In an effort to catch up this site on our adventures before life gets crazy again, today we are sharing about a variety of hiking and exploring that we’ve done in Southeastern Connecticut. Some of these were just short afternoon outings, while others were day trips — just a little too uneventful to be made into their own post. Rocky Neck State… Read More
Hartford
Visiting Downtown Hartford • Talcott Mountain State Park • Stratton Brook State Park • Salmon River State Forest • July 29, 2017 • Written by Curtis & Jess The weekend after visiting Rhode Island’s state capitol, we thought it was about time we visit Connecticut’s. We got up early and hit the road on Saturday, driving North directly into the downtown area. It’s so nice… Read More
Sleeping Giant State Park
Lock 12 Historic Park • Sleeping Giant State Park • July 25, 2017 Curtis: On the recommendation of a friend, we decided to take a midweek trip to go hiking at Sleeping Giant State Park. Believe it or not, but Southeastern Connecticut is flat — at least flat in comparison to the Adirondacks or Arizona. Whenever we get the chance to hike… Read More
Mashamoquet Brook State Park
July 23, 2017 • Natchaug State Forest • Mashamoquet Brook State Park • Written by Curtis The day after our trip through Rhode Island, we spend most of the morning weighing our options for what we could possibly do. We came up with many ideas: staying local, going to Hartford, going to Boston, going to the Western part of the state. But none… Read More
Mount Holyoke Range State Park
Through Hiking in Mount Holyoke Range State Park • Saturday, July 15, 2017 For our 3rd weekend in Connecticut, we had a complicated situation we had to work around. I’ll share those details in a later post — today, I want to write about the fun part: through-hiking the Mount Holyoke Range in Massachusetts! We woke up at dawn on Saturday, July 15,… Read More
Week 3 in Connecticut
Haley Farm State Park • Ledyard Glacial Park • Sunset at Seaside • Charlotte’s 3rd Birthday On July 9, the day after visiting our first Sky’s the Limit Challenge site, we decided to go out and visit our second site in the challenge, located in Haley Farm State Park. Haley Farm is directly East of Bluff Point in Groton. The land was primarily farm… Read More