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  • Great Avalonia Trail Trek 2020

    Do you want to help save land? Do you like getting a good workout in? If you answered yes to both of those questions, then you should sign up for…

  • Leo Antonino Preserve Family Hike

    Leo Antonino Preserve 0 Antonino Road, Groton, CT, United States

    Date: Sunday, June 5  Time: 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm Hike Leaders:  Janet Anderson and Robert Volkmann   Join us for family-friendly hike celebrating CT Trails Day at the Leo Antonino Preserve in Groton.  The trail travels through mature woods, along vernal pools and active brooks, and near erratics and upthrust sections of granite. Parts…

  • TriTown Forest Preserve Hike

    TriTown Forest Preserve 91 Miller Road, North Stonington, CT, United States

    Sunday, June 5 Time: 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm Hike Leader: Stephen Colgan   Join us for a leisurely 2.5 mile hike in the TriTown Forest Preserve.  We will follow the yellow trail which is generally flat but does have some short climbs and descents.  If you look on the All Trails App, the trail…

  • Cedar Wood Preserve

    Hike Cedar Wood Preserve

    Cedar Wood Preserve 180 North Wawecus Hill Rd., Norwich, CT, United States

    CT TRAILS DAY EVENT: This year, Avalonia’s is hosting three events during the annual Connecticut Trails Day event.  This hike is at one of Avalonia’s newest acquisitions and only Norwich property, Cedar Wood Preserve —47 acres of field, woods, and water. This 1.4-mile hike goes through an upper trail with open fields and good birding opportunities and through a lower forested trail. This will be a moderate hike with some hills/slopes…

  • Herman E. Sheets Family Forest

    Double Stroll Through The Herman E. Sheets Family Forest

    Sheets Family Forest Puttker Road, North Stonington, CT, United States

    CT TRAILS DAY EVENT: This year, Avalonia’s is hosting three events during the annual Connecticut Trails Day event.  This event is an adventure at The Herman E. Sheets Family Forest, an 87-acre picturesque preserve that lies adjacent to the Green Fall River which opened last year. It's a mixed forest with ponds and brooks to be…

  • Henne Preserve

    Beavers, Bird Calls, and Brilliant Bugs

    Babcock Ridge 113 Babcock Road, North Stonington, CT, United States

    CT TRAILS DAY EVENT: This year, Avalonia’s is hosting three events during the annual Connecticut Trails Day event.  Join Avalonia naturalist Bruce Fellman for this special family-friendly exploration of two adjoining refuges (Babcock Ridge and D.R. Henne Memorial & Shunock Brook Preserves), which are among the Conservancy’s most ecologically diverse preserves. Accompanying us on this…

  • Explore the Preston Nature Preserve’s Field of Natural History Dreams

    Preston Nature Preserve Krug Road, Preston, CT, United States

    Explore Preston Nature Preserve’s Field of Natural History Dreams Don’t be fooled: a natural meadow may look like an unkempt lawn that a lazy homeowner has taken a holiday from mowing, but look closer and you’ll discover an amazing and fascinating array of biological diversity. The Preston Nature Preserve (PNP) offers explorers a pathway through…

  • Vernal Pool Adventure at Babcock Ridge

    Vernal Pool Adventure at Babcock Ridge – CANCELLED

    Babcock Ridge 113 Babcock Road, North Stonington, CT, United States

    CANCELLED DUE TO WIND AND RAIN. NEW DATE TBD.   There’s no better way to celebrate the arrival of spring than to visit a woodland pond alive with the sights and sounds of newly awakened amphibians and invertebrates — and there’s no more exciting time to do so than at dusk when the local vernal…

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  • Hepatica photographed by Jodi Williams at Benedict Benson Preserve.

    Honoring Earth Day with a Wild Flora Walk at the Benedict Benson Preserve

    Benedict Benson Preserve Swantown Hill Road, North Stonington, CT, United States

      Led by Avalonia naturalist Bruce Fellman, trek through the Benedict Benson Preserve to watch its uplands, centerpiece stream, and wetlands come to life with greening ferns, mosses, and wildflowers, from the rare Hepatica to the ubiquitous marsh marigolds. REGISTER HERE   One of the critical precursors of the passage of the Clean Water Act,…

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  • Hike a Wildlife Habitat Restoration at Leo Antonino Preserve

    Leo Antonino Preserve 0 Antonino Road, Groton, CT, United States

    CT TRAILS DAY EVENT: We’ll hike the Leo Antonino Preserve through forested areas, past active brooks, vernal pools, and up a bedrock ridge. There is a go-around for those who want to avoid the scramble up the ridge. We will pass next to erratics deposited by the glaciers and see how the Earth’s crust has…

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