2021-1-17, Lowry Woods, Madison, CT

 On 2021-1-17,  I went back to the Lowry Woods area in Madison, CT.  I also attempted to find the Indigo Woods Trail.  I made an interactive map of my explorations on which I put location numbers that I will refer to.  Below is a static screenshot of the interactive map.


Here's a link to the interactive map: https://arcg.is/1KWr90 .

1.  I  parked on a wood-chip-covered pull-off on the west side of Warpas Road.

I made my way southerly on trails that were mostly blue-blazed that traveled through a preserve owned by Madison Land Conservation Trust that is labelled "Lowry Woods on the Madison Land Conservation Trust's interactive trail map.  For reasons that are unclear to me, the Lowry Woods trails don't appear on the Madison Land Conservation Trust's .pdf maps, although an approximation of the Lowry Woods trails appear on the Madison Land Conservation Trust interactive trail map, available at https://mlct.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=19fe3f662a7a40b9bbeeada299251d86 .  The legend suggests that the Lowry Woods trails are "proposed," although they seemed to have been at least ten years old, judging by the state of the blazes and signage.  

2.  Below is a picture of what I think is a large eastern red cedar.



3. I think this is a dead eastern red cedar.

4.  This blowdown made the mostly unblazed trail that it blocked hard to follow.


5.  A complex blowdown on a trail that was fairly consistently blazed with blue blazes.


6.  One of a pair of small holly trees.


7.  This is a picture of a complex blowdown on a blue-blazed trail that led southwesterly towards a set of trails called Indigo Woods that does appear on both the Madison Conservation Trust interactive trail map and on a Madison Land Conservation Trust .pdf map.  Here's the link to the .pdf map: http://www.madisonlandtrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/MLCT_Indigo_Woods.pdf .



8.  A reasonably clear trail led to this point on the Neck River.


9.  I found blue blazes, this sign, another sign that read, "Indigo Woods MLCT 15," but no actual trails in the Indigo Woods area.


10.  There were blazes on both sides of the river here suggesting that this is a ford.  I did not try to cross the river.


Near 11.  One of the many small tributaries to the Neck River.


11.  I could spot blue blazes on the other side of the river here also.  I, again, did not try to cross the river.


11.  The blazes suggested that the trail had gone maybe fifty feet further upstream before crossing the river.


12.  As far upstream as I got.  I was approaching a stretch where there was nowhere to walk between people's backyards and the river.  The Madison Land Conservation Trust maps suggested that there was a blue-blazed trail across the river from here.

Below is a screenshot from the Madison Land Conservation Trust interactive trail map showing the Indigo Woods Trail.  Accompanying the Madison Land Conservation Trust .pdf map of the Indigo Woods Trail is a description that describes an interesting-sounding old mill site.















David Reik

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