Past Events
Tuesday Trek: Brockway-Hawthorne Preserve
Time: 9:30 am -11 am
Place: Brockway-Hawthorne Preserve, Brush Hill Rd., Lyme CT
Contact Email: Kristina.white@lymelandtrust.org
Presenter: Kristina White
Brockway Hawthorne Preserve. Meet at Brush Hill Rd entrance. White to red to purple to white. About 3.5 miles. 2 hours.
Contact: Kristina.white@lymelandtrust.org
View the Tuesday Trek Schedule
Join us for a refreshing morning walk on a Lyme preserve led by a board or staff member of the Lyme Land Trust. The leaders will alternate each week between Sue Cope, Wendy Hill, and Kristina White with Brady, canine guide. The walks are moderately easy unless noted. Bring a water bottle and dress for the weather.
Space is limited to 5 people. Reservations are required. Contact walk leader to reserve.
Please be safe- wear a mask in the parking lot. Masks can be removed during the walk as long as social distancing is maintained.
Inclement weather cancels.
Winter Wonders/Forest Bathing Walk (Re-schedule)
Time: 1:30 pm
Place: Pleasant Valley Preserve, McIntosh Rd., Lyme CT
Contact Email: regan@awakentheforestwithin.com
Awaken your senses on a forest bathing walk along the wintery meadows, cedars and pine forest of Pleasant Valley Preserve. Invitations to deepen your connection with nature will be offered along the way. The walk concludes with a wild-foraged tea ceremony in honor of the land.
$30.00 per person. Registration required. To register.
The group is limited. Social distancing guidelines will be followed. Please wear a mask to the parking lot meet-up.
Folding stools are available for your use or bring along your own stool or sit upon (towel, cloth or mat) for our sitting sessions. Bench seats are available at the bonfire. You may wish to bring along some water or a warm beverage. There are no restrooms at the preserve.
Regan Stacy is the founder of Awaken the Forest Within, an organization that offers forest bathing walks. Forest bathing is a supportive practice that invites us to slow down, open our senses, and engage with nature and ourselves as we take in the restorative health benefits of being in the forest. These benefits include lowered stress, blood pressure, and heart rate, increased creativity and focus, and a boost to our immune system. Leave calm and refreshed for the day ahead.
Tuesday Trek: Ravine Trail Preserve
Time: 9:30 am -11 am
Place: Ravine Trail, Joshuatown Rd., Lyme CT
Contact Email: sue.cope@lymelandtrust.org
Presenter: Sue Cope
Meet at Selden Creek Preserve parking lot on Joshuatown Rd. We will head down the white trail and take red through the ravine area, then back on the yellow trail with a blue spur option depending on the group. About 1 mile.
To reserve a space: sue.cope@lymelandtrust.org
View the Tuesday Trek Schedule
Join us for a refreshing morning walk on a Lyme preserve led by a board or staff member of the Lyme Land Trust. The leaders will alternate each week between Sue Cope, Wendy Hill, and Kristina White with Brady, canine guide. The walks are moderately easy unless noted. Bring a water bottle and dress for the weather.
Space is limited to 5 people. Reservations are required. Contact walk leader to reserve.
Please be safe- wear a mask in the parking lot. Masks can be removed during the walk as long as social distancing is maintained.
Inclement weather cancels.
Tuesday Trek: Hartman Park
Time: 9:30 am -11 am
Place: Field Entrance, 1/2 mile north of the main entrance.
Contact Email: openspace@townlyme.org
Presenter: Wendy Hill
Field-yellow-orange-purple-red trail loop. My favorite yellow trail at Hartman Park plus visit two historic sites on the Heritage Trail (orange). About 1.5 to 2 miles.Meet at the Field Entrance 1/2 mile north of the main entrance. Pull in by the gate.
