Bloomfield’s Town Trails
Bloomfield used to be called Wintonbury, a portmanteau of Win(dsor), (Farming)ton, and (Sims)bury. In fact, the town’s land trust is called the Wintonbury Land Trust and the historical society is called the Wintonbury Historical Society. When you drive around the town, which I happen to do every day, you’ll see the Wintonbury name everywhere. I rather prefer Wintonbury, but I’m not in charge.
For whatever reason, when people from different parts of the state think about Bloomfield, they probably don’t think about hiking or woodland scenes. But Bloomfield is full of woodland scenes! It’s entire western half is more Goshen than Hartford. And when all is said and done, hopefully within my lifetime, hikers will be able to walk from downtown Bloomfield to the New England Trail and the Appalachian Trail! I swear!
My Bloomfield Town Hikes:
Auer Farm Trails
Farmington River Park
Filley Park
LaSalette Open Space
MDC Reservoir 6
M.K. Wilcox Park
Seabury Wildwood Trails
Samuel Wheeler Reed Park
CTMQ’s Guide to Bloomfield
Various maps of Bloomfield
CTMQ’s Town Owned Land Trails
Elaine burke says
October 24, 2021 at 8:05 pmbeautiful place. neverknew about it. what other places in bloomfieldare goodfor walking in nature with cane or walker, what areas are good places to live? looking for a 1 bedroom unit in a non=congested area, preferably residential. would like trees, bushes, grass and flowers and flat places to walk in neighborhood. elderly, but still active and want to be more so. love nature and the out of doors!