Land Trust Trails

Land Trust Me, You Don’t Want to Do This
Connecticut’s Land Trusts & Their Trails

For several years, this introductory paragraph used to say some stuff about how this page was ridiculous because no way would I ever even consider hiking all of the trails on all of our various land trusts’ properties. I just didn’t know how to dream big back then.

There are a lot of land trusts in Connecticut and the range of how decent or great they are is pretty large. Some have great hiking trails, some don’t. Some have great websites, most don’t. Some have printed guides, most don’t.

By the way, there are a lot of land trust-like organizations like the Hockanum River Watershed Association and others that operate like land trusts, aren’t land trusts, but don’t fit into my other categories. Eh, whatareyougonnado.

CT Land Trusts

Aspetuck Land Trust (Easton, Fairfield, Weston, Westport)
Avalonia Land Conservancy (Groton, Ledyard, N. Stonington, Preston, Stonington)
Avon Land Trust
Bethany Land Trust
Bethel Land Trust
Bethlehem Land Trust
Bolton Land Trust
Branford Land Trust
Bridgewater Land Trust
Burlington Land Trust
Candlewood Valley Regional Land Trust (Danbury & New Fairfield)
Canton Land Conservation Trust
Cheshire Land Trust
Chester Land Trust
Clinton Land Conservation Trust
The Colebrook Land Conservancy
Colchester Land Trust
Cornwall Conservation Trust
Darien Land Trust
Deep River Land Trust
The Former East Granby Land Trust
East Haddam Land Trust
East Haven Land Trust
East Lyme Land Trust
Environmental Learning Centers of CT, Bristol & Burlington
Essex Land Trust
Eversource Land Trust (Brooklyn, East Granby, Enfield, Granby, Middletown, New Fairfield, Waterford, Windsor Locks)
Farmington Land Trust
Flanders Land Trust (Woodbury, Bethlehem, Southbury & Middlebury)
Friends of Shetucket River Valley (Franklin, Lisbon, Scotland, Sprague, Windham)
Goshen Land Trust
Granby Land Trust
Great Meadows Conservation Trust (Wethersfield, Rocky Hill & Glastonbury)
Greenwich Land Trust
Groton Open Space Association
Guilford Land Conservation Trust
Haddam Land Trust
Hamden Land Trust
Harwinton Land Trust
The Heritage Land Preservation Trust, Torrington
Hockanum River Watershed Association (Manchester, Vernon, Ellington, East Hartford)
Joshua’s Trust (Andover, Ashford, Chaplin, Columbia, Coventry, Eastford, Franklin, Hampton, Lebanon, Mansfield, Scotland, Tolland, Willington, & Windham)
Kent Land Trust
Killingworth Land Conservation Trust
Kongscut Land Trust (Glastonbury)
Litchfield Land Trust
Lyme Land Conservation Trust
Madison Land Conservation Trust
Manchester Land Conservation trust
Middlebury Land Trust
Middlesex Land Trust (East Hampton, Haddam, Portland, Middletown, Middlefield, Durham & Cromwell)
Milford Land Conservation Trust
New Canaan Land Trust
New England Forestry Foundation (East Lyme, Hartland, Pomfret, Woodstock)
New Hartford Land Trust
New Roxbury Land Trust, Union & Woodstock
Gather New Haven
Newtown Forest Association
Norfolk Land Trust
North Branford Land Conservation Trust
North Stonington Citizens Land Alliance
North Woods Land Conservancy
Northern Connecticut Land Trust (East Windsor, Ellington, Enfield, Somers, Stafford, Tolland, Vernon)
Northwest Connecticut Land Conservancy (Brookfield, Kent, Litchfield, New Milford, Newtown, Sharon, & Sherman)
Norwalk Land Trust
Old Lyme Land Trust
Orange Land Trust
Oxford Land Trust
Plymouth Land Trust
Pond Mountain Trust (Kent)
Prospect Land Trust
Redding Land Trust
Roxbury Land Trust
Salem Land Trust
Salisbury Association Land Trust
Seymour Land Conservation Trust
Sharon Land Trust
Shelton Land Conservation Trust
Simsbury Land Trust
Southbury Land Trust
Southington Land Conservation Trust
Stamford Land Conservation Trust
Steep Rock Association Land Trust, Washington
Stonington Land Trust
Suffield Land Conservancy
Traprock Ridge Land Conservancy (Bloomfield, East Granby, & West Hartford)
Wallingford Land Trust
The Warren Land Trust
Waterford Land Trust
Watertown Land Trust
Land Trust of West Haven
Wilton Land Conservation Trust
Winchester Land Trust
The former Wintonbury Land Trust (Bloomfield)
Wolcott Land Conservation Trust
Wolf Den Land Trust (Ashford, Brooklyn, Scotland, Hampton, Killingly, Eastford, Thompson, Windham)
Woodbridge Land Trust
Woodsmen Land Trust, East Lyme & Montville
Wyndham Land Trust (Brooklyn, Eastford, Killingly, Plainfield, Pomfret, Putnam, Thompson, Woodstock)

No Trails Trusts

Barkhamsted Land Trust (No website)
Berlin Land Trust
Old Saybrook Land Trust
Westbrook Land Conservation Trust