Strong Open Space
Matson Hill Open Space
Riverfront Park
Shoddy Mill Preserve
Williams Park

Multi-Use/Rail Trails

Bell-Hebron Linear Park
Salmon Brook Trail

Food & Drink

CT Ice Cream Trail: Robb’s Farm
CT Wine Trail: Crystal Ridge Winery
CT Wine Trail: Joseph Preli Farm Winery
CT Beer Trail: Hops and the Hill Farm Brewery
CT Cider Trail: Deercrest Farm

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

Everything Else

National Historic Landmark: Kimberly Mansion
US Oldest: The Old Cider Mill
US Oldest: Rocky Hill-Glastonbury Ferry
US First: Bible Translation by a Woman
National Champion: Serviceberry Tree (Former)
National Champion: Poison Sumac (Former)
National Champion: Striped Maple Tree (Former)
CT Underground Railroad Trail: Kimberly Mansion
Blackledge Falls
Cotton Hollow Cascades
Flat Brook Falls
Al E. Gator Rock
Riverview Farms
Toggy the Two-Headed Goat (Gone)
Cotton Hollow Mill Ruins
Abandoned Gas Station Pillars
The Route 2 Culverts
The Peach King & Arbor Acres Farm (Gone)
Everett Hurlburt House
Cedar Bridge House
A Cardinal House Model Trains
Billy Joel’s “The River of Dreams” video
Glastonbury, Border Town

Glastonbury Wrap-Up

Completion Celebration TBD