David Reik, Photo Blog

 On Sunday, 2021-8-29, I hiked a section of the Narragansett Trail in North Stonington, CT.  The Narragansett Trail is a Connecticut Forest and Park Association trail.  The CFPA likes to be made aware of any fallen trees and overgrown sections on their trails so I have included information about fallen trees and overgrown sections in this blog post. I made an interactive map showing my route in pink and including location numbers which I will use to give readers of this post an idea of where I took the pictures below.  Here's a link to the interactive map:  https://arcg.is/05DHzD  .  Here's a static screenshot of the interactive map. 1. I parked in a pull-off on Ryder Road near 1.  Maybe three cars could fit in the pull-off.  I walked 166 feet up an unblazed trail to this sign which was on the blue-blazed Narragansett Trail.   2.  I followed the Narragansett Trail westerly along Ryder Road and across CT-2 onto a mown path that led across a bridge over the spillway for a dam tha

 I first visited Sunrise and Machimoodus State Parks on 2015-7-30 on an Appalachian Mountain Club hike.  I went back on another AMC hike on 2016-9-15.  On my own, I visited the state parks on 2021-8-24, 2021-8-25, and 2021-8-26. I made an interactive map of the parks with location numbers that I will refer to.  Here's a link to the interactive map:  https://arcg.is/zC1ve  . 1.  Here's a picture from my 2015 trip.  This was at the boat launch which had its own large parking lot.  To get to the boat launch parking lot from Route CT-151, you enter from a different entrance from the entrance for Machimoodus State Park.  I think the flowers were on purple loosestrife plants.  In the background was the Salmon River.  What is now Sunrise State Park used to be a resort with various entertainments.  The paved road that went through the resort are still there, although some are overgrown.  You can still see the tennis courts. 2.  This was a plant that I saw a lot of in Machimoodus State