CT Trails Day

Trails Day is a two-day national event. For more information on CT Trails Day, please click here. Registration, masks and social distancing are required.
NO FEE for participation. 15 person maximum (includes leader)

Trails Day Tree ID Walk
Saturday, June 5
10 a.m. to noon
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Trees provide us with air and shade while also supporting wildlife. Join our local volunteer tree enthusiast, John for this 1.5 walk which will focus on some of the 50+ native trees found at Deer Pond Farm. We’ll walk through an area of pines, hemlocks, and spruces, and then through deciduous woods and teach you how to identify trees.

Trails Day Ecology Hike
Saturday, June 5
12:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
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Join conservation biologist Jim Arrigoni on a 4 mile hike to one of the farthest corners of Deer Pond Farm, the southern terminus of Carolyn’s Trail. Along the way, we’ll pause to enjoy different habitats including forests, meadows, streams, and vernal pools. We’ll point out any critters that we may encounter. This hike is moderately strenuous due to a quarter-mile hill, but it is well worth the effort!

Trails Day Habitat Highlights Hike
Sunday, June 6
10 a.m. to noon
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Cathy Hagadorn, director at Deer Pond Farm will lead this hike, stopping to highlight several of our habitat enhancement areas. This will include the Bird & Pollinator Garden, the Fall Migration Rest Stop and the Cathedral Trail Bird Ecotone. Plantings, nest box program and invasive species management will be discussed.