Event type: Hike
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Trails Day Nature Walk Wood Parcel
Nature hike for little kids at the Wood Parcel. Bring your young naturalists for a short walk over the bridge, through the woods, by the turtle pond (and new beaver dam!), along the marsh and brook, and out to the farm fields where corn is being planted, strawberries ripening and spinach harvested. If we’re lucky […]
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Wilson-Carvalho and Hockanum Meadows
POSTPONED TO SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11 – Meet GMCT’s Rick Doran, Goodwin College’s Bruce Morton, Program Director of Environmental Studies, and Charley Smith of Land Heritage Coalition of Glastonbury at Hockanum Park, 324 High St. Explore our Wilson-Carvalho and Hockanum Meadows parcels in the “Wethersfield Triangle” of land marooned on the east side as the river […]
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Wethersfield Cove Park
As the winter twilight fades in the western sky, meet GMCT’s Mike Monroe and Bike Walk Wethersfield’s Kevin Sullivan, at the Keeney Center parking lot, 200 Main Street, Old Wethersfield. Walkers will stroll down Main Street to Wethersfield Cove Park (about 1 mile), walk through the parking lot to the Cove channel, under the I91 […]
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Glastonbury Meadows Preissner, First Church Parcels
Note: Walk from Point Road was moved due to high water. About 2 hours. Meet Paula Tamburro and John Ferguson at the Glastonbury Boat House, 252 Welles St. View the beautiful River from the boat house veranda and Riverfront Park. Follow the trail through the park, past the DED tolerant elm trees, and down along […]
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Crow Point
Meet Jim Woodworth and Goodwin College’s Bruce Morton, Program Director of Environmental Studies, at the Putnam Park parking lot, 100 Great Meadow Road, just north of the Putnam Bridge. We’ll peel away the centuries to imagine the river bank before the bridge, and explore the 300+ acre Crow Point property owned by Goodwin College. We’ll […]
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Wolf Parcel and DeMille Easement
About 1 hour. Meet Jim Woodworth at 412 Hartford Ave, corner of Jordan Lane, for a short walk through the gate to our Wolf Parcel and DeMille Easement on the Cove and Folly Brook. Stay for a longer walk, another two and a half hours, up Hartford Ave. and out along the Hartford dike that […]
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Wolcott and Crilly Parcels
About 2 hours. Meet Larry Lunden at 258 Elm St, at the underpass under I-91. A long hike down to the River and along the farm road, now designated a Greenway, to our Wolcott and Crilly parcels in the Wethersfield Meadows. From I-91 south take exit 25 S to route 3 south, or from Glastonbury […]
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Wood Parcel
About 1½ hours. Meet Jim Woodworth at 160 Middletown Ave, south of Maple St, on GMCT’s Wood Parcel. Enjoy the new Heritage Walk panels and accessible trail enhancements! Cross the shiny bridge and follow the trail along the marsh and around the loop past the 18th century house site. Hike will continue across the culvert […]
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Earle Park
About 2 hours. Meet Whit Osgood at Earle Park (former Glastonbury Audubon Society Parking area) at 1361 Main St. We will take a short, moderately difficult hike up the trail over the bluff, across Holland and Hubbard Brooks, and north along the River to our Austin and Matava parcels in Glastonbury Meadows.
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Rocky Hill Meadows
About 2 hours. Meet at the meadows gate at 78 Goff Brook Lane, off of Old Main St. Join Tim Lewis on a hike to several of our parcels in the Rocky Hill Meadows. We’ll walk the farm roads, take a turn around the new Goff Brook Trail in the DiPaola parcel, and walk out […]