Hiking Sessions Session Woods WMA Multiple hikes You know what the most ridiculous thing you’ll read today is? This: I don’t think anyone else has ever used “Hiking Sessions” as a title for a description of hiking at Sessions Woods. What the heck is wrong with people? Is there really any other title for … [Read more...]
West Rock Nature Center Trails
"C'mon D!" West Rock Nature Center, New Haven January 18, 2014 If you're poked around this site a bit more than the average visitor, you may know that I am drawn to quirky and odd things that seem incongruous to me. I've written here and there about the various oddities in and around West Rock Park. Things … [Read more...]
Roaring Brook Nature Center Trails
Roaring Brook Nature Center Trails Nature Center/State Land, Canton August 18 & October 22, 2013 The worst thing about hiking these trails? Easy: the word “roaring” puts that new (at the time of this writing) Katy Perry song about “roaring like a tiger” in your head to drive you nuts as you walk through the … [Read more...]
SLT: Stratton Brook State Park
Stratton Brook State Park Simsbury Land Trust/State Park October 27, 2013 I’ve been to Stratton Brook a bunch of times, but only to take Damian sunning and swimming at the pond over there. (Back when the State Park Passes weren’t absurdly expensive, this was our go-to summer swimming hole since it’s so close to … [Read more...]
CLCT: Arnold Preserve
Arnold Property Canton Land Conservation Trust October 23, 2013 I’m going to publish this page more or less “as-is” simply to illustrate something. This past weekend (late October, 2013) I decided to go ahead and create new and separate pages for all the different types of Non-CFPA trails. I have pages for Land … [Read more...]
140. White Memorial Conservation Center Nature Museum
Stuff White People Like Litchfield (Google Maps location) October 3, 2009 Yet again, I’m forced to remind anyone reading this that there are plenty of things to do in Connecticut, year-round - and with kids. When people think of Litchfield, they almost universally think of the town green, the beautiful church … [Read more...]
170. Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center
PequotsePossibly a Bit Too Expensive Stonington (Google Maps location) May 22, 2010 There are maybe 25 or so nature centers around the state and they are all pretty much the same. I’m not saying that as a knock on them, as I love each and every one. Some are certainly better than others, of course, and the … [Read more...]
Sherwood Island State Park
Sherwood Island State Park Westport Now you’d think that when I listed my top five Connecticut state parks that they’d all be up in the northwest hills. And even though I’ve never thought about such a list, you’d probably be 80% right. But I think there is a good chance that Sherwood Island would sneak onto that … [Read more...]
175. Sherwood Island State Park Nature Center
Wanna Go to the Nature Center? I Sher Wood! Westport (Google Maps location) July 18, 2010 I purposely waited until autumn to write about Sherwood Island. I figure that anyone looking for a very clean, uncrowded and very pretty beach in Connecticut won’t find this now that it’s too cold to hit the beach. Even … [Read more...]
163. Audubon Greenwich
Where Goldfinches are Made of Real Gold Greenwich (Google Maps location) May 8, 2010 [2018 Note: I will likely do a rare revisit of this place. I still have to hike its trails, and will likely have Calvin with me, and he'd enjoy it. It's so nice that I think you'll agree - better pictures are … [Read more...]