Meriden's Best Kept Secret

[Rizzo]

Have you read "The Secret Garden?" Well, Meriden has just such a secret. Be sure to stop by the beautiful new linear walk which starts at Red Bridge and runs about 2 miles along the Quinnipiac River. It is just beautiful. It's a great place to walk, with a friend, with your dog or with kids. There's parking across the street, right on Hanover Pond. I think the Parks and Recreation Department folks take care of it. Try it, you'll like it.

[catnap]

I have walked that - with a friend and dogs. It's an nice easy little hike...very pretty. Accross the street left of the old Humane Society is a nice walk in there...as long as the ATVs stay out.

Giafridda (sp) park as some great trails also. some easy - some more challenging.

Meriden has so few unpopulated spaces left.

[stagehog01]

Meriden has almost no nice places left. Our taxes are going up with the crime rate. You can't walk the streets any more, with out fear of being robbed. Or at least wondering when the local begger will come out asking for money that you know he will use for booze, or drugs.
One guy had a good story. His son was in an accident in Hartford and need money for the train....next time it was the same story, but three years later. I came right out and told him if his son was that accident prone, he should be dead by now. Call me cruel but with all the taxes we honest people pay his welfare check should be enough to keep him well stocked.

[UNiRAC]

I have walked that - with a friend and dogs. It's an nice easy little hike...very pretty. Accross the street left of the old Humane Society is a nice walk in there...as long as the ATVs stay out.
Giafridda (sp) park as some great trails also. some easy - some more challenging.
Meriden has so few unpopulated spaces left.
;) Thx for the Positive, I noticed Meriden in 1992 and moved here in 2001 and am still discovering better life here than most places in Fairfield County. [Cos Cob, Port Chester, Rye, Stamford, Bridgeport and I have even lived in Greenwich twice]

[Eastside Bill]

It is a beauty and we need to keep encouraging the city to save and preserve open space like this.

[catnap]

;) Thx for the Positive, I noticed Meriden in 1992 and moved here in 2001 and am still discovering better life here than most places in Fairfield County. [Cos Cob, Port Chester, Rye, Stamford, Bridgeport and I have even lived in Greenwich twice]

Have you walked up to Castle Craig yet?

you can do it alone...but they also have group hikes up West Peak.

I'm curious - what's better here?...those all sound like nice places ('cept Bridgeport :) -)

[UNiRAC]

Have you walked up to Castle Craig yet?
I'm curious - what's better here?...those all sound like nice places ('cept Bridgeport :) -)
Meriden, where?!? Don't Dis on B'port because it has a better Beach [Seaside Park aka Barnum's Circus field] than here, 2 Museums [ PT Barnum on Main St -I-95 and one on the FAIRFIELD border by Rt 15] and the ONLY Zoo in Conn., Captains' Cove, St. Mary's-by-the-Sea and water fowl are welcome [ unlike Greenwich - although they have a few museums too]:D

[Golden Gooch]

You are as right as rain ! There are right here in the Silver City two best kept secrets ; The newly opened liner part by Red Bridge , and the walk up to Castle Craig . Let us add one more , the part of town ; Along West Main Street going out Southington way . Off the track, I nicknamed Southington " The little West Hartford". The area surrounding Hubbard Park . Oh and one more ; Along Chamberlain Highway into New Britain (New Britsky) .So much for the nice places .