Our four mile hike today took us into the Lyme Corner Trails in Connecticut. This area consists of Hartman Park, Walbridge Woodlands and Philip E. Young Preserve. We only did about a third of the trails in this complex of preserves, parks and woodlands.
There are four different parking areas for this trail system on Gungy Road. We parked at the Field Entrance. The trails we explored were the Yellow to the Red to the Green Red, back to the Red, to the Orange, a bit on the Park Road (purple) to Orange to Blue to Orange and returned on the Yellow we entered in on.
Our first sight was Lily Rock close to the beginning of the hike.
Our our way to Turtle Rock we meandered about in the woods. There were numerous bridges over small streams throughout the trail system.
Returning to the Red Trail we traipsed across the “bald nubble”.
From here we made our way over to the next sight, an overlook that included powerline viewing.
After the overlook and briefly losing the orange trail, but finding it again, we continued on the orange to the blue trail only to return to the orange to see “the flume”.
The orange trail led us to the yellow trail and back to our car.
We wandered for about four miles in the forest. After our hike we headed over to Niantic to try out a new brewery, Noble Jay. Always good to enjoy a pint after a hike. This was a well spent morning, exploring the forests of Lyme, Connecticut.
CTHikergal Travels 
Leave a Reply