The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future.

Gifford Pinchot

CFPA is pleased to announce a grant from the Guilford Foundation to assist with construction of a boardwalk and overlook platform at the New England Trail’s southern gateway at Guilford’s Chittenden Park on the Long Island Sound. The grant, totaling $10,000 over 3 years, will be instrumental in developing a sustainably constructed and handicap-accessible trail to the Sound.

The Friends of CT State Parks have funded a video featuring the Centennial Celebration of the State Park System at the Capitol. View the video here to see which legislators have adopted State Parks and what some of them said on camera.

On Saturday, March 30, five WesCFPA members teamed up with six members from Wesleyan's Alpha Delta Phi Society to tackle the formidable pile of lumber behind the tool shed at Highlawn Forest.