Past Events
Trailblazers – Walk at Hartman Park
Date: Tue November 14, 2017Time: 10:00 am
Place: Meet at Hartman Park Parking Lot
Contact Email: openspace@townlyme.org
Presenter: Lyme Land Conservation Trust and Town of Lyme
Join us for this moderate walk in the woods. There are exposed roots on some of the trails and a few inclines. Everyone is welcome.
On this hike, we will explore the Hartman Park section of the Lyme Corner Trails led by Wendolyn Hill, Lyme Land Trust board member and Open Space Coordinator for the Town of Lyme. The hike is about 2.5 miles long with an option for short cuts along the way. We walk through diverse habitat and visit remnants of a farming community that existed 150 years ago.
Rain Cancels.
The Hartman Park Entrance is on Gungy Road about 1 mile north of the 4-way stop signs at the intersection of Beaverbrook Road, Grassy Hill Road, and Gungy Road.
Trail Trimming Work Party at Jewett Preserve
Date: Fri November 10, 2017Time: 9:30-11:30am
Place: Jewett Preserve Cemetery Entrance
Contact Email: openspace@townlyme.org
Join us for this moderate walk in the woods at the Jewett Preserve in Lyme. We will hike and trim the rest of the white trail at the Jewett Preserve, led by Wendolyn Hill, Lyme Land Trust board member and Town of Lyme Open Space Coordinator. We will cut back stems and saplings that are encroaching on the path as we walk, and pull up invasives if possible. Bring along heavy-duty gloves and loppers. If you have a light-weight power weed-wacker that you can carry along, that would be appreciated and helpful.
Rain cancels.
Directions: Rt. 156 north to left on Mt. Archer Road. Travel about 1.25 miles. The Jewett Cemetery Entrance is on the right.
Trailblazer Walk- Halloween Ravine Trail
Date: Tue October 31, 2017Time: 9:30am
Place: The Ravine Trail, Joshuatown Road Entrance, Lyme
Contact Email: openspace@townlyme.org
On Halloween, Tuesday, October 31 at 9:30am, join us on a hike a the Ravine Trail in Lyme led by Wendolyn Hill, Lyme Land Trust board member and Open Space Coordinator for the Town of Lyme. Who knows what we will find at this, our spookiest preserve. It’s full of mysteries. Bring your walking stick. There are a few rough rocky areas.
Meet at the Selden Creek Preserve entrance on Joshuatown Road in Lyme.
Rain Cancels.
Directions: Rte 156 North to left on Joshuatown Road (about 5 miles from I-95); travel about 4 miles to park entrance on the left.
Trailblazer Walk- Banningwood Preserve
Date: Fri October 27, 2017Time: 9:30am
Place: Banningwood Preserve, Town Street (Rte. 82), Lyme
Contact Email: openspace@townlyme.org
Join us for a moderately easy walk at Banningwood Preserve on Tuesday, October 27 at 9:30 am. Everyone is welcome.
We will explore Banningwood Preserve led by Wendolyn Hill, Lyme Land Trust board member and Town of Lyme Open Space Coordinator. The hike is a about 2 miles. Banningwood is a beautiful preserve with meadows, mature forests, cedar groves, and dramatic rock outcroppings. Roaring Brook meanders through it.
There are a few rocky areas so don’t forget to bring your walking stick!
Photo by Humphrey Tyler, Eagle Scout project at Banningwood 2016.
Rain cancels.
Directions: The Preserve parking area is less than 1/4 mile north of Hadlyme Four Corners on Town Street (Rte 82). Look for the sign. From Rt. 156 West (going north): At the end of Rte. 156, turn left onto Rte 82. At the flashing red stoplight (Hadlyme Four Corners), turn right to continue on Rte 82W (going north). The parking area is less than 1/4 mile on the right.
Brockway-Hawthorne Preserve Opening Celebration
Date: Sun October 22, 2017Time: 2:00 pm
Place: Brockway-Hawthorne Preserve Parking Lot, Brush Hill Road, Lyme CT.
Contact Email: Info@LymeLandTrust.org
Please join us for the opening of the Land Trust’s newest property, the Brockway-Hawthorne Preserve. This 82 acre preserve has been developed with a network of trails that traverses all the beautiful places, from Savannah-like open fields bordered by stone walls to some of the last remaining hemlock stands in Lyme. Parts of the trails meander along Whalebone Creek with wonderful rocky outcroppings and crossings on bridges built by Dominion Power Station volunteers. The trails connect with the existing system at the Ravine Trail, which in combination with Selden Creek Preserve, offers an amazing network of trails with many diverse habitats.
After the dedication, join Ralph Lewis former State of CT geologist and Tony Irving, forest ecologist for a short walk looking at the long and short-term land-use history of the preserve. We’ll see how bedrock and glacial geology shaped the land dictating how it has been worked over the centuries.
Directions: Brush Hill Road parking lot entrance is 1/2 mile south of the Hadlyme Country Store at Hadlyme Four Corners, the intersection of Rte. 82, Brush Hill Road, and Rte. 148, in Lyme. If the lot is full, park along road.
