Paugnut State Forest Intro

Paugnut State Forest Torrington & Winchester Though Paugnut sounds like a kind of tree, it was supposedly a Native American chief back in the day. There is some dispute about the veracity of this claim. Regardless, we now have a decently sized state forest that more or less connects two state parks in Torrington. There […]

Heritage Land Preservation Trust

Heritage Land Preservation Trust Trails I am writing this sentence a few days shy of 2021, which means I’ve been writing and maintaining this website for well over 14 years. I’ve hiked hundreds of miles around Connecticut and have created hundreds of “intro” pages for land trusts and other similar entities. And yet, until today, […]