North Woods Land Conservancy

North Woods Land Conservancy
Barkhamsted & Hartland

In 2024, The Hartland Land Trust merged with the Barkhamsted Land Trust to form North Woods Land Conservancy. At the time, there are no trailed properties in Barkhamsted.

Not that counties mean anything in Connecticut, but pick someone up off the street in Hartford and drop them in the middle of the woods in Hartland and I’ll bet they wouldn’t believe that they are still in Hartford County. Especially after walking hours through thick forests in an effort to survive.

Beaver Pond at Mill District Preserve

Over 70% of Hartland is wooded and more or less protected. There’s a lot of woods up there, but the town’s land trust only manages a few properties. They help out with the other entities that manage trails in town, so it’s not like they’re bored. But with so much of the land state-owned, it’s tough to get in a little land trust action I suppose.