Nature Walk

Join us for an early autumn walk through the woods and learn more about this special Joshua Trust property in Mansfield!   Register here.

Start the New Year off in nature! Join Laurie Gypson for a winter walk around Pigeon Swamp Preserve in Lebanon. This event is weather dependent. Register at: https://secure.lglforms.com/form_engine/s/2Cdj-DUDKTyaKLL_8M1dpA

Guided walk of interesting features on the Knowlton Hill Preserve trails. Register at: https://secure.lglforms.com/form_engine/s/PK2OVL6BlgAylETUcLYbdw?t=1674587655

Join Robert M. Thorson for his third annual Joshua's Trust Earth Day Walk-and-Read. This year we will hike the new Tower Hill Preserve in Chaplin, carefully examine its stone walls for clues to Earth history, and share one-minute passages of nature writing on the significance of rock and stone in our lives, figuratively and symbolically. […]

Join us at Hubbard Sanctuary for a leisurely walk through multiple habitats. Hubbard Sanctuary is a fairly flat, 1.4 mile loop that takes approximately 40 minutes to complete. We will begin behind the Chaplin Town Hall where the yellow-blazed trail runs along a large, protected grassland habitat. From there we will continue until we reach […]

Join us at Tinkerville Brook in Ashford for a gorgeous walk through mountain laurel thickets and down into a mixed wetland habitat. The loop through Tinkerville Brook is  just over a mile long and will take around one hour to complete. The terrain is varied here with some small rocks and roots to navigate. Narrow in […]

Join us at Tinkerville Brook in Ashford for a gorgeous walk through mountain laurel thickets and down into a mixed wetland habitat. The loop through Tinkerville Brook is  just over a mile long and will take around one hour to complete. The terrain is varied here with some small rocks and roots to navigate. Narrow in […]

Join us at Hubbard Sanctuary for a leisurely walk through multiple habitats. EDIT: We're going to offer the opportunity to visit Agnes' Pasture which adds a short but steep hill and an additional 1/4 miles through beautiful white pines and open meadow. We'll have multiple walk leaders on hand if you'd rather stick to the […]

Join Master Naturalist, Deb Field, for a walk on Joshua's Trust's new Tower Hill trail. This will be a moderate 2.5 mile hike through successional forest and wetland with fabulous stone walls and a peak at a waterfall on Stonehouse Brook. Park in the field to the west of the property. Click HERE for a […]

Join us at Utley Hill Preserve in Columbia, CT for a beautiful post Thanksgiving, #OptOutside, wilderness walk.  The loop in Utley Hill Preserve is  approximately 2.50 miles long and will take us roughly 1 and 1/2 hours to complete. We will  meet at the Columbia Recreation Park at 60 Hennequin Rd. After you pull into […]