Reserve a spot: openspace@townlyme.org
View the Tuesday Trek Schedule
Join us for a refreshing morning walk on a Lyme preserve led by a board or staff member of the Lyme Land Trust. The leaders will alternate each week between Sue Cope, Wendy Hill, and Kristina White with Brady, canine guide. The walks are moderately easy unless noted. Bring a water bottle and dress for the weather.
Space is limited to 5 people. Reservations are required. Contact walk leader to reserve.
Please be safe- wear a mask in the parking lot. Masks can be removed during the walk as long as social distancing is maintained.
Inclement weather cancels.
New Year’s Day Hike with a Lyme Land Trust Board or Staff Member
Time: 1:00 pm
Place: 7 different locations
Contact Email: Kristina.white@lymelandtrust.org
Join us on New Year’s Day for a hike in one of 7 different preserves with either a Lyme Land Trust board or staff member. All hikes are roughly 1.5 hours long and 2-3 miles in length. Bring a water bottle and dress for the weather.
Banningwood Preserve – John Pritchard. Meet at parking lot on Town Street
Beebe Preserve – Sue Cope – Meet at parking lot on Old Grassy Hill Rd
Brockway-Hawthorne Preserve – Ann Rich. Meet at Brush Hill Rd parking lot
Johnston Preserve– Wendy Hill. Meet at parking lot on Route 82
Patrell Preserve – Joe Standart. Meet at parking lot on Baker Lane
Pleasant Valley Preserve – Tony Irving. Meet at Macintosh Rd parking lot
Selden Creek Preserve – Kristina White. Meet at parking lot on Joshuatown Road
For more information about the preserves and directions.
Space is limited to 6 people. Reservations are required.
Email Kristina.white@lymelandtrust.org to reserve.
Please indicate which hike you prefer
Please be safe – wear a mask in the parking lot. Masks can be removed during the walk as long as social distancing is maintained.
Inclement weather cancels.
Tuesday Trek: Plimpton Preserve
Time: 9:30 am -11 am
Place: Plimpton Preserve, Sterling City Rd., Lyme CT
Contact Email: Kristina.white@lymelandtrust.org
Presenter: Kristina White
Plimpton Preserve – Meet at the trailhead on Sterling City Rd. 1.75 loop with short walk on road to return to car. Parts are strenuous climb but worth the view from the overlook.
Contact: Kristina.white@lymelandtrust.org
View the Tuesday Trek Schedule
Join us for a refreshing morning walk on a Lyme preserve led by a board or staff member of the Lyme Land Trust. The leaders will alternate each week between Sue Cope, Wendy Hill, and Kristina White with Brady, canine guide. The walks are moderately easy unless noted. Bring a water bottle and dress for the weather.
Space is limited to 5 people. Reservations are required. Contact walk leader to reserve.
Please be safe- wear a mask in the parking lot. Masks can be removed during the walk as long as social distancing is maintained.
Inclement weather cancels.
Tuesday Trek: Banningwood Preserve
Time: 9:30 am -11 am
Place: Chestnut Hill Preserve, Sterling Hill Rd., Lyme CT
Contact Email: stewardship@lymelandtrust.org
Presenter: Sue Cope
Meet at Banningwood Preserve parking lot off Town Street for a moderate 1.5 mile walk that takes you through woodland wetlands, flood plain areas, fields, and upland forest.
To reserve a space: stewardship@lymelandtrust.org
View the Tuesday Trek Schedule
Join us for a refreshing morning walk on a Lyme preserve led by a board or staff member of the Lyme Land Trust. The leaders will alternate each week between Sue Cope, Wendy Hill, and Kristina White with Brady, canine guide. The walks are moderately easy unless noted. Bring a water bottle and dress for the weather.
Space is limited to 5 people. Reservations are required. Contact walk leader to reserve.
Please be safe- wear a mask in the parking lot. Masks can be removed during the walk as long as social distancing is maintained.
Inclement weather cancels.
