A Flipping Success Middlesex Land Trust's Brainerd Quarry Preserve, Haddam October 2024 This is the 3,254th page I've published on CTMQ and I believe it's the very first time I've done a specific thing. I've stolen a punny title from someone else. In this case, something called the Connecticut River Gateway … [Read more...]
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State Parks, Reserves, Preserves, Forests, NAPs, WMAs, & Campsites
State Highpointing Intro
Why State Highpointing?
Land Trust Trails
Connecticut Hiking Challenges & Rewards
CFPA Trails & The Blue Trails Challenge
Town Owned Trails
Peakbagging Tallies
Highpointing and Peak-Bagging Intro
Wintergreen Woods
Chew on This Wintergreen Woods, Wethersfield December 2024 This trail is bonkers. Well, that's not true. This trail is decidedly not bonkers. But what IS bonkers is the fact that you can go, right now, and read a 7,000 word essay on this trail. This 0.7 mile flat loop trail in the middle of suburban … [Read more...]
Frank P. Witek Memorial Park
Building Bridges Frank P. Witek Memorial Park, Derby & Ansonia December 2024 Like many things in Derby, the trails here cross over into a neighboring town. Derby is tiny. Derby cannot be contained to itself. Derby's gonna Derb. Let's hike. I guess technically Witek Park is just the Derby half of this hike. The … [Read more...]
Wagner Woods & Hall farm
Nature Show Simsbury Land Trust's Wagner Woods, Simsbury September 2013 & November 2024 The Hall Farm parcel was added to Wagner Woods after I first published this page. I hiked the new parcel 11 years later. Wagner Woods I'll apologize up front. This is one of those pages that I put together for me and my … [Read more...]
Highlawn Forest
Herbert's Way is the Only Way CFPA's Highlawn Forest, Middlefield & Middletown April 2009 & November 2023 No one would complain if I just ignored my "hike" here in 2009 as it was maybe a third of a mile total. Back then, the trails here weren't trails as much as they were demonstrations of how the CFPA trails … [Read more...]
Old Canal Way Trail
So Much Canal Old Canal Way Trail, Simsbury November 2024 99,999 times out of 100,000 times you mention the Canal Trail in Simsbury, people will assume you're talking about the Farmington Canal Heritage Trail. And, frankly, 99,999 times out of 100,000 times people mention the Canal Trail in Simsbury, they are … [Read more...]
Brodie Park
Bro Code Brodie Park (South) Trails, New Hartford October 2024 West Hill Lake straddles the Barkhamsted-New Hartford line, but is mostly in New Hartford. West and southwest of it lie two scout camps: Sequassen and Workcoeman. West of them is West West Hill Road and east of the lake is, of course East West Hill … [Read more...]
Naugatuck River Greenway
Naugy Bikey Naugatuck River Greenway, 44 Miles 11 Towns in The Valley It's currently January 1st, 2025 and very little of this ambitious planned trail has been actualized. And, frustratingly, it will apparently never be one continuous trail, even if everything comes to fruition. But I needed an intro … [Read more...]
Simsbury Farms Fitness Trail
I Enjoy Fitness... Simsbury Farms Fitness Trail, Simsbury November 2024 My son used to have a t-shirt that said "I Enjoy Fitness..." then a picture of a taco, then... "Fitness Taco in my Mouth." It always cracked me up. Anyhoo... There are dozens of these fitness trails around the state. At least there were at … [Read more...]
Boyd Woods
Oh Boyd! Litchfield Hills Audubon Society's Boyd Woods, Litchfield November 2024 Another year, another random Litchfield trail hiked on the day I pick up our turkey from Bunnell Farm for Thanksgiving. The turkey for which I drive the 45 minutes west, pay ten times what others pay for their frozen Butterball, curse … [Read more...]
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