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Pachaug Trail
The Pachaug Trail is a Connecticut hiking trail and is one of the '' Blue-Blazed hiking trails'' maintained by the Connecticut Forest and Park Association. It is a horseshoe shaped trail. The trail is located in the towns of Voluntown in New London County and Sterling in Windham County in eastern Connecticut as well as Hopkinton, Rhode Island. The trail is mostly within the Pachaug State Forest. The Pachaug Trail was a much larger trail in the 1930s and 1940s but it has been one of the Blue-Blazed Trails most drastically shrunk by post-World War 2 housing developments. Trail description The Pachaug Trail is a Blue-Blazed hiking trail and extends from Breakneck Road near the intersection with Lee Road in Griswold, Connecticut, to northern Spaulding Road in Plainfield. Most of the Pachaug Trail is on state land within the Pachaug State Forest. It connects to public recreation areas maintained by the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection at Green Falls Pond ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Connecticut
Connecticut () is the southernmost state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, New York to the west, and Long Island Sound to the south. Its capital is Hartford and its most populous city is Bridgeport. Historically the state is part of New England as well as the tri-state area with New York and New Jersey. The state is named for the Connecticut River which approximately bisects the state. The word "Connecticut" is derived from various anglicized spellings of "Quinnetuket”, a Mohegan-Pequot word for "long tidal river". Connecticut's first European settlers were Dutchmen who established a small, short-lived settlement called House of Hope in Hartford at the confluence of the Park and Connecticut Rivers. Half of Connecticut was initially claimed by the Dutch colony New Netherland, which included much of the land between the Connecticut and Delaware Rivers, although the firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
