gmcunni
Active member
After a disappointing trip to Shelton earlier in the week i was happy to hear my 14YO son was interested in venturing out again on the weekend. I had heard of Huntington State Park before and it is only about 12 miles from my house. CBCBD mentioned it to me as well and after reading up on it we decided to give it a try. My buddy Jon joined us too.
http://www.ct.gov/dep/lib/dep/stateparks/maps/huntington.pdf
We started off in the SW corner parking lot and decided (based on gut, not facts) that we'd take the BLUE trail. My son studied the map and noticed a mention of ruins in the northeast corner so we headed off to find them. We took the western side of the Blue trail and headed out. First half of the trip was a lot of fun. The Blue trail was mostly a fireroad with some hills. there were little trails going off in all directions which were tougher single track stuff. We hit a few of them to get back on track when we got off course. The trails are well marked with colored tags.
We made it to the ruins. Just before we got there my son OTB'd on a log and ended up with a nice contusion on his stomach. Ruins were cool. A chimney and some foundation. Haven't googled yet to find out what it used to be.
We continued on the Blue trail but it changed dramatically in regards to terrain and difficulty. Steeper hills and tougher single track with lots of rocks and roots. But we managed to get through it all and still had a lot of fun. About 3/4 of the way we got took a short cut over the white and red trails to get back to the parking lot.
We ended up riding for about 2.5 hours. Based on the distances listed on the map i think we covered about 6 miles in total.
Fun ride, we will go back again to try the other trails. Took some pix and video. will post the link when they are done.
http://www.ct.gov/dep/lib/dep/stateparks/maps/huntington.pdf
We started off in the SW corner parking lot and decided (based on gut, not facts) that we'd take the BLUE trail. My son studied the map and noticed a mention of ruins in the northeast corner so we headed off to find them. We took the western side of the Blue trail and headed out. First half of the trip was a lot of fun. The Blue trail was mostly a fireroad with some hills. there were little trails going off in all directions which were tougher single track stuff. We hit a few of them to get back on track when we got off course. The trails are well marked with colored tags.
We made it to the ruins. Just before we got there my son OTB'd on a log and ended up with a nice contusion on his stomach. Ruins were cool. A chimney and some foundation. Haven't googled yet to find out what it used to be.
We continued on the Blue trail but it changed dramatically in regards to terrain and difficulty. Steeper hills and tougher single track with lots of rocks and roots. But we managed to get through it all and still had a lot of fun. About 3/4 of the way we got took a short cut over the white and red trails to get back to the parking lot.
We ended up riding for about 2.5 hours. Based on the distances listed on the map i think we covered about 6 miles in total.
Fun ride, we will go back again to try the other trails. Took some pix and video. will post the link when they are done.
Got a few rides behind you now so you should definitely be ready for tomorrow. Gonna be a fun time.
