CTMQ’s Guide to Middlebury

Everything Middlebury I’ve been exploring and writing about Connecticut since 2006. After a decade, I began compiling CTMQ guides for each town in the state. I plan on “completing” Middlebury CTMQ-style… as well as the other 168 towns, cities, and boroughs in Connecticut. That is the ultimate goal of CTMQ. If I’ve missed anything in […]

Flanders Land Trust Intro

Flanders Land Trust Middlebury & Woodbury Hi diddly ho neighborinos! Let’s explore the Flanders Land Trust trails! Flanders owns land in Bethlehem and Southbury, but there are no trails there as of this writing. The large bulk of their trails are in Woodbury, with one outpost in the middle of Middlebury. And I don’t want […]

Middlebury Land Trust Intro

Middlebury Land Trust Middlebury What’s up, Middlebury? How are you doing? Good? Good. Hey, I have a suggestion. I think there are some decent trails in town, but finding them online has been quite difficult. Your town website is useless, so my Middlebury Town Trail page is… sparse. Perhaps that reflects reality, but I don’t […]

Middlebury’s Town Trails

Middlebury’s Town Trails I can’t pretend (at the time of this writing) that this page is the full list of Middlebury Town Trailage. After doing a hundred of these types of intro pages on CTMQ, Middlebury is proving to be as difficult as any. But I accept the challenge – and I look to you, […]

Mountain Laurel Sanctuary

Peak Failage Mountain Laurel Sanctuary, Nipmuck State Forest, Union July 2018 On New Years Eve Day in 2016, I visited this place with my son Calvin. Who visits a Mountain Laurel Sanctuary in the dead of winter? We do… but we merely drove through it then to attain the all-important highest point in Windham County […]