Mining the Depths for This Website Cobalt Post Office, East Hampton Pro-tip: If a town is linked on CTMQ, it's a real town. If it's not, it's not. I used to get all fired up when people would say certain non-towns were towns in Connecticut. I'm mostly over that now with a few exceptions: I'm looking at you … [Read more...]
Rule of 3 Brewing
Three is the Magic Number East Hampton January 2023 The post-COVID slowdown of new Connecticut breweries was allayed a bit in August 2022 by Rule of 3 Brewing in East Hampton. And of course I'm here to write about my experiences at the corrugated steel clad brewery. The usual "I had these beers and here's the … [Read more...]
Hurd State Park
Ya Hurd Hurd State Park, East Hampton Hurd is pretty much just a straight up state park on some hills along the Connecticut River. Although, it is one of the few state parks that allows boaters to camp, so that's cool. The park is named for the Hurd family, who came to the region from Massachusetts in 1710. … [Read more...]
Fat Orange Cat Brewing (Closed)
FOC! (It's Closed) Fat Orange Cat Brewing Company, East Hampton Multiple Visits The brewery closed its taproom in December 2021, moving the entire operation to a contract at Twelve Percent Brewing Project in North Haven. FOC was located in a quiet residential section of East Hampton. FOC always closed … [Read more...]
Meshomasic State Forest Intro
Meshomasic State Forest Colchester, East Hampton, Portland, Glastonbury, Hebron, & Marlborough I can't promise you that this page will ever be complete. Yes, I like to be thorough and almost always am, but when it comes to the Mesh... it's tough. It's big and it's sprawling, sure, but most importantly it contains … [Read more...]
Salmon River State Forest Intro
Salmon River State Forest Colchester, East Hampton, East Haddam, Hebron, & Marlborough For some crazy reason I decided to start creating these introduction pages for any of our state parks and forests that require more than one page on the site. It makes sense for lots of them, for they may have a CFPA trail along … [Read more...]
Air Line State Park Trail Intro
Air Line... NOT "Airline!" 58.5 Miles, Portland, East Hampton, Colchester, Hebron, Columbia, Lebanon, Windham, Chaplin, Hampton, Pomfret, Portland, Putnam, Thompson My title above is for one Mr. Peter Marteka who is enamored with this particular trail to an unhealthy degree. Envisioned as a high speed passenger … [Read more...]
East Hampton’s Town Trails
East Hampton's Town Trails I'm sorry you've somehow found yourself on this page, for there are no East Hampton-owned properties with trails as far as I know. If I'm wrong, please contact me or comment below. There are properties to hike in the town, just not town-owned ones. I suppose you could walk around … [Read more...]
CTMQ’s Guide to East Hampton
Everything East Hampton 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” East Hampton CTMQ-style... as well as the other 168 towns, cities, and boroughs in Connecticut. That is the ultimate goal of CTMQ. … [Read more...]
Middlesex Land Trust Trails
Middlesex Land Trust Trails Cromwell, Durham, East Hampton, Middlefield, Middletown, Portland and Haddam Hoo boy. This one’s a doozy. While I completely understand that it is nigh impossible for little land trusts to keep and maintain a nice website that allows the few who care to easily tease out the trailed … [Read more...]