Bethany Land Trust Trails

Bethany Land Trust Trails
Bethany (duh)

Connecticut has three towns with female names. The interesting thing about this is that each town bearing a feminine name sort of matches the type of woman I think about when I picture a woman with that name.

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Darien: Wealthy, white, yuppie, long straight hair, uppity.
Sharon: Older, stodgy, uptight, woodsy.
Bethany: Wallflower, plain, quiet, never know where she is, exactly.

Don’t bother arguing my comparisons, for that’s just science. (You should see the attendant study on our male names, I mean, poor Franklin and Morris. Know what I’m sayin’?)

I am as familiar with Connecticut’s 169 towns as anyone. Drop me anywhere, blindfolded, and I’d know where I am almost immediately… except for maybe Bethany. I just don’t have much Bethany experience. I’ve never known a Bethany I don’t think and it remains one of the least explored towns (by me) to date.

But they have a land trust! With decent maps!

The Bethany Land Trust, Inc. is a private, charitable, non-profit corporation dedicated to serving Bethany Connecticut through the conservation of land. Formerly known as the Bethany Conservation Trust, it was established by Bethany residents in 1968 to protect the Trust’s first donation, a 27-acre tract of land that was generously donated by Marion Jenkins.

Since that time, the Trust has acquired 13 other parcels in outright fee ownership and accepted 13 conservation easements, bringing the total acreage under its protection to about 420 acres.

I guess we can now say that I’m now going to walk all over Bethany. Which just doesn’t sound nice at all… but it’s just a Bethany, y’know? She’s probably used to it.

Bethany Land Trust
Properties and Maps

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The Hikes:

These are just the properties with trail maps:

Ida Carrington Lowell Land
Mendell’s Folly
Welch Parcels
Edna L. Delano Nature Sanctuary & Rodell’s Roost for Robins
Bethany Farms
Hein Trails

Bethany Airport Trails (non land trust)

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CTMQ’s Land Trust Trails Page
CTMQ’s Non-CFPA Trails page

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