For a quick but deep escape from the grind, you can’t do better than Madison’s Hammonasset Beach State Park. Of the park’s many attractions—the campsites, the boardwalk, the nature center, the salt marsh—the popular headliner is the two-mile westerly beach, where the sand seems impossibly fine for Connecticut’s scratchy coast. But just to the east, […]
Taking Its Course
The centerpiece of the Wepawaug Conservation Area is the Wepawaug River. As a hiker, you can more or less follow its retreat from a reservoir at the edge of Orange to its gentler meeting with Race Brook closer to the town center (more…)
Baby Greens
We’re celebrating 2023 by revisiting some of the year’s best photo essays, each plucked from—and emblematic of—one of the four seasons. Yesterday, we conjured winter. Today? Spring, courtesy of this April 20 essay. (more…)
Wings and Prayers
As the fall season begins, another one is taking off: the fall migration season. (more…)
North Rock
Editor’s Note: Joan R. Mazurek, a longtime neighbor of and advocate for Peter’s Rock Park in North Haven, wrote to us in January with a proposed letter to the editor expressing outrage about the Peter’s Rock Association’s summary installation of mountain biking trails and related infrastructure within the publicly owned park. (more…)