Killingworth Land Conservation Trust Killingworth is known to me as “the town I cut through to get to Madison.” Of course, Connecticut is often derided as the state one must cut through to get to New York or Boston. And that annoys me, so apologies to the fine folks of Killingworth. On those cut-throughs, I … [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
HLT: Laurel Marsh
Hardy and Laurel Harwinton Land Trust: Laurel MarshMay 6, 2018 I’m going to do a rare thing here in Harwinton. I hiked all seven currently trailed properties on one (rainy) morning, so I’m going to sort of serialize the write-ups. If for some reason you want to start at the beginning, go here, to the Kalmia … [Read more...]
Kalmia Sanctuary
Keep Kalmia and Carry On Litchfield Hills Audubon Society's Kalmia Sanctuary, Harwinton May 2018 Since my visit, the LHAS has added a substantially longer trail. I will return someday to complete it. I'm going to do a rare thing here in Harwinton. I hiked all seven currently trailed properties on one (rainy) … [Read more...]
Rocky Hill’s Town Trails
Rocky Hill’s Town Trails Rocky Hill sounds like a town that would provide lots of difficult hiking opportunities. Alas, Rocky Hill is neither rocky nor hilly. Go figure. In fact, the defining natural feature of Rocky Hill is the Connecticut River. But there was an active quarry here that was (and is) decidedly … [Read more...]
New Hartford’s Town Trails
New Hartford’s Town Trails This page was a tough one to cobble together. The confusing nexus of the local land trust – which owns a lot of land but not many trails, a national land trust – who buys land and then turns it over to... the town, I think, in this case anyway... and then the land actually owned by the … [Read more...]
Canal Aquaduct & Henry Mason Trail
I Think I Can(al), I Think I Can(al)... Farmington Land Trust's Canal Aqueduct & Henry Mason Trails March 2018 Hiking with my older son Damian is a total crapshoot. His unique brand of special needs is such that I have no idea how the outing is going to go until we get going. This hike was one of those rare and … [Read more...]
OLLT: Watch Rock Preserve
Rocking Rock Watching at Watch Rock Old Lyme Land Trust: Elizabeth B. Karter Watch Rock Preserve ~1 Mile, March 2018 I’ve been poking around Connecticut and writing about my adventures for over a decade. And if I’m to “complete” this project, I have decades ahead of me. You may find it suprising to read that I’m … [Read more...]
Old Lyme’s Town Trails
Old Lyme’s Town Trails Good Ol’ Lyme. Good ol’ Old Lyme. Quite a time, one can have in Lyme. The former art colony is sublime – who’s saying that? I’m. How much more can I rhyme with Old Lyme? Hm, well, it has pretty low crime, it’s east of Anaheim, Tyler Olander under Jim Calhoun (who coached in Old Lyme) … [Read more...]
Enders Falls
This is No Game Enders Falls, Granby Multiple visits A stairway has been built along the trail since my visits below. An alternate title for this page is “Wiggin Out.” That’s for all you sci-fi nerds out there. “This is Not Game”... “Wiggin Out”... both refer to Orson Scott Card’s seminal novel Ender’s Game of … [Read more...]
Hopemead State Park
Hope for Bozrah Hopemead State Park, Bozrah/Montville March 2018 Poor Bozrah (again). The town I pick on more than any other got a postage stamp state park (60 acres) in 1955 and... a chunk of it is in Montville. Bozrah can’t even have a little undeveloped state park all … [Read more...]
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