Volunteers, along with a statewide trails organization, plan to cut a new section of the Metacomet Trail through town that will create a loop for hikers. The 51-mile Metacomet Trail is part of a ...

Eric Hammerling, executive director of the Connecticut Forest and Park Association, confers with Clare Cain, center, trail stewardship director and Lindsay Michel, land conservation director, outside ...

The story so far. Back in February, Katie, my eldest daughter, and I set out from the Massachusetts line to hike Connecticut’s Metacomet Trail in a series of day hikes. The Metacomet Trail runs 62 ...

Come along for the next stop in the Simsbury Public Library’s travel series held on the third Tuesday of each month. On Tuesday, June 20, 2017 at 6:30 p.m., Roberto Vargas will take you along on his ...

HOLYOKE - For M.P. "Chevy" Chevrette and his 11-year-old son, Benjamin, hiking has always been a way to get some exercise, explore the great outdoors and enjoy some father-son bonding time. Since Ben ...

Feb. 9—As friends and I neared the 950-summit of Talcott Mountain in Simsbury the other day, we could see the red roof of a cupola poking above the pines. Each step higher revealed more of the ...

Hiking in Connecticut can fall anywhere from a leisurely stroll across a bridge over a babbling brook through a field of wildflowers at a nature preserve to scrambling up the side of a trap rock ridge ...

We know it as the Metacomet-Monadnock Trail as it passes over local mountains, like Provin Mountain, Mount Tom and Mount Holyoke. But to the National Park Service, that is just one leg of the New ...

Oct. 24—While scrambling up steep, rocky Metacomet Trail on Meriden's East Peak one sunny day last week, Phil Plouffe and I glanced hopefully every few seconds toward a lofty ridge. "It's gotta be up ...