Traprock Ridge Land Conservancy Intro

Traprock Ridge Land Conservancy (formerly Wintonbury, East Granby, and West Hartford Land Trusts)
Bloomfield, East Granby, & Windsor

In April 2023 the East Granby, Wintonbury (Bloomfield), and West Hartford Land Trusts merged to form the Traprock Ridge Land Conservancy. These consolidations make sense for a dozen reasons and I suspect we’ll see more of them across the state in the coming years and decades. Now if only Connecticut’s towns would do the same…

East Granby and Bloomfield have a bunch of trailed properties; some pretty darn great, some not so great – but my hometown of West Hartford has exactly zero land trust trails, and I don’t ever expect that to change. (There are still important protected parcels of course.) Let’s hike!

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The Hikes:

Bloomfield

LaSallette Trail
Beacon Hill Preserve (Potential future trails)
Evans Family Meadows
Hawk Hill Farm Preserve
Merritt Preserve
Speer Preserve
Stout Family Field
Van Otterloo Preserve

East Granby

Tom & Ginnie Howard Preserve

The “okay” EGLT trailed properties:

The 4 “not so okay” EGLT trailed properties:

West Hartford

Wojan Woods Preserve

Traprock Ridge Land Conservancy
CTMQ’s Guide to Bloomfield
CTMQ’s Guide to East Granby
CTMQ’s Guide to West Hartford
CTMQ’s Land Trust Trails Page