Drizzy Drake The Old Drake Hill Flower Bridge Simsbury I live pretty close to The Old Drake Hill Flower Bridge, so I've been passing by it for two decades. It's just part of my life. However, I'd never bothered to stop and take pictures of it, let alone creating a page on CTMQ dedicated to it. Then a few … [Read more...]
Book Review: Where Water Meets Land
Truss This Book Where Water Meets Land: Historic Moveable Bridges of Connecticut By Bruce Clouette You won't be surprised to learn that I live in this weird world of Connecticut miscellanea. After all, that's all CTMQ is, really. As a result, I've met lots of people with deep interest in Connecticut... stuff. … [Read more...]
The Legacy of the Dexters
There’s A Lot Going on Here Dexter Coffin and the Dexter Company Windsor Locks & East Windsor I drive over the Dexter D. Coffin, Sr. Bridge every day. Many of you probably do as well, whether you know it or not. It is the I-91 bridge that connects Windsor Locks to East Windsor across the Connecticut River. I’ve … [Read more...]
Southford Falls Covered Bridge
In Oxford, Not Southford, Which is in Southbury Southford Falls Covered Bridge Multiple visits There’s a lot going on over at Southford Falls State Park which is almost entirely in Oxford (rather than Southbury). To wit: A waterfall! Trails! Trails again! A Watchtower! And this, a cute little … [Read more...]
The Stack: Ghost Highway Ramps
*For Informational Purposes Only* The Stack, Farmington This page is, um, purely hypothetical. It describes what I'd imagine a visit to the ghost highway ramps of Farmington would be like. First, some very real background. Remember the first three dozen times you drove on I-84 through Farmington and thought to … [Read more...]
TSTL’17.8: Air Line State Park Trail
The Sky's the Limit 2017 Hiking Challenge #8 Air Line State Park Trail (Blackledge River Bridge), Colchester March 25, 2017 In case you weren't aware, the Air Line State Park Trail traverses East Hampton, Colchester, Hebron, Columbia, Lebanon, Windham, Chaplin, Hampton, Pomfret, Putnam, and Thompson. We'd walked … [Read more...]
Beacon Hill Apartments Covered Bridge
Peekin' at the Beacon Beacon Hill Apartments Covered Bridge, Manchester March 2017 The reader response to my last little Manchester covered bridge post was unbelievable. I mean, my friend and coworker brushed past me between the cubicles to say, "I really enjoyed your page about the covered bridge." … [Read more...]
Oak Grove Covered Bridge
Groovin' in the Grove Oak Grove Nature Center Bridge, Manchester January 21, 2017 Our little state continues to surprise me on occasion. We all know about the “big 3” covered bridges (right?) but it’s these little ones that interest me more. Granted, you can’t drive over many of them, but I don’t care. They’re … [Read more...]
A. Frederick Oberlin Bridge
Truss Me, This Bridge is Cool A. Frederick Oberlin Bridge at the Eli Whitney Museum December 6, 2014 This bridge was my introduction to the Eli Whitney Museum and the whole surrounding area at the Hamden/New Haven border. I brought my family to the museum wholly unaware of all the “stuff” around it. Lake Whitney, … [Read more...]
Hole-in-the-Wall Beach Bridge
Choo! Ch-hole The Hole-in-the-Wall Beach Bridge East Lyme I am creating this page because one day, in May 2011, I was poking around the Niantic area of East Lyme. I saw an interpretive sign near here and went to go check it out. Then a train came over this little tunnel, which leads to a semi-public town beach … [Read more...]