CT - Gay Cy

Contents:

• GAY CY STATE PARK TRAILS
• GAY CY STATE PARK
• GAY CY STATE PARK
• THE 10 BEST AMSTERDAM GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS AMSTERDAM
• GAY CY STATE PARK TRAILS GUI
• THE EASY 4.9 MILE GAY CY RED BLAZ TRAIL WILL LEAD YOU THROUGH THE CONNECTICUT FORT
• GAY CY TRAIL
• GAY CY STATE PARK
• HIKE GAY CY POND SPL ROCK
• BIKE TRAIL CONNECTICUT, TOLLAND COUNTY 01 :14 HRS 2.4 MI 41.550995 FT EASY ROCKY TRAIL GAY CY STATE PARK2GAY CY STATE PARK: OUTER LOOP CONNECTICUT, TOLLAND COUNTY 01 :15 HRS 4.8 MI 33.830322 FT HARD THIS MOUNTA BIKG ADVENTURE THROUGH GAY CY STATE PARK UTILIZ THE RED-BLAZED OUTER LOOP TRAIL. THE TRAIL HAS A BATN OF EASY, TERMEDIATE AND DIFFICULT PARTS THAT N BE VERY TECHNIL. THE AREA IS PRISTE AND BETIFUL, OFFERG GREAT SCENERY. BE APPRISED THAT THERE ARE SOME SGLE TRACK SECTNS. ALSO, THERE ARE SOME EROD AND ROCKY SECTNS PECIALLY NEAR THE TERSECTN WH THE GAY CY TRAIL.3GAY CY STATE PARK: BIKE TRAIL CONNECTICUT, TOLLAND COUNTY 01 :15 HRS 4.8 MI 33.830322 FT HARD THE LAND THAT IS GAY CY STATE PARK ED TO BE A L TOWN, HEBRON; THE ONLY REMAS ARE SOME FOUNDATNS AND WATER DCH. SOME OF THE FEATUR OF THIS TRAIL CLU THICK WOODS, A UPLE SMALL BODI OF WATER AND A SMALL STREAM. BE APPRISED THAT THIS TRAIL IS EQUENTED BY HIKERS. ALSO, DOGS ARE ALLOWED THE PARK BUT THEY MT BE KEPT ON A LEASH.4GAY CY STATE PARK: WT TRAIL CONNECTICUT, TOLLAND COUNTY 00 :33 HRS 1.5 MI 29.010239 FT EASY GAY CY STATE PARK OFFERS AROUND 1,500 ACR OF PEACEFUL WOODS, PONDS, SWAMPS AND HISTORIL REMAS. GAY CY WAS STARTED BY A RELIG SECT THAT ISOLATED THEMSELV THIS AREA. SOME OF THE FEATUR OF THIS HIKE CLU SWIMMG, FISHG, PIIC TABL, OUTDOOR FIREPLAC AND GREAT FORT AND POND VIEWS. THE FORT IS FULL OF ALL SORTS OF FLORA CLUDG MAPLE, BIRCH AND OAK TRE. BE APPRISED THAT DOGS MT BE KEPT ON A LEASH AND THERE IS A PARKG FEE. 5BLACKLEDGE TRAIL CONNECTICUT, HARTFORD 00 :40 HRS 1.9 MI 22.17302 FT EASY THIS HIKG ADVENTURE WDS AROUND BLACKLEDGE POND AND BLACKLEDGE FALLS. THE TRAIL FOR THIS HIKE ARE WELL MATAED AND HAVE BEEN BLAZED BLUE AND WHE. BLACKLEDGE FALLS WILL BE MORE IMPRSIVE AFTER A RA OR DURG A WET SEASON; SOME HIKERS PLA THAT THE FALLS N BE UNIMPRSIVE AT LOW WATER. YOU N FOLLOW A NUMBER OF TRAILS WHICH WE DIDN'T HAVE TIME TO DO. OVERALL THE TRAILS ARE PRETTY, AND THE VIEWS OF BLACKLEDGE POND ARE ALSO VERY NICE. THERE IS ALSO SCENT FISHG BLACKLEDGE POND.6GAY CY STATE PARK: ORANGE TRAIL CONNECTICUT, TOLLAND COUNTY 00 :49 HRS 1 MI 21.141891 FT EASY GAY CY STATE PARK OFFERS AROUND 1,500 ACR OF PEACEFUL WOODS, PONDS, SWAMPS AND HISTORIL REMAS. GAY CY WAS STARTED BY A RELIG SECT THAT ISOLATED THEMSELV THIS AREA. SOME OF THE FEATUR OF THIS HIKE CLU SWIMMG, FISHG, PIIC TABL, OUTDOOR FIREPLAC AND GREAT FORT AND POND VIEWS. THE FORT IS FULL OF ALL SORTS OF FLORA CLUDG MAPLE, BIRCH AND OAK TRE. BE APPRISED THAT DOGS MT BE KEPT ON A LEASH AND THERE IS A PARKG FEE. 7GAY CY STATE PARK: NORTHEAST

