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Cathedral Pines is a 42-acre (17 ha) nature preserve owned and managed by The Nature Conservancy [1] in Cornwall, Connecticut.It is an old-growth white pine and hemlock forest which had been donated in 1967 by the Calhoun family who had purchased it in 1883 to prevent logging.
Selden Neck State Park is a 607-acre (246 ha) island and public recreation area on the Connecticut River in the town of Lyme, Connecticut. Accessible only by boat, the state park has four areas for primitive, riverside camping. [2] [3] Hiking, fishing, and hunting are also available.
The camp has five campsites, a dining hall, health lodge, chapel, maintenance building, trading post, field sports range, two cabins, a campfire ring, a camp master cabin and a home occupied by the full time camp Ranger and his family. Camp Soule is used for short-term camping, family camping, training, day camps and various other activities.
This is a list of state parks, reserves, forests and wildlife management areas (WMAs) in the Connecticut state park and forest system, shown in five tables. The first table lists state parks and reserves, the second lists state park trails, the third lists state forests, the fourth lists Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) and the fifth lists other state-owned, recreation-related areas.
Pine Barrens in Rocky Point. In the 1970s the State of New York began acquiring large parcels to create a greenbelt.The federal government at Brookhaven National Laboratory transferred 2,300 acres (9 km 2) in 1971 and RCA transferred 7,200 acres (29 km 2) around Rocky Point in 1978 (for a cost of $1).
Aerial photo of Silver Sands State Park, including Charles Island Silver Sands State Park is a public recreation area located on Long Island Sound in the city of Milford , Connecticut . [ 3 ] The state park consists of 297 acres (120 ha) of beach, dunes, restored salt marsh , open areas and woods as well as the 14-acre (5.7 ha) bird sanctuary ...
Sherwood Island State Park is a public recreation area on the shore of Long Island Sound in the Greens Farms section of Westport, Connecticut. [3] The state park offers swimming, fishing, and other activities on 238 acres (96 ha) of beach, wetlands, and woodlands. Sherwood Island is numbered as Connecticut's first state park because state ...
As interest in camping rose in the 1910s, Bluff Point became a popular destination by the 1920s. Tents and shacks grew into a small community of summer cottages by the 1930s. The owner of the property decided to stop subleasing the property in June 1938, with the termination in October 1 and the removal of the structures by November 1.