Raindate: October 22, 2pm
Volunteer Work Party at Walbridge Woodlands
Date: Tue October 17, 2017Time: 9:30-11:30 am
Place: Meet at Hartman Entrance Park Parking Lot, Gungy Road, Lyme
Contact Email: openspace@townlyme.org
Presenter: Lyme Land Conservation Trust and Town of Lyme
Join us to work on changing the route of the White Trail at Walbridge Woodlands led by Don Gerber and Wendolyn Hill, Lyme Land Trust board member and Open Space Coordinator for the Town of Lyme. Bring along heavy duty gloves and trimmers and weeders, pruners, and/or loppers, and rakes. If you have a light-weight power weed-wacker or pruner that you can carry along, that would be appreciated and helpful.
Rain Cancels.
The Hartman Park entrance parking lot is on Gungy Road about 1.5 miles north of the 4-way stop signs at the intersection of Beaverbrook Road, Grassy Hill Road, and Gungy Road.
Photo by Wendolyn Hill: Work Party at Jewett Preserve
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Trail Trimming Work Party at Eno Preserve
Date: Sun October 15, 2017Time: 1:30-3:30pm
Place: Eno Preserve, Mt. Archer Road. Park in Jewett Preserve Cemetery Parking area
Contact Email: openspace@townlyme.org
Postponed from October 8 to October 15.
Join us for this moderate hike and trail trim at the Eno Preserve, led by Wendolyn Hill, Lyme Land Trust board member and Town of Lyme Open Space Coordinator. The entrance area needs clearing and we will cut back stems and saplings that are encroaching on the path as we walk, and pull up invasives if possible. Bring along heavy-duty gloves and loppers. If you have a light-weight power weed-wacker that you can carry along, that would be appreciated and helpful.
Rain cancels.
Directions: Rt. 156 north to left on Mt. Archer Road. Travel about 1.25 miles. The Jewett Cemetery Parking area Entrance is on the right. Eno Preserve entrance is across the road.
Red Trail Trimming Work Party at Jewett Preserve
Date: Tue October 10, 2017Time: 9:30-12:00am
Place: Jewett Preserve Cemetery Entrance
Contact Email: openspace@townlyme.org
Join us for a hike to trim the red trail at the Jewett Preserve, led by Wendolyn Hill, Lyme Land Trust board member and Town of Lyme Open Space Coordinator, Liz Robinson from the Nature Conservancy. It is a bit of a hike to get to the red trail. We will cut back plants and saplings that are encroaching on the path as we walk, and pull up invasives if possible. Bring along heavy-duty gloves and loppers. If you have a light-weight power weed-wacker or pruner that you can carry along, that would be appreciated and very helpful.
Rain cancels.
Directions: Rt. 156 north to left on Mt. Archer Road. Travel about 1.25 miles. The Jewett Cemetery Entrance is on the right.
Celebrating Lyme’s Beauty ~ Paint-Out at Moulson Pond
Date: Sat October 7, 2017Time: sunrise to sunset, registration starts at 9am, 1 Honey Hill Ln, Lyme, CT
Place: Moulson Pond, Mt Archer Road, Lyme CT
Contact Email: info@lymelandtrust.org
The 6th Annual en plein air Paint-Out sponsored by the Lyme Land Conservation Trust and Lyme Art Association will be held again on October 7, due to unsettled weather on Saturday September 30.
The paint-out continues the tradition established by the early American Impressionists who founded the Lyme Art Colony over a hundred years ago. All plein air artists are invited to join their colleagues for a beautiful Spring weekend of outdoor painting and camaraderie.
The Red Mill at Moulson Pond, a historic landmark on the Eightmile River, is believed to be the original structure built by Duncan MacIntosh as a grist mill circa 1785. The building had almost continuous business use until it became a residence in the 1950s.
Directions: Rte. 156 to Mr. Archer Road. Continue over Bridge (Red Mill on left; Moulson Pond on right). Left after Bridge onto Honey Hill Lane.
Works created during the 2017 Paint-Out are eligible for exhibition and sale during the Celebrating Lyme’s Beauty Exhibition, to be held at the Lyme Art Association from November 10, 2017 through Januray 5, 2018.
For more information about registration, directions and parking, call the Lyme Art Association at (860) 434-7802 or contact jocelyn@lymeartassociation.org
Photo: Moulson Pond Red Mill by Susan Henderson
Trailblazers walk- Patrell Preserve
Time: 9:30-10:30 am
Place: Meet at Patrell Preserve Parking Lot, Baker's Lane, Lyme
Contact Email: openspace@townlyme.org
Join us for this moderately easy walk in the woods at the Patrell Preserve in Lyme and East Haddam, led by Wendolyn Hill, Lyme Land Trust board member and Town of Lyme Open Space Coordinator. Everyone is welcome. The Preserve has about 3000 feet of footage along the Eightmile River and an awesome footbridge over the river!
Rain cancels.
Directions: Rt. 156 about 8 miles north from I-95 in Old Lyme to right on Baker Lane. The parking area is 1/2 mile on the left near 11 Baker’s Lane.
After the walk, join the Nature Conservancy at Ed Bill’s Former Dam on Salem Road, Lyme to remove Japanese hops growing around the newly planted trees. Meet at 10:30 to help hand pull the plants.
