OCP CONNECTICUT WALKS

The hills of Windham County across the four towns have reverted to quiet woodlands and fields as the population has moved away from the farms and villages that once populated the countryside. The passage of time has transformed the land into a unique place with "dark" night skies. Viewed from space at night, the East Coast megalopolis is a continuous strip of city lights that stretches over 600 miles, all the way from DC to Boston. Except for one last dark spot: the Quiet Corner. This area is one of the last vestiges of Southern New England’s dense forests. They provide clean water and air, climate amelioration, wildlife habitat, timber and non-timber forest products, and recreation.Visitors to the towns along the Old Connecticut Path have opportunities to enter a world that is closer to that which might have been experienced by those first pioneers traveling to Connecticut. While their world can never be fully restored, there are places along the Path where imagination can transport visitors back in time. To walk here as the pioneers did is to gain an understanding of the courage and faith of those who walked from Newtown (Cambridge), Watertown and Dorchester to their new homes in Connecticut.