Middletown 2016 Trail Guide!

Letter from the Commission!
Dear Reader, The Middletown Conservation Commission is pleased to provide you with this second edition of our guide to Middletown’s open spaces and trails. This guide is an invitation to the citizens of Middletown and its visitors to explore the City’s important and varied natural treasures.

You will find information about our conservation lands in the City that provide a variety of passive recreational opportunities, including hiking, walking, jogging, cross country skiing, bicycling, canoeing and kayaking, and last but not least studying nature. Many of the City’s open spaces have notable geological, scenic and ecological features. This guide provides directions to the popular well-used open space areas, as well as less familiar spots throughout the City.

Each of these properties offers diverse opportunities for exploration and enjoyment: traversing broad open fields, following winding trails through wooded terrain, climbing rocky crags or paddling along lush water ways, and observing a variety of wildlife from birds to foxes, and deer to turtles. In season, the flowering trees and shrubs offer a colorful array. Autumn is particularly spectacular. All of the awesome beauty of nature flourishes within the City’s conservation properties waiting for you to discover it.

As you visit the City’s trails keep in mind that they may change over time, thus the descriptions included in the guide may not reflect the current status or condition of trails. Developed over a period of years, the guide has been a major undertaking of the Commission, made possible with assistance from many volunteers from the community. We thank them all for their efforts to bring this guide to fruition. This guide is for you, the citizens of Middletown and visitors. We hope you will use it often to enjoy our City’s special natural resources.
Happy exploring!

CLICK HERE FOR THE COMPLETE INTERATIVE TRAILS GUIDE

Also, click below for the City Website
www.middletownplanning.com/committees/cc/conservation.html