CARcasses

Having only just begun my plan to hike all of Connecticut’s trails (2007), I quickly came to realize that, for some reason, Nutmeggers like to leave their old cars to rot out in the woods. Often, I scratch my head and wonder how the heck they got them there in the first place. And so, here’s my ode to these rusted out hunks of junk found in the middle of nowhere.

1. Salmon River Trail, mile 3.5, Colchester

massive mid-70′s sedan

2. Metacomet Trail, just north of Shuttle Meadow Road, Plainville

Car door with smiley face

3. Tunxis Trail (Compounce Ridge), 2 miles in from Bristol end

Early 80′s station wagon

4. Tunxis Trail (Compounce Ridge), 2 miles in from Bristol end

Not quite sure

5. Tunxis Trail (White Dot), Along Blueberry Hill Rd, Harwinton

Old Ford Fairlane?

6. Mattabesett Trail, North side of Lamentation Mountain, East Berlin

I’ll say it’s a Trabant, since it’s in East Berlin

7. Mattabesett Trail, North side of Lamentation Mountain, Middletown

Old station wagon of some sort

8. Mattabesett Trail, North side of Lamentation Mountain, Middletown

Ford Falcon, childhood car of CTMQ

9. Mattabesett Trail, Mid Beseck Ridge, Wallingford

Upside down 80′s sportscar!

10. Mattabesett Trail, Mid Beseck Ridge, Wallingford

Jeep thing

11. Mattabesett Trail, Along Nedobity Road, Haddam

Two old VW bugs, neither of which look “alive”

12. Mattabesett Trail, at Bear Hill Loop’s westernmost junction, Middletown

This is enough of a car to call it a CARcass.

13. Bear Hill Loop, just south of the westernmost Mattabesett junction, Middletown

One of the more intact specimens I’ve seen

14. Eddy Loop, McLean Game Refuge, along Firetown Road, Granby

The motherlode.

15. Eddy Loop, McLean Game Refuge, along Firetown Road, Granby

Old snowplow thing

16. Paugussett Trail, just off of train tracks

Borderline car

17. Old Woods Road near Ragged Mountain Trail

Rollover

18. Old Woods Road near Ragged Mountain Trail

Ugly racist car

19. Woods road crosses Pomperaug Trail, Oxford

The Mystery Machine has been found