Section 6: No, THIS is ShenipThat'sIt! Stafford ~ 2 miles December 23, 2016 Ah yes, the good ol’ Shenipsit Trail. The oft-forgotten long distance CFPA trail right up the center of Connecticut. From East Hampton down near the Portland border up into Stafford near the Massachusetts border, this trail has never … [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
Wyllys Falls
Whatchoo Talkin' 'Bout Wyllys? Wyllys Falls, Manchester November 2016 Wyllys Falls is also known as Bridal Veil Falls, even though I've never seen anyone call it that except in sentences like this one. Wyllys Falls is located in a Manchester Land Conservation Trust property called "Spring Street-Hayden L. … [Read more...]
MLCT: Spring St.- Hayden L. Griswold
Wyllyng Them To Rename This Property Spring St.- Hayden L. Griswold Trail, Manchester November 2016 I am terrible at marketing and promotion when it comes to CTMQ. Just not my thing. I keep telling myself that the words I put on the pages will speak for themselves. So to have me politely suggest that the … [Read more...]
Nike Site Recreation Area
Rockets Go 'Swoosh' Nike Site Recreation Area, Manchester January 2017 If I were to think about which of the 70 or so Manchester “things” I’m visiting and writing about for CTMQ, I’d guess that there are only three with more blog pages dedicated to them than this place. Surprising? Sure. For the record, my … [Read more...]
MLCT: Buckland Pond
Buck Up Manchester Land Cons. Trust Trails (MLCT): Buckland Pond ~0.5 mile loop, January 2017 I used to live in Manchester as well as Glastonbury. I became familiar with the backroads between the towns that avoided the highways. But even so, there is a whole section of Manchester that I was wholly unfamiliar with … [Read more...]
MLCT: Fairway Park
Not Fair Manchester Land Cons. Trust Trails (MLCT): Fairway Park 5-minute Bumble-Around, January 2017 I titled this page “Not Fair.” Why? Because busting on this MLCT property isn’t fair on my part. They do a great job all around the town of Manchester. I could give them the business regarding their website, … [Read more...]
MLCT: Purdy Nature Park Trail
Purdy, not Purty Manchester Land Cons. Trust Trails (MLCT): Purdy Nature Park Trail 0.5 mile one way, December 2016 When I began completing Manchester, I knew I would have to walk a bunch of trails that most people would tend to avoid. That’s just the nature of being a completist. It even happens in the Catskills … [Read more...]
TSTL’16.14: Bluff Point State Park
The Sky's the Limit 2016 Hiking Challenge #14 Bluff Point State Park and Coastal Reserve, Groton October 30, 2016 Here we are... at the end of the long and winding road that the 2016 DEEP Sky’s the Limit Challenge presented us. With hikes in New Fairfield, Greenwich, Thompson, and now Groton, we’d covered the … [Read more...]
Hockanum River Trail 12: Hilliard Trail
Doesn't Amount to a Hilliard of Beans Hockanum River Trail: Hilliard, Manchester .3 miles round trip, May 2015 If you are reading my thru-hike of the Hockanum River Trail in order (generally south to north), you have already read the New State Road Trail page. If you haven’t, it’s a fun one and you should. Better … [Read more...]
TSTL’16.13: Devil’s Hopyard
The Sky's the Limit 2016 Hiking Challenge #13 Devil's Hopyard State Park, East Haddam October 23, 2016 A week before Halloween. Oogity-boogity. No big deal going to a place called Devil's Hopyard then, right? I mean, it's just an antiquated place-name, and it's not like there would be any other nearby roads … [Read more...]
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