Sacred Earth Celebration | Winter Solstice Luminary Walk
Time: 4:00 pm
Place: Banningwood Preserve. 19 Town St., Lyme CT
Contact Email: openspace@townlyme.org
Winter naturally invites us to slow down in rhythm with the landscape around us. This seasonal cycle of rest and reflection offers balance to our inner lives. When we are quiet and listen, we can often give ourselves what we need. A restorative time of year, the winter solstice marks a solar turning point, where the darkest day turns the corner to renewed light and we welcome the season of winter.
Please join us for a Sacred Earth Celebration of the Winter Solstice – a rebirth of the sun, with a luminary walk along Roaring Brook to Diana’s field, where a bonfire awaits.
This walk is offered in quiet reflection with invitations to deepen your connection to nature and yourself. A small closing ceremony will take place at the bonfire as we then prepare for our return walk along the illuminated path.
Registration required. To register.
The group is limited to 10 participants. Social distancing guidelines will be followed. Please wear a mask to the parking lot meet-up.
Folding stools are available for your use or bring along your own stool or sit upon (towel, cloth or mat) for our sitting sessions. Bench seats are available at the bonfire. You may wish to bring along some water or a warm beverage. There are no restrooms at the preserve.
The walk is about 1-mile round trip over easy to moderate terrain. Map of Banningwood Preserve.
Rain cancels. Rain date: December 22.
FREE Event.
Regan Stacy is the founder of Awaken the Forest Within, an organization that offers forest bathing walks. Forest bathing is a supportive practice that invites us to slow down, open our senses, and engage with nature and ourselves as we take in the restorative health benefits of being in the forest. These benefits include lowered stress, blood pressure, and heart rate, increased creativity and focus, and a boost to our immune system. Leave calm and refreshed for the day ahead.
Observe Jupiter and Saturn Almost Merge Into One Big Star for the First Time in 800 years
Time: 3:45-5:00 pm
Place: 106 Tantumorantum Road in Lyme
Contact Email: alan.sheiness@icloud.com
Observe the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn as they nearly merge into one. Their absolute closest approach to each other will actually be the next evening, 12/21, however the closure rate is very slow and we will be afforded a great view on Sunday night 12/20. Learn about how conjunctions occur, and then at dusk we will observe the two planets and some of their moons in a telescope. Time permitting, we will observe the first quarter moon through a telescope, too.
For more information about the Great Conjunction. Jupiter and Saturn Will Appear as One Big Star on Dec. 21 for the First Time in 800 years
Registration required: Limit 10 people
To Register, please email Alan Sheiness – alan.sheiness@icloud.com
Walk with Joe Standart, Photographer–Imagining Lyme
Time: 3:00-4:30
Place: Hartman Park, Main Entrance parking lot, Gungy Rd. Lyme. Changed from Thach preserve
Contact Email: Kristina.white@lymelandtrust.org
The location of this walk has been changed to Hartman Park. The parking lot is plowed. Wear snow boots or snowshoes. You are invited to a walk guided by photographer Joe Standart, to experience light before and after the sun sets. As we explore, Joe will give insight into his creative process for expressing an artistic vision in photography. Joe is an internationally recognized award-winning photographer and a Lyme Land Trust board member.
The walk is part of the new Lyme Land Trust amateur photography program: Imagining Lyme – A Visual Exploration of Lyme’s Preserves, which encourages people to expand their visual awareness while highlighting the beauty of Lyme Preserves through photographs. Participants will be provided with short, simple non-technical photo-taking tips from Joe Standart. The tips suitable for anyone who wishes to enhance their nature photographs, but aimed primarily at amateur mobile phone camera users.
Reservations are required. Space is limited to 10 people including the leader. Please be safe- wear a mask when meeting in the parking lot. Social distancing guidelines will be followed.
Raindate: Sunday December 27, 3 pm.
To reserve, a space on the walk, email: Kristina.white@lymelandtrust.org
