Parmelee Farm, Again LbNA #67037 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Bluebird  |
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| Plant date: | Jun 6, 2014 |
| Location: | Parmelee Farm |
| City: | Killingworth |
| County: | Middlesex |
| State: | Connecticut |
| Boxes: | 2 |
| Found by: | Not yet found! |
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| Last found: | N/A |
| Last edited: | Jun 6, 2014 |
Parmelee Farm, Again!
Planted in honor of another Trails Day event here, and the opening of the Welter Woods Trail. Thank you, Bruce Dodson!
About an hour walk; kid friendly, 1-1.5 miles of fairly level terrain. 2 boxes.
Enter the farm property on Route 81 in Killingworth, just south of the intersection with Route 148 and just north of the HK Middle School. Park by the community gardens; head to the right, keeping the pond to your right. Follow the small white sign to trails. Cross the small bridge by the pond, head across the field and enter the woods by the white/red signpost.
Head to the right on red, and over the little bridge. You will pass one trail to the middle school marked with a small white sign, and the second, unmarked, trail to the school. Just after that, take the new purple trail as it splits off to the right. When you see a ledge off to the left, after a low stump on the right, about 40-50 feet off trail, head to it. See the tree growing on top? Look under the slanted rock about 10 feet behind it, for Best Time Spent.
Back to the purple trail. Soon you will see much more dramatic ledges on the left. There will be a rocky stream crossing. You will parallel a retirement "village" for a while. If you were still on the red trail, you would be at the overlook at the top of the ledges to your left.
When the purple trail splits, go right. There will be a large blazed tree on the right. Look behind the oak tree on the left, across from it for Tread Lightly.!
Re-trace your steps, or continue over the bridge, head left, completing the "lollipop" by going left again to cross another bridge and rejoining the purple. If you do not head left over the second bridge, you end up at the Welter Woods parking area on Roast Meat Hill Road (start of a different series!). I hope you enjoyed our new trail and property!
Planted in honor of another Trails Day event here, and the opening of the Welter Woods Trail. Thank you, Bruce Dodson!
About an hour walk; kid friendly, 1-1.5 miles of fairly level terrain. 2 boxes.
Enter the farm property on Route 81 in Killingworth, just south of the intersection with Route 148 and just north of the HK Middle School. Park by the community gardens; head to the right, keeping the pond to your right. Follow the small white sign to trails. Cross the small bridge by the pond, head across the field and enter the woods by the white/red signpost.
Head to the right on red, and over the little bridge. You will pass one trail to the middle school marked with a small white sign, and the second, unmarked, trail to the school. Just after that, take the new purple trail as it splits off to the right. When you see a ledge off to the left, after a low stump on the right, about 40-50 feet off trail, head to it. See the tree growing on top? Look under the slanted rock about 10 feet behind it, for Best Time Spent.
Back to the purple trail. Soon you will see much more dramatic ledges on the left. There will be a rocky stream crossing. You will parallel a retirement "village" for a while. If you were still on the red trail, you would be at the overlook at the top of the ledges to your left.
When the purple trail splits, go right. There will be a large blazed tree on the right. Look behind the oak tree on the left, across from it for Tread Lightly.!
Re-trace your steps, or continue over the bridge, head left, completing the "lollipop" by going left again to cross another bridge and rejoining the purple. If you do not head left over the second bridge, you end up at the Welter Woods parking area on Roast Meat Hill Road (start of a different series!). I hope you enjoyed our new trail and property!