2020-6-16, Breezy Hill Preserves, Canton, CT

On 2020-6-16, I visited a set of properties owned by Canton Land Conservation Trust in the vicinity of Breezy Hill Road.  Here's a link to the interactive map I made showing where the pictures below were taken: http://arcg.is/ifG0a .

Below is a static screenshot of my interactive map.


1.  The sign for the parking lot on Breezy Hill Road was obscured by vegetation.


2.    Lots of recent work had been done to remove blow-downs, but I did find this tree across the trail.


3.  Self portrait on wall.


4.  The blazes on the green trail were almost non-existent, but the area where the green trail met Barbourtown Road was nicely mown.


4.  I explored this trail.


5.  People had actually put in some gravel on the new trail.



Near 5.  A nicely mown pull-off where the new trail meets the junction of Breezy Hill Road and Barbourtown Road.


6.  A cliff near the green trail.


7.  Was this a sugar maple in its lifetime?


8.  Some species of oak in the red-oak family.


8.  Maybe the leaves let us know what the species is.


9.  I walked (twice!) a new red trail.  This is the sign where the new red trail meets the yellow trail.  Who are, or were, Fred and Miller Feibel?


10.  Where the yellow trail meets the blue trail.  So, the yellow trail is called the Arthur and Eunice Sweeton Trail.


11.  Looks like the same species as the tree at 8.


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14.  A mown track that led to private property.


15.  I think archaeologists refer to stone structures such as the one I am standing on as "rock piles."







David Reik

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