A Totally Worthington Bridge Worthington Pond Farm Covered Bridge, Somers December 2016 Shortly before I first visited this rather large and pretty covered bridge, Worthington Farm was... a farm. But at some point in the 21st century, Dan Roulier bought and developed the property into a private park of sorts. I'm … [Read more...]
Shenipsit State Forest Intro
Shenipsit State Forest Ellington, Somers, and Stafford Shenipsit State Forest began in 1927 with the purchase of land at the summit of Soapstone Mountain in Somers to erect a fire tower to keep a lookout over the forests of the eastern woodlands. Over time, additional acreage was purchased to form the sprawling … [Read more...]
CTMQ’s Guide to Somers
Everything Somers 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” Somers CTMQ-style... as well as the other 168 towns, cities, and boroughs in Connecticut. That is the ultimate goal of CTMQ. If I’ve … [Read more...]
Somers’ Town Trails
Somers' Town Trails Shout out to the Somers town government for putting a good amount of hiking info on their town's website. Much of it is Northern Connecticut Land Trust info and maps, but that's still a good thing. The difficulty comes when trying to parse which properties are Somers', which are the NCLT's, and … [Read more...]
Scantic River State Park (Scitico/East)
More Than Scant Remains Scantic River State Park, Enfield/Somers ~2 miles of mish-mashing around, November 2016 & February 2017 I’ve been procrastinating on writing up my treks in Scantic River State Park for a while. Simply put, it’s all a bit confusing. Parts of it are called Scantic River Linear Park. Some … [Read more...]
Scantic River State Park Intro
Scantic River State Park Enfield, Somers, East Windsor Scantic River State Park Hazardville/West Section, Enfield Scitico/East Section, Enfield & Somers East Windsor Section Connecticut’s state forests are often parceled out over many acres in many towns. But our state parks are, for the most part, … [Read more...]
TSTL’15.6: Soapstone Mountain Tower
The Sky's the Limit 2015 Hiking Challenge #6 Soapstone Mountain (Shenipsit State Forest) Somers, June 20, 2015 Updates: In late 2018, the state replaced this rick-rack tower, so there will be another page on this tower for the new one. There was an older page about it from when I hiked through here on the … [Read more...]
Northern Connecticut Land Trust Intro
Northern Connecticut Land Trust East Windsor, Ellington, Enfield, Somers, Stafford/Stafford Springs, Tolland, Vernon My first thought as I begin to tackle this Land Trust is, “Holy crap, that’s a lot of land in trust.” My second thought is, “cool, these should be trails I can bang out with my sons.” We just … [Read more...]
Shenipsit Trail: Section 5
Section 5: ShenipThat'sIt!* Ellington/Somers/Stafford ~ 8 miles May 16, 2010 *The title implies that this section completed the Shenipsit. That later became inaccurate, for as you'll read, the northern end was extended. This just didn’t seem right. A hike on the Shenipsit – my final one – with good weather! … [Read more...]
62. Somers Historical Society Museum
Somerstime, and the Livin' is Easy Somers (Google Maps Location) June 28, 2008 My visit up to Somers was perhaps one of my most random forays ever done for this website. One fine Saturday I remember just putting Damian down to nap and telling Hoang I had to just "go." When you have a special needs child and … [Read more...]