Northwest Connecticut Land Conservancy
Brookfield, Danbury, Kent, Litchfield, New Fairfield, New Milford, Newtown, Sharon, & Sherman
Up until 2020, there existed a bunch of land trusts in northwest Connecticut that no longer exist: The New Fairfield Land Trust, The Land Trust of Danbury, The Brookfield Land Trust, The Naromi Land Trust, and the Weanitogue Land Trust. In 2019, the Brookfield Land Trust was absorbed by the Weanitogue Land Trust. In 2020, The now-expanded Weanitogue and Naromi Land Trusts combined to form the Northwest Connecticut Land Conservancy. And in late 2020, I caught on and am updating everything on CTMQ to reflect this change. Just like how when the Danbury and New Fairfield Land Trusts combined to form Candlewood Valley Regional Land Trust but then they all merged with the Northwest Connecticut Land Trust in 2025! So much smart regionalizatoin in land trust land… maybe it will happen at the state level some day.
Hadlow Farm, Sherman
I am a proponent of regionalization and strongly believe that Connecticut shouldn’t have 169 towns with 169 independent governments. While keeping up with these thing on this website isn’t easy, how can I complain when a slew of our land trusts do the smart thing and “regionalize?” In doing so, the NCLC is now huge. Weanitogue was already huge, so these guys oversee a lot of land and numerous trails and their history goes back to 1965 and, and, and… I’m excited to explore more of what they have.
The Preserves/Hikes:
Brookfield
Birch Rocks and Pratt Glen Preserves
Kahlo Preserve
The Ledges
Danbury
Barnard, Schwab, and Wiedel Preserves
Nazzaro Preserve
Kent
Alice McCallister Memorial Sanctuary
Cobble Brook Vista Preserve
Cobble Mountain
Litchfield
New Fairfield
Finn’s Land and Demento Preserves
Gateway Conservation Area (Potential future trail)
Hahlawah Preserve
Hidden Valley Nature Center
Komlo Preserve
Shortwoods Brook Aquifer Preservation Area (Potential future trail)
Sweetcake Mountain PreserveSweetcake Mountain Preserve
Titicus Mountain Preserve
New Milford
Candlewood Mountain
Hunt Hill Farm Trail
Kahn Preserve
Mount Tom Preserve
Strauss Morrissey Preserve
Tory’s Cave & The Eleanor and Howard Hunt Nature Preserve
Newtown
Henry Pond Brook Preserve
Sharon
Surdan Mountain Preserve (Potential future trail)
Wildwoods Nature Preserve
Sherman
Brookland and Josephson Preserves
Hadlow Preserve
Herrick Preserve
Irene’s Woods Preserve
Mallory Preserve
Strauss Morrissey Preserve
Towner Hill Preserve
West Briggs Hill
Wimisink Preserve
Northwest Connecticut Land Conservancy
CTMQ’s Guide to Brookfield
CMTQ’s Guide to Danbury
CMTQ’s Guide to Kent
CTMQ’s Guide to Litchfield
CTMQ’s Guide to New Fairfield
CTMQ’s Guide to New Milford
CTMQ’s Guide to Newtown
CTMQ’s Guide to Sharon
CTMQ’s Guide to Sherman
CTMQ’s Land Trust Trails
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