CTMQ’s Guide to Lyme

Everything Lyme

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” Lyme CTMQ-style… as well as the other 168 towns, cities, and boroughs in Connecticut. After all, that is the ultimate goal of CTMQ.

What do you know about the town most famous for having a tick-borne disease named – actually, that would be infamous and I think the first Lyme Disease cases diagnosed as such came from Old Lyme, not Lyme… but still, that’s what Lyme is most famous for. You can scroll down for my list of things to do in town. Or, as always, you can click on the town’s tag to see what I’ve done.

If I’ve missed anything in town or if anything has closed or changed, please let me know.

Museums

Gillette Castle

Hikes & Paddles

Becket Hill State Park Reserve – no access, no trails
Gillette Castle State Park – Intro
Selden Neck State Park
Nehantic State Forest – Intro

CFPA: Nayantaquit Trail

Richard H. Goodwin TrailIntro

    Lyme Section

Lyme Land Conservation TrustIntro

    Banningwood Preserve
    Beebe Preserve
    Brockway-Hawthorne Preserve
    Chestnut Hill Preserve
    Clucas Field
    Eno, Mount Archer, and Pickwick’s Preserves
    Honey Hill Preserve
    Grassy Hill Preserve
    Lyme Corner Trails
    Patrell Preserve
    Pleasant Valley Preserve
    Plimpton Preserve
    Roaring Brook Preserve

The Nature Conservancy TrailsIntro

    Jewett Preserve
    Pleasant Valley Preserve
    Selden Creek

Town TrailsIntro

    Hartman Park (Lyme Corner Trails)
    Jewett Preserve
    Mount Archer

Silvio O. Conte National Fish & Wildlife Refuge

    Lord Cove Preserve
    Whalebone Cove Preserve

Food & Drink

CT Cheese Trail: Beaver Brook Farm
CT Wine Trail: Sunset Hill Vineyard

Everything Else

National Champion: Sugar Maple
US Oldest: Chester-Hadlyme Ferry
Borgund Stave Church replica
Connecticut River Art Trail Viewpoint
Blood Street
Lyme Green
Moulson Pond Fishway
Ed Bills Pond Fishway

Lyme Wrap-Up

Completion Celebration Meal @ TBD