CTMQ’s Guide to Lyme

Everything Lyme

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” Lyme CTMQ-style… as well as the other 168 towns, cities, and boroughs in Connecticut. After all, that is the ultimate goal of CTMQ.

What do you know about the town most famous for having a tick-borne disease named – actually, that would be infamous and I think the first Lyme Disease cases diagnosed as such came from Old Lyme, not Lyme… but still, that’s what Lyme is most famous for. You can scroll down for my list of things to do in town. Or, as always, you can click on the town’s tag to see what I’ve done.

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

Museums

42 Social Club
Gillette Castle

Hikes & Paddles

Becket Hill State Park Reserve – no access, no trails
Gillette Castle State Park
Selden Neck State Park
Nehantic State Forest

CFPA: Nayantaquit Trail

Richard H. Goodwin Trail – Intro

Lyme Section

Lyme Land Conservation Trust – Intro

Banningwood Preserve
Beebe Preserve
Brockway-Hawthorne Preserve
Chestnut Hill Preserve
Clucas Field
Eno, Mount Archer, and Pickwick’s Preserves
Honey Hill Preserve
Grassy Hill Preserve
Lyme Corner Trails
Patrell Preserve
Pleasant Valley Preserve
Plimpton Preserve
Roaring Brook Preserve

The Nature Conservancy Trails – Intro

Jewett Preserve
Pleasant Valley Preserve
Selden Creek

Town Trails – Intro

Hartman Park (Lyme Corner Trails)
Jewett Preserve
Mount Archer

Silvio O. Conte National Fish & Wildlife Refuge

Lord Cove Preserve
Whalebone Cove Preserve

Food & Drink

CT Cheese Trail: Beaver Brook Farm
CT Wine Trail: Sunset Hill Vineyard

Everything Else

National Co-Champion Sugar Maple tree
Chester-Hadlyme Ferry
Borgund Stave Church replica
Connecticut River Art Trail Viewpoint
Blood Street
Lyme Green
Moulson Pond Fishway
Ed Bills Pond Fishway
Ferryboat, Betsy & Giulio Maestro

Completion Celebration Meal & Lyme Wrap-Up

TBD; not sure there is a restaurant in Lyme