Hikes In Connecticut

Judd’s Bridge Farm is a sight to see along the old country roads of Roxbury. Read more here.

Visitors can do a loop hike around a farm field next to the park. The field was recently hayed. Read more about this hike here.

There are two trails at Kathan Woods preserve, a blue trail and yellow trail. Read more about this hike here.

A maple tree with the trail bridge over the East Aspetuck River in New Milford. Read more about this hike here.

Several dead trees seem to rise from the depths of Chapman Mill Pond in Westbrook. Read more here.

An old chimney still seems to stand guard at the abandoned Camp Francis in Kent. Read more about this location here.

A ladder helps visitors climb to the top of “Tipping Rock” at Hewitt Farm. Read more about this hike here.

The view north from the Goshen Land Trust’s Mountain View Preserve. Read more about it here.

A large tree grows around the boardwalk in Groton along the Old Trolley Bed. Read more about it here.

A white blaze marks the “old forest” loop trail at Whitaker Preserve in Somers. Read more about this hike here.

The Henry David Thoreau Bridge and its yellow pine timbers from below at Hidden Valley Preserve in Washington, Conn. Read more here.

A new segment of the Air Line Linear Trail crosses over Pine Brook heading toward Bolton. This is part of the Charter Oak Greenway. Read more here.

Beavers have dammed up a stream and created a pond at the Avalonia Land Conservancy in North Stonington. Read more here.

Another view of the Truss bridge across Pootatuck River in Sandy Hook. Read more here.

A sign identifies the foundations of a vehicle maintenance garage at the old CCC Camp Hadley in Madison. Read more here.

A trail sign directs hikers where to go on the Naugatuck Trail in Woodbridge. Read more here.

Wadsorth Falls in Middlefield during the height of a cold snap last week. Find out more here.

Spiderweed and Hubbard Brook are in the southeastern portion of the city along a busy Route 9 and near Pratt & Whitney’s Middletown plant, but once inside the natural world it all disappears. Read more here.

The trail begins along the banks of the river near its outlet into New Haven Harbor and Long Island Sound. Read more here.

Dividend Park in Rocky Hill has expanded its acreage, trails and its popularity. Read more.

The Manmade And Natural Mix In Scantic River State Park. Read more.

The 140-acre Lilly Preserve connects to the 24-acre van Deusen Preserve which connects to the 59-acre Baldwin Preserve. My connect-the-preserves journey began at Baldwin after traveling down the dirt portion of Lower County Road off Route 317. Read more.

The trail resides on what used to be a railroad line running through the state. Today, it is a often flooded trail, with improvements in the works featuring improved drainage and stone dust. Story and photos.

The Lone Pine Trail crosses a small stream flowing from the pond, and it is hard to imagine this waterway eventually becomes the Coginchaug and leads to one of the state’s prettiest waterfalls - the thundering Wadsworth Falls. Story and photos  (Peter Marteka / Hartford Courant)

A loop trail was recently blazed through the preserve and passes along the banks of the tranquil river to a woods road. The trail loops along the road to a high point with distant, seasonal views south across Lyme - one of the prettiest towns along the state’s shoreline. Story and photos here.  (Peter Marteka / Hartford Courant)

The 83.3-acre C.W. Luce Conservation area in Tolland includes a 1.5-mile loop trail and is next to the state’s Charter Marsh Wildlife Sanctuary. Story and pictures here.  (Stephen Dunn / The Hartford Courant)

A neighboring tree farm from the Casertano property offers a view towards Castle Craig in Meriden. Cheshire offers two hikes, the Casertano property off Marion Road and the Brooke Preserve off Sperry Road. Story and photos here.  (MICHAEL McANDREWS / Hartford Courant)

The Windsor River Trail is more than 140 acres that includes a popular boat launch in the shadow of the Captain John Bissell Memorial Bridge. Although the trail only winds through the floodplain forest along the river for a mile south to the Hartford line, there are plans to link it with the city’s Riverside Park. Read story here.  (Cloe Poisson / Hartford Courant)