Northwest Connecticut Land Conservancy Trails

Northwest Connecticut Land Conservancy
Brookfield, Kent, Litchfield, New Milford, Newtown, Sharon, & Sherman

Up until 2020, there existed three land trusts in northwest Connecticut that no longer exist: The Brookfield Land Trust, The Naromi Land Trust, and the Weanitogue Land Trust. In 2019, the Brookfield Land Trust was absorbed by the Weanitogue Land Trust. In 2020, The now-expanded Weanitogue and Naromi Land Trusts combined to form the Northwest Connecticut Land Conservancy. And in late 2020, I caught on and am updating everything on CTMQ to reflect this change – not a simple task.

But a worthwhile one. I am a proponent of regionalization and strongly believe that Connecticut shouldn’t have 169 towns with 169 independent governments. So how can I complain when three of our land trusts do the smart thing and “regionalize?” In doing so, the NCLC is now huge. Weanitogue was already huge, so these guys oversee a lot of land and numerous trails and their history goes back to 1965 and, and, and… I’m excited to explore more of what they have.

The Preserves/Hikes:

Brookfield

Birch Rocks and Pratt Glen Preserves
Kahlo Sanctuary

Kent

Alice McCallister Memorial Sanctuary
Cobble Brook Vista Preserve
Cobble Mountain

Litchfield

Hauser Nature Preserve

New Milford

Candlewood Mountain
Kahn Preserve
Mildred Strauss and James Morrissey Family Nature Preserve
Mount Tom Preserve
Tory’s Cave & The Eleanor and Howard Hunt Nature Preserve

Newtown

Henry Pond Brook Preserve

Sharon

Wildwoods Nature Preserve

Sherman

Brookland and Josephson Preserves
Hadlow Preserve
Herrick Preserve
Irene’s Woods Preserve
Mallory Schneckenburger Preserve
Towner Hill Preserve
West Briggs Hill
Wimisink Preserve

Northwest Connecticut Land Conservancy
CTMQ’s Land Trust Trails
CTMQ’s Guide to Brookfield
CMTQ’s Guide to Kent
CTMQ’s Guide to Litchfield
CTMQ’s Guide to New Milford
CTMQ’s Guide to Newtown
CTMQ’s Guide to Sharon
CTMQ’s Guide to Sherman