CTMQ’s Guide to Killingly

Everything Killingly

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” Killingly 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

Killingly Historical Society Museum(s)
Spirol Art Gallery at QVCC

Hikes & Paddles

Killingly Pond State Park
Old Furnace State Park
Quinebaug Lake State Park
North-South Trail section
Ross Pond State Park
Ross Marsh WMA
CFPA’s Old Furnace Trail

Wyndham Land Trust – Intro

Wolf Den Land Trust – Intro

The Rainsford B. Sherman Memorial Forest

Killingly’s Town Trails – Intro

Quinebaug River Kayak

Food & Drink

CT Classic Diner Trail: Zip’s Diner
CT Beer Trail: Black Pond Brews
CT Beer Trail: The Boroughs Brewing Company (Closed)

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

Everything Else

118-Year-old Lemon Tree
Kentuck Ledges
Misty Highland Farm
Devil’s Island
Amarante’s Winter Wonderland
Book Review: Ring in the Dead by J.A. Jance

Killingly Wrap-Up

Completion Celebration Meal at TBD

The iconic Zip’s Diner

Comments

Padraic says
June 16, 2019 at 7:37 pm

Hike update – Old Furnace now has a real (DEEP official) trail map, online and everything. Also the orange trail has been reblazed (and I believe slightly rerouted).

The sign at southern trailhead if the CFPA blue trail on Squaw Rock road is gone, with the official trailhead about 50 feet in. Was hard to see anyway — southern trailhead can be found at the end of the 90 degree turn to the west on Squaw Rock road.

The (former?) Red Trail (shadows the highway) has not, at least yet, been reblazed. I’d love to see it reblazed and extended to the existing trail that loops below the lower pond and over by 695 (the end of the former CT turnpike). Would make a nice official outer loop.