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Menunkatuck-Mattabesett Trails, CT
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| Hiking | 6.80 Miles |
794 AEG |
| | Hiking | 6.80 Miles | 2 Hrs 59 Mns | | 2.53 mph |
| 794 ft AEG | 18 Mns Break | | | |
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| no partners | | I am section hiking the Connecticut portion of the New England Trail (CT-NET). This day I led a small party of the Meshomasic Hiking Club on Sections 8 and 9 of the CT-NET. This portion includes parts of the Menunkatuck Trail, the southernmost section of the NET, and the Mattabesett Trail which heads up toward Middletown. The portion described here starts at a large parking lot at CT-80, and continues north through Cockaponset State Forest. After intersecting the Mattabesett Trail at a T-intersection, it turns west, through a geologically interesting area called the Broomstick Ledges.
While the Menunkatuck section is easy enough, the section through the Broomstick Ledges finds the hardest possible (and most interesting) route through the rocky terrain.
The trip this day ended at the Bluff Head Parking on CT-77. |
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