auntie | November 27, 2018
4.8 miles; Lyme, CT After my too-ambitious plan to hike the Warner Trail got postponed till Spring, I kind of slacked off. More than 2 weeks passed without my going anywhere at all to hike, and that was a mistake. My second mistake was picking this particular trail to start up with again, because it […]
auntie | December 11, 2016
6.9 miles; East Haddam, Salem, Lyme, and East Lyme, CT The Richard H. Goodwin Trail, not to be confused with the James L. Goodwin Conservation Area, is a newly-opened 14-mile multi-town trail in eastern Connecticut. It pretty amazingly spends very little time on roads—it seems to just go from conservation area to wildlife management area […]
auntie | July 7, 2015
6.5 miles; lyme, ct well i finally got back here, and boy howdie, am i glad i did. i was last here in october of last year, and i didn’t get to see much. yesterday i had the time to visit as long as i wanted. lyme preserves is exactly that—a series of small land trust […]
auntie | October 12, 2014
4 miles; lyme, ct the town of lyme, connecticut, has a wealth of open space, with not only 2 state forests, but 20 (yes, two-oh) preserves of varying sizes owned by the lyme land trust. there’s one really nice swath of land that consists of 5 contiguous properties with a a trail system throughout all five […]
auntie | April 13, 2013
3.89 miles 2.1 mph same kind of hike as the last one, as in moderate elevation changes; from maybe 150 feet to almost 500 feet and back. this was kind of a scruffy little state forest with a nice up and down loop and some decent views at the top and very well-marked trails. […]
auntie | March 18, 2012
★★★★½ 4.75 miles my first hike with the se ct adventures meetup group. this was a fantastic property. so much to see… from “the fairy circle” to “the snout” to “three chimneys…” 90:10 hikey:walkey, with some SERIOUS climby involved. and by serious, i mean, at one point i was going up on all 4s. good […]
