Connecticut

Bridgeport, Connecticut is home to 24 miles of waterfront, featuring an impressive coastline and rivers that wind up into its neighborhoods. Currently, around 70% of this land is inaccessible to the public. Working with the City of Bridgeport and local stakeholders, The Trust for Public Land is envisioning a new pathway that will skirt the city’s rivers and shorelines.

Projects in this program ensure that future generations will have access to and enjoy this unique natural resource.

Stonington’s historic Coogan Farm is the largest parcel of undeveloped land between Mystic Seaport and Mystic Aquarium, where the country meets the coast.

For more than five years, The Trust for Public Land worked with the community to safeguard this  lush mosaic of forest, fields, and wetlands in Simsbury.

In May 2010, The Trust for Public Land and partners helped the town of Madison protect this unique coastal site and important natural area rather than proceed with a 127-unit residential development.

For over 500 years, a lone white oak grew in the heart of the East End of Bridgeport, Connecticut. Over a hundred feet tall and nearly 30 feet around, it gained fame as "Connecticut's oldest living resident." It was a place of pride for the East End, and a place where people congregated.

Responding to the growing threat of development in the scenic Litchfield Hills, TPL partnered with the Housatonic Valley Association (HVA) to create a Greenprint, which will help the communities in this area plan for the future.

Less than a half mile from Windsor, Connecticut's vibrant town center sits 95 acres of rolling meadows, shrub wetlands, and over 3,700 feet of the Mill Brook. Miles of trails wind through the park, offering a valuable open space amenity in one of the mostly densely settled parts of Windsor. In addition to ample parking and convenient access, Mill Brook Open Space puts more than 1,200 residents within a 10-minute-walk to the property and its array of passive recreational opportunities.

Dubbed "the Park City," Bridgeport, Connecticut, is looking to live up to its name. In 2012, the city completed a parks master plan, outlining park, open space, and green infrastructure goals. We are working with the City of Bridgeport towards the goal of having every resident live within a 10-minute walk of a quality park

An agricultural enclave in the southwest corner of Connecticut, the village of Southbury, and the surrounding countryside were author and columnist Gladys Taber's writerly muses. Stillmeadow, Taber’s beloved farm, was the "main character" in her popular column and later in more than 50 books set...

In recent years, the rural Housatonic River valley has been threatened
by development. One top priority for local conservationists
has been forested Skiff Mountain, in the towns of Sharon and Kent.

The Trust for Public Land is working with the town and the Burlington Land Trust to help protect this land on Taine Mountain for recreational access, hiking, and wildlife viewing.

The largest remaining open space in Windsor Locks, Water Works Brook is a 198-acres forested parcel with pristine water resources and an extensive trail system for hiking, cross-country skiing, and wildlife viewing.

Century-old Wilkus Farm is one of the last large open spaces in the Hartford suburb of Wethersfield. Many residents have fond childhood memories of playing at Wilkus Farm, a site emblematic of the town's agricultural history. Preserving Wilkus Farm, locals say, keeps the "field" in "Wethersfield."