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175. Sherwood Island State Park Nature Center

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175.  Sherwood Island State Park Nature Center

Wanna Go to the Nature Center? I Sher Wood! Westport (Google Maps location) July 18, 2010 CTMQ's Sherwood Island State Park Intro 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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, State Parks, Reserves, Preserves, Forests, NAPs, WMAs, & Campsites Tagged With: Birds, Damian, Fairfield County, Free Museums, Nature Centers, Sherwood Island State Park, Westport

163. Audubon Greenwich

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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...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Animals, audubon, Birds, Fairfield County, Firsts Onlies and Oldests, Greenwich, Natural History, Nature Centers

113. Audubon Society Center at Fairfield

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113. Audubon Society Center at Fairfield

Are You Peregrinning at Me? Fairfield (Google Maps Location) June 13, 2009 “Happy Holidays! Merry Open House Day!” Why does everybody look at me funny when I shout that out on the second Saturday of June every year? After all, Connecticut Open House Day is one of the greatest days of the entire year. What is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Animals, audubon, Birds, Fairfield, Fairfield County, Free Museums, Natural History, Nature Centers

101. Action Wildlife Foundation

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101. Action Wildlife Foundation

Lights! Camera! Action Wildlife! Um... Camera? Goshen (Google Maps Location) April 25, 2009 This website depends mightily on pictures. Even though they are generally terrible, they give those who just scan these long-winded posts something to look at, I actually use them to frame the story. Since I hardly ever … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Biology & Geology, Museums Tagged With: Animals, BEARS!, Birds, Children's Museums, Damian, Goshen, Hoang, Litchfield County, Nature Centers, Outdoor Museums, Zoos

129. Flanders Nature Center

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129. Flanders Nature Center

Sadly, No Rod or Todd in Sight Woodbury (Google Maps Location) July 24, 2009 Casual readers of CTMQ can be forgiven for thinking all of our adventures with Damian are wonderfully happy little trips through the tulips. Unfortunately, this is not always the case - I tend to focus on the good stuff here and of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Animals, Damian, flanders land trust, Free Museums, Litchfield County, Natural History, Nature Centers, Woodbury

98. New Britain Youth Museum/ Hungerford Park

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98. New Britain Youth Museum/ Hungerford Park

We Hunger Ford More Youth Museum! Kensington/Berlin (Google Maps Location) April 15, 2009 Update: This place is now known as Hungerford Nature Center. Tax day. And what could be more taxing than corralling Damian at a museum without Hoang to lend a hand? (Eh, it's not that hard. It was just a good turn of a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Animals, BEARS!, Berlin, Birds, Children's Museums, Damian, Hartford County, Natural History, Nature Centers, Outdoor Museums, Town History

128. Brookfield Nature Center and Rock Museum

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128. Brookfield Nature Center and Rock Museum

Hellooooo Broooookfield! Brookfield (Google Maps Location) July 20, 2009 I'd recently been doing some hikes out in western Connecticut in the New Milford-Brookfield-Bridgewater area. I'd stumbled upon a few heretofore unknown museums on my forays back home in Roxbury and Woodbury - pretty much the most exciting … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Brookfield, Fairfield County, Free Museums, Nature Centers, Not Really a Museum Museum, Outdoor Museums

122. Stratton Brook State Park Nature Center

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122. Stratton Brook State Park Nature Center

At least I saw a Water Scorpion Simsbury (Google Maps location) July 5, 2009 At one point I think I had a plan to visit all the state parks in Connecticut and blog about them too. Who knows, maybe I will someday but it's not on the docket right now. Through my hikes and general curiosity I'll be hitting a ton … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, State Parks, Reserves, Preserves, Forests, NAPs, WMAs, & Campsites Tagged With: Damian, Hartford County, Hoang, Nature Centers, Simsbury, stratton brook state park

102. CT Audubon Society Center at Pomfret

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102. CT Audubon Society Center at Pomfret

Don't Fret; A Title Pun is in the Pom of my Hands... Pomfret (Google Maps Location) May 17, 2009 I'm pretty certain we are the only family who gets in their car, drives up and down hills for an hour east to Pomfret in order to check out a small Audubon Society nature center. After all, there are larger Audubon and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: audubon, Birds, Damian, Free Museums, Hoang, Nature Centers, Pomfret, Windham County

87. Sessions Woods Educational Center

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87. Sessions Woods Educational Center

Burlington Fur Coat Factory? Burlington (Google Maps Location) February 18, 2009 With Damian in the midst of a week long "Winter Break" from preschool, I can take him wherever I darn well please. Today, it was Sessions Woods Nature Center; the only nature center I'm aware of in Connecticut that is closed on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: BEARS!, Birds, Burlington, Damian, Free Museums, Hartford County, Natural History, Nature Centers, sessions woods wma, State WMA

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