auntie | August 6, 2014
2.5 miles, higganum, ct not having learned my lesson from the previous day’s foray on the mattabesett, i decided to visit another short section of the same trail on the way home. i could almost out-source this entire post to the blogger at boxingthenet. the trail head is at this small state park, the seven […]
auntie | August 6, 2014
1 mile, hamden, ct this is hardly worth posting about, but i had the morning free and i had planned on visiting the yale center for british art in new haven, but it was over an hour before opening time, so i popped over to sleeping giant state park and took a quick little 1-mile […]
auntie | August 5, 2014
3.5 miles, middletown, ct i’ve been wanting to do this hike ever since reading this blog post. it looked intriguing. and it was very scenic and very challenging. the blue-blazed mattabesett trail, maintained by the connecticut forest and park association, is part of the new england trail, which runs from the connecticut shore to the […]
auntie | July 30, 2014
2.4 miles, north stonington, ct this was the second of the local preserves i wanted to explore today. it’s another very pretty place, and although it feels in places like you’re walking too close to houses, parts feel more remote. there’s a cool old cellar hole and a giant boulder with a ladder. and mysterious […]
auntie | July 30, 2014
2.3 miles, north stonington, ct there are two largish preserves in north stonington that i had yet to explore, and they’re quite near each other, so i decided to do them both in one day. this was the first. i know the name sounds vaguely like a third reich fortification or something, but i am […]
auntie | July 29, 2014
.5 miles, north stonington, ct i almost wasn’t going to even blog this hike, but hey, i did it, so here it is. borderlands trail is a fancy-sounding name for a walk around the ballfields surrounding the elementary school in north stonington. i “hiked” the stretch that runs between the school and the town’s recreation […]
