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GNH: Long Wharf Nature Preserve

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GNH: Long Wharf Nature Preserve

Gather 'Round Kids Gather New Haven's Long Wharf Nature Preserve June 2019 For those of you that read all my hiking pages, I'm about to sound like a broken record: I love urban trails. Yes, of course, there really no better way to spend a crisp autumn day in Connecticut than traipsing up and down mountains in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, Land Trust Hikes, New Post Tagged With: Birds, Calvin, Gather New Haven, Hikes with my Boys, New Haven, New Haven County

SLT: Tanager Hill

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SLT: Tanager Hill

Blazes Appropriately Scarlet Simsbury Land Trust's Tanager Hill Property, Simsbury April 2020 Imagine Connecticut without the Metacomet Ridge that rises right up like a reptilian spine through the middle of the state. No Sleeping Giant, no Castle Craig, no Heublein Tower... no Talcott Mountain and no Penwood State … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, Land Trust Hikes, New Post Tagged With: Calvin, Hartford County, Hikes with my Boys, lasalette trail, Simsbury, Simsbury Land Trust

BLT: Edith Toomey Clark Property

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BLT: Edith Toomey Clark Property

EDITH! Edith Toomey Clark Property, Bolton April 2020 I would confidently state that no one hikes this property without hiking the Rose Trail at the historic Bolton Heritage Farm. There is another way to access the trails here, but that would mean walking along the Hop River State Park Trail, which, now that I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, Land Trust Hikes, New Post Tagged With: Bolton, bolton land trust, Calvin, Hikes with my Boys, Tolland County

SLT: Owen-Mortimer Trail

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SLT: Owen-Mortimer Trail

You'll Owen Me For This One Simsbury Land Trust's Owen-Mortimer Trail, Simsbury April 2020 This little blue-blazed trail could/should... will be important someday. More on that in a minute. I parked in a little pull-out on East Weatogue Street even though there's a true hiker's lot just south of there. Let … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, Land Trust Hikes, New Post Tagged With: Calvin, Hartford County, Hikes with my Boys, Simsbury, Simsbury Land Trust

Paul Ode Trail & Fred Wolfe Park

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Paul Ode Trail & Fred Wolfe Park

An Ode to a Wolfe Paul Ode Trail & Fred Wolfe Park Trails, Orange January 2020 Ah yes, January 2020. Temperature in the 60's, whispers of some new virus in the hinterlands of China... not a care in the world. Such innocent times. And what better to do than head down to Orange for some quick walks around the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, New Post, Town Land Hikes Tagged With: Calvin, Hikes with my Boys, New Haven County, Orange

LaSalette Open Space

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LaSalette Open Space

On a Mission LaSalette Open Space, Bloomfield July 2019 & April 2020 I've seen this place called LaSalette Park as much as LaSalette Open Space. Get it together Bloomfield. The property bumps up against the Wintonbury Land Trust's Hawk Hill Farm property and the maps of both sort of bleed over into each other. Get … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, New Post, Town Land Hikes Tagged With: Bloomfield, Calvin, Hartford County, Hikes with my Boys, lasalette trail

Bates Nature Trail at Herrick Park

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Bates Nature Trail at Herrick Park

Mastering Bates Herrick Park, Bolton April 2020 I keep an ongoing list of CTMQ stuff for each town that none of you can see. On Bolton's list, I had something like, "a trail at Herrick park." Then when I put the Bolton Town Guide together, I searched the internet high and low for confirmation that there was a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, New Post, Town Land Hikes Tagged With: Bolton, Calvin, Hikes with my Boys, Tolland County

BLT: Blackledge Marsh

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BLT: Blackledge Marsh

Cul-de-Quick Blackledge Marsh, Bolton April 2020 When I decide to "attack" a town's trail system, I make a little game out of it. Look at the list of trails, sort out where they are and how many I can do in one trip, and make a plan. However, when I have Calvin with me, I must sometimes change things on the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, Land Trust Hikes, New Post Tagged With: Bolton, bolton land trust, Calvin, Hikes with my Boys, Tolland County

BLT: Castlerock Lane

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BLT: Castlerock Lane

Man in a High Castle Castlerock Lane, Bolton April 2020 There are expensive homes in pretty much every town in Connecticut. I've seen many. I think everyone assumes this to be true, but I also think there are large swaths who would be surprised to know that there are sprawling massive houses in southern Bolton … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, Land Trust Hikes, New Post Tagged With: Bolton, bolton land trust, Calvin, Hikes with my Boys, Tolland County

LaSalette Trail

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LaSalette Trail

Ideas are Blooming LaSalette Trail, 6.6 miles Bloomfield & Simsbury At the time of this writing, I have no idea when the gaps in the LaSalette Trail will be closed - or even if they officially will be someday. Nor do I care, really. Such is my excitement for this trail that I'm forging ahead with hiking it and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, Land Trust Hikes, New Post, Town Land Hikes Tagged With: Bloomfield, Calvin, Hartford County, Hikes with my Boys, lasalette trail, penwood state park, Simsbury, Simsbury Land Trust, wintonbury land trust

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