Roaring Through the Woods Dinosaur State Park Trails, Rocky Hill February 2016 & 2024 I walked a bit of the Blue Trail with my boys here as part of the Sky's The Limit Challenge in 2016 and I returned 8 years later to walk the rest of the trails. For my page on the Dinosaur State Park Museum, go here. If you just … [Read more...]
The Sky’s the Limit 2016 Hiking Challenge
This is DEEP, Man (Again) Connecticut State Parks “The Sky’s the Limit” 2016 Hiking Challenge Back again for another year! Fortunately for you, you don't have to read any longwinded introduction this year! For that, all you have to do is read what I wrote about the inaugural year's challenge here. The DEEP even … [Read more...]
Wintonbury Flying Club
Fly me to the Moon Wintonbury Flying Club Fly-In, Bloomfield September 2015 You can take a nice hike around this place too. I won't pretend for one second to understand the first thing about the world of giant radio controlled airplanes. All I know is that a bunch of people love this hobby, some of the planes … [Read more...]
Speer Preserve
Speer Fishing Speer Preserve, Bloomfield February 2016 This is a Traprock Ridge Land Conservancy Property. Yes, I know that it's easy to use the Speer Preserve in Bloomfield as an alternative jumping off point to get up to the Heublein Tower and Metacomet Trail points beyond. And I totally suggest you do that … [Read more...]
Auerfarm State Park Scenic Reserve
”Oww-er, It’s Cold” Auerfarm Trail, Bloomfield January 5, 2016 All Things Auer Farm So far, the winter of 2015-16 has been absurdly mild. Mid-60’s on Christmas Eve and nearly 60-degrees today, at the end of January. In fact, it’s only been truly cold maybe two days so far this winter. So of course I went … [Read more...]
Samuel Wheeler Reed Park
Wheel on By This One Samuel Wheeler Reed Park, Bloomfield April 25, 2015 Bloomfield has a surprising amount of parks, parkland, land trust property, and the like. This is probably "surprising" because people think Bloomfield is way more urban than it actually is. Sure, it sits atop Hartford and shares some urban … [Read more...]
Dodge Paddock/Beal Preserve
Couldn’t Dodge Sandy Dodge Paddock/Beal Preserve , Stonington May 16, 2015 This post pretty much represents everything I love about these particular tiny little land trust properties – and every reason why I continue exploring them and writing about them. This little place is only 3.68 acres. The “hike” on the … [Read more...]
Enders Island
This Is It: The Enders Enders Island, Mystic May 16, 2015 Every once in a while I'm tasked with writing a page that I find difficult to write for reasons that may surprise you. In this case, it's because Enders Island is a confusing, strange, stunningly beautiful, relatively unknown, mixed bag of a place - with a … [Read more...]
Mystic Aquarium
Lion(fish) and Tiger(sharks), Oh My! Mystic section of Stonington (Google Maps Location) October 11, 2007, etc. I've been to the Aquarium a few times since the initial visit that most of this page is based upon - and have gained a greater appreciation for it over the years. In 2016, I fixed up the pictures here a … [Read more...]
WLT: Farnam Field
Um, Kestrels are Really Cool Farnam Field, .5 mile, Wallingford Land Trust January 16, 2015 I have no idea when you're reading this, but for some reason, once I started doing these little Wallingford Land Trust hikes, they've received way more interest than I'd ever thought possible. So I'm just going to keep on … [Read more...]
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