Milford

Silver Sands State Park

Date visited: 1/24/2021

This is another beach state park. Despite what you see in some of these pictures, dogs aren't allowed in some areas of the park, even in the off-season. I'm not sure the reasoning behind it.

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Fowler & Wilcox Parks

Date visited: 6/13/2023

I never realized that Milford was this nice. This is actually the entire area around Fowler & Wilcox Parks. Fowler Park is the area with the playground and athletic fields, and Wilcox park is the small wooded area with trails behind Fowler Park. While these are both great, the best part of the walk was the area with the marina next to the parks. There are many photo opportunities here. There are a number of sidewalks, bridges, fountains, waterfalls, and boating docks here. They all make great backdrops for photos.

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Downtown Milford

Date visited: 6/13/2023

This is the area around city hall. There's an unnamed park area with a man-made waterfall and a foot bridge. It's a nice, scenic spot.

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Solomon Brook Trail

Date visited: 1/24/2021

This was a frustrating trail. The actual path didn't really line up with the map in All-Trails. It made it very hard to navigate. It was an okay loop trail, but not very exciting.

Sikorsky Estuary Walk

Date visited: 3/6/2021

This is the pedestrian walkway over the Sikorsky bridge that connects Stratford to Milford and the Merritt Parkway with the Wilbur Cross Parkway. There is a paved walking trail on the Stratford side that leads up to the bridge that goes near the river and offers some views. The picture below was taken on the Milford side, and it captured a blowing leaf in mid-air.

Beaver Brook Nature Trail

Date visited: 12/16/2021

This trail reminds me of the Laurel Marsh Trail Stone Dust Loop in Manchester. They are both short stone dust surfaced loop trails near highways. This trail features a wonderful long boardwalk through the marsh.

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Mondo Ponds Nature Preserve

Date visited: 12/16/2021

This one is not quite as nice as the Beaver Brook Nature Trail. The loop around the far pond is overgrown, and there are a lot of prickery branhces too close to the trail. The trail loops behind the Subway National Headquarters. There are no pictures of the Subway building, as there was a security type person eyeing us. I guess he wanted to be sure I didn't take any pictures of their secret sandwiches and sell them to Blimpie's or something.