Permission to Camp along the M&M Trails in CT!

[czimborbryan]

It has taken me months of painstaking research without the slightest help from the Connecticut Forest and Park Association. Anyway, I have come up with a list of private landowners that may be willing to grant special permission to camp on their property while backpacking the M&M Trails through Connecticut.

Even though these landowners had granted me and my friends special permission, it should not be taken for granted that they will grant permission to anyone. I suggest requesting permission at least three weeks before taking the excursion to allow for the red tape. It is also wise to use Leave-No-Trace camping ethics and to avoid using open fires.

The Mattabesett Trail has 9 potential camping areas that I found. If granted permission to camp at these locations, it would be easy to plan a backpacking trip with fairly reasonable mileage between locations.

The Metacomet Trail has only 6 potential camping spots that I could find and some may require a marathon effort between locations. Even so, the Metacomet is still able to be backpacked.

For contact information of the landowners, please follow this link Camping Link.

A big sarcastic thank-you should go out to the Connecticut Forest and Park Association for making this project possible. If it wasn't for them, camping would have been established years ago. I had requested their assistance with this project, but they had refused to cooperate. They seem to be under the impression that camping will somehow ruin a backpacking trail.

[MichaelJ]

Thank you for this excellent information!

[David Metsky]

Well done.