Pays Dividends Dividend Pond Falls, Rocky Hill December 2023 Everyone loves a nice waterfall that doesn't require effort to enjoy, right? We have several in Connecticut, and some are near interstate highways in the center of the state. Dividend Pond Falls in Rocky Hill checks all those boxes. You just park, … [Read more...]
Rocky Hill Fire Museum
A Rocky Future? Rocky Hill Fire Museum, Rocky Hill (Google Maps location) October 2024 Connecticut museum visit #525. There it is. Prominently standing tall in front of Rocky Hill's library, Congregational church, senior center, Academy Hall Museum, and town hall. Everyone who passes nearby sees it: The Rocky … [Read more...]
Rocky Hill Meadows/Goff Brook Trail
Goff Brook, not Brooke Goff Great Meadows Conservation Trust's Wood Parcel, Rocky Hill September 2024 Back when I walked around and then wrote about farm road trails just south of here, I said: The "Great Meadows" is very confusing. It is, as I understand it, a large swath of meadow along the Connecticut River … [Read more...]
Glacial Lake Hitchcock Sediment Dam
Hike Here at a Glacial Pace Glacial Lake Hitchcock Sediment Dam, Rocky Hill December 2023 I would guess that Rocky Hill is the most "forgotten" town in the Greater Harford area. It's small and I just never hear about it. Which is a shame, because of course everyone knows about Dinosaur State Park which is … [Read more...]
Dinosaur State Park Arboretum
A Pinetum Among an Aboretum Dinosaur State Park Arboretum/Pinetum February 2024 For my page on the Dinosaur State Park Museum, go here. If you just want the Trackway National Natural Landmark, go here. And if you're here for the trails, go here. Many, many years ago when I listed the arboretums I felt were … [Read more...]
Bulkley Park
Bulkley's Treasure of Bulky Trees Bulkley Park, Rocky Hill December 2023 This sounds weird to say about this patch of woods surrounded on all three inhabitable sides by dense housing, but this 24-acre park along the abandoned Connecticut Valley Railroad has remained untouched for a century; ever since Joseph E. … [Read more...]
Ferry, Great Meadows, & Surwilo Parks
Eh, Nah, Kinda Various Riverside Parcels, Rocky Hill August 2023 You come to Rocky Hill's Ferry Park to do one of three things: Ride the historic Rocky Hill-Glastonbury Ferry, fish, or eat at the little seafood shack that may or may not exist when you read this. You walk north into the Great Meadows to go birding … [Read more...]
Great Meadows Conservation Trust Trails
Great Meadows Conservation Trust Glastonbury, Rocky Hill, Wethersfield South of Hartford the Connecticut River winds through 4500 acres of open land, the Great Meadows of Wethersfield, Rocky Hill and Glastonbury. This floodplain contains rich farmland, a varied habitat for wildlife and the largest freshwater marsh … [Read more...]
Academy Hall Museum
What is a Shad Horn? Rocky Hill (Google Maps location) March 2019 Connecticut museum visit #409. There are a lot of museums in Connecticut with the word "Academy" in their names. Somewhere around 10. You can probably figure out why... there were lots of academies that served a town's children that then became … [Read more...]
Still Hill Brewery
Still Getting New Breweries... Still Still Hill Brewery, Rocky Hill December 2017 In the stilllll of the niiiiiight… Still Hill is a hill in South Glastonbury, CT. In the 1800’s if you stood on Still Hill you could see the whole town of Glastonbury. One of the town’s founding fathers had a working still on … [Read more...]