Tunxis Trail

Now I remember why we don't hike in the summer, bugs, humidity and heat. Only three weeks until fall!

We parked at the south end of the Burlington section of the trail near the causeway for the reservoir.

The first stretch of trail is on a narrow right of way, at one point through someone's back yard.
Eventually the trail moves away from the road and into the 'mile of ledges' section. Lots of ups and downs.

There are several crevices that need to be squeezed through, this one one the best as it had a blank wall for the climb out.

  Eventually the trail levels out a bit and then reaches Greer road. We did a short road walk back to the yellow dot trail. After a bit of a climb we followed the ridge back. Here we skirted the ledges rather than climbed them.

We also walked through several recently logged areas. The trail became quite overgrown with the new growth in the open areas. We passed several obvious party spots along the ledges but managed to miss the 'Tory Den', a cave where loyalists hid during the Revolutionary war. The yellow dot trail then returned to the mainline trail and we retraced our steps to the car.
Would have been a nice hike except for the bugs/humidity/heat. 6.4 miles in 3 hours.