The Sky's the Limit 2017 Hiking Challenge #10 Gillette Castle State Park, East Haddam & Lyme April 8, 2017 Lazy/tired/illiterate readers, you’re going to like this page. I don’t really plan on writing too much at all. Me? Not write way too much? That’s right. After all, I’ve written about Gillette … [Read more...]
Keyhole Tunnel
Vernon’s Keyhole Tunnel Tunnel Road, Vernon I’ve driven through it dozens of times over the years and never gave it much thought. But now that I'm "completing" Vernon CTMQ-style, I figure I'll write about it. So, after going through it several more times while hitting every little trailed property in town, I … [Read more...]
TSTL’17.2: Bolton Notch Tunnel
The Sky's the Limit 2017 Hiking Challenge #2 Bolton Notch State Park, Bolton February 19, 2017 We were so emboldened by yesterday's 2017 TSTL kick-off hike that we decided to do another one the very next day. I drove the boys up to Bolton Notch State Park; a place I'd been to a few times before. I mention … [Read more...]
Gillette Castle State Park Train Tunnel
No Isht Sherlock Gillette Castle State Park Train Trail Tunnel, East Haddam August 10, 2014 See also: 2017 hike around the park (with tunnel again!) “There is nothing like first-hand evidence.” Sherlock Holmes in A Study in Scarlet Indeed. With so few tunnels in our small state, I can certainly … [Read more...]
Hole-in-the-Wall Beach Bridge
Choo! Ch-hole The Hole-in-the-Wall Beach Bridge East Lyme I am creating this page because one day, in May 2011, I was poking around the Niantic area of East Lyme. I saw an interpretive sign near here and went to go check it out. Then a train came over this little tunnel, which leads to a semi-public town beach … [Read more...]
Heroes (West Rock) Tunnel
Heroes Tunnel (a.k.a. West Rock Tunnel) New Haven Regicides Trail above, Wilbur Cross Parkway below The Regicides Trail traverses the ridge above the well-known tunnel on the Wilbur Cross Parkway. When I was just gaining a love for long distance trail hiking as a young Boy Scout, we hiked a section of the … [Read more...]
New York Route 120A
New York Takes Its Empire State Thing Seriously A Drive Along NY 120A – In Connecticut May 8, 2010 2012 Update at bottom! Oh I hear you... “Really? Steve… Really?” Of course, many of you say that all the time while reading this site. But then again, you have now read the opening sentences of this page, so … [Read more...]
Devil’s Garden Rd, Norwalk
You better watch out. There is also a small area of woods in this very densely populated area called Devil's Garden Open Space. I didn't see any trails or signage for that though, but it's so small you can see the houses through to the other side. Or maybe that's the illusion of safety the Prince of Darkness … [Read more...]
Towers, Bridges, Forts, Tunnels, Roads, Canals, Dams, Fishways, Airports, & Ferries
Civil Engineering I don’t think I need to write an explanatory intro for this page. It is exactly what it says it is. And it's awesome. Jump down to: Observation Towers and Views Bridges, Covered and Otherwise Forts, Canals, Dams, Levees, & Fishways Highways, Roads & Tunnels Airports & Ferries … [Read more...]
Hell Hollow Road & Pond
Everything's Gone to Hell Griswold, Voluntown & Sterling This is one of Satan's favorite haunts here in Connecticut. Surely because of the road's unique name and rather dicey twists and turns, the ding-dongs who believe in such things pretend that spirits haunt this road. Anyone who knows me knows what I think of … [Read more...]