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Wilton
Cherry Lane Park
Date visited: 3/12/2021
I found this nice set of trails at Cherry Lane Park in Wilton. There were a couple of well labled loop trails here. We did the shorter one. There was a nice bridge and a small waterfall as well.
Norwalk River Valley Trail
Date visited: 2/17/2022
Well, this trail was a mistake! First of all, I got stuck in traffic for 20 minutes on the Merritt Parkway on the way here. When we arrived, the trail was extremely muddy. This is the muddiest I've ever seen a stone dust trail. This is another section of the trail that we walked a few days earlier in Norwalk. I'm sure the trail is pretty nice normally. We started at a commuter lot near the juncion of US-7, CT-33, and CT-106 and hiked up hill about two miles to the Twin Oaks Lane parking area, with of course another two miles back down. It was another unseasonably warm day, 60 degrees in the middle of February. Evidently that caused some rapid melting. I spoke to a jogger who told me the trail was a sheet of ice the other day, so I guess the mud is beter than ice. Needless to say the dogs weren't very happy with me as they both went right in the tub when we got home!
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Honey Hill
Preserve
Date visited: 3/25/2022
This nature preserve straddles the border between Weston and Wilton. The biggest issue with this place is the lack of parking. The trailhead is at the end of a narrow street. The Aspetuck Land Trust page tells you to park at the end of Mayapple Lane, which is a half mile away and actually called Mayapple Road, and is in Wilton not Weston, so it didn't show up on the GPS. We wound up parking at Belknap Preserve, which is a quarter mile down the road from Honey Hill Preserve. The trail itself was okay. It's nothing special. Like so many other trails in the area, it features a lot of stone walls. There are a series of loops, so you can really tailor your walk for the distance and time you have available. Some of the trails are wide, dirt roads, and others are regular trails. We hiked two miles total here (2 1/2 if you count the walk to and from the car). The pictures below are from the Wilton section of the trail.
Belknap
Preserve
Date visited: 3/25/2022
This stop wasn't planned. We actually had to park here for the Honey Hill Preserve. The map I followed indicated that there were two loops here, a shorter inner loop, and a longer loop. Since we hiked four miles already today, we did the shorter loop that runs for about a mile. Like the Honey Hill Preserve, this trail featured many stone walls.
