Nipmuck Trail and the 50-Foot Cliff

| November 22, 2016

Nipmuck Trail and the 50-Foot Cliff

5 miles; Mansfield, CT I did a fair bit of driving today to get to some trails I’d never been on before, but actually ended up retracing a portion of a hike I did a little over 2 years ago. There was an amazing view from atop the “50-Foot Cliff.” Now I have to figure […]

Wolf Rock Nature Preserve

| October 7, 2016

Wolf Rock Nature Preserve

1.64 miles; Mansfield, CT Today was a Garden Club visit to check out a letterbox on this Joshua’s Land Trust Preserve. We saw TONS of mushrooms, a cool glacial erratic on a cliff top overlook, a snake, and a cairn. It was a perfect autumn day for a hike. This is the Wolf Rock of […]

The Sky’s The Limit Challenge, Hike 7—Mansfield Hollow SP

| June 27, 2016

The Sky's The Limit Challenge, Hike 7—Mansfield Hollow SP

7 miles; Mansfield, CT We are officially half-way through the 14-hike DEEP Challenge! This was a great hike on a very interesting property. We started from the same place I started from the last time I hiked here, back in October 0f 2014. But this time I didn’t get lost and my cellphone didn’t die, both […]

Mansfield Hollow State Park

| October 30, 2014

Mansfield Hollow State Park

7.1 miles; mansfield, ct this is one of the hikes on my to-do list, and i finally got to it. it turned into a much longer hike than i anticipated, and i’m not sure why. this was a very nice hike through both a state park and a state forest, with an interesting flood control project […]