GAY CY STATE PARK TRAILS

Gay Cy State Park nsists of 1, 569 acr Hebron, Bolton, and Glastonbury and has loopg trails totalg almost 10 . The blue-blazed Gay Cy Trail provis accs to the longer blue-blazed Shenips Trail to the wt.

Gay Cy State Park is named for John Gay, who was the first print of a muny found 1796 that clud 25 fai. For years, Gay Cy prospered wh several ls powered by the Blackledge River.

GAY CY STATE PARK

However, 1879, Gay Cy beme a ghost town when the last l burned to the ground. Cellar hol, stone walls, l s, a cemetery, and historic roads are evince of the settlers who labored to create a muny Gay Cy. The trails are anized to three ma rout, marked wh different blaz: Gay Cy Trail (blue), Outer Loop (red), and Pond View Trail (whe).

Gay Cy State Park Map. Gay Cy State Park. Gay Cy is also the se of an annual Hartford Marathon event lled the Summer Solstice Trail Run wh 3.

GAY CY STATE PARK

There is a beach for swimmg at Gay Cy Pond.

THE 10 BEST AMSTERDAM GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS AMSTERDAM

The Geology of Gay Cy State Park. Mounta Bikg at Gay Cy State Park.

CTMQ – Gay Cy State Park Trails (2009). Peter Marteka – Rus of Gay Cy Awas Hikers Here (2008).

GAY CY STATE PARK TRAILS GUI

Peter Marteka – Gay Cy: A Trip Back Time (2000).

“We Built This Gay Cy… We Built This Gay Cy on Rocks and Roll(g Hills)! It’s always around this pot my wrg that I realize no one r, so I’ll jt get to and prent the var trails of Gay Cy as logilly as possible.

THE EASY 4.9 MILE GAY CY RED BLAZ TRAIL WILL LEAD YOU THROUGH THE CONNECTICUT FORT

Shenips/Gay Cy Connector Trail (Blue/Whe blaz). One n accs Gay Cy om the wt via one of the two nnector trails, both of which nnect to the blue-blazed Gay Cy Trail leadg to the state park. Case Mounta and s trail work li northwt of Gay Cy State Park and you n get om there to here if you know what you’re dog some of the creepit woods the state.

You n accs Gay Cy om Birch Mounta Road like I did for the hik. OR you uld jt park at the Gay Cy parkg lot. Gay Cy Trail, 1.

The Gay Cy Trail is your gateway to the state park om the wt.

GAY CY TRAIL

It’s a flat, wi trail and very most likely ed to be a road back when Gay Cy was a btlg l “town. From the DEEP’s Gay Cy State Park se:. Loted on the Hebron-Bolton town le, Gay Cy’s 1, 569 acr of parkland offer swimmg, piickg and an almost endls opportuny for exploratn.

GAY CY STATE PARK

The name “Gay Cy” riv om a now-extct l town that once occupied the se.

Gay Cy was first settled 1796 by a relig sect led by Elijah Ands and later by Rev. The Gays soon prised the majory of the 25 or more fai who then lived the muny. Gay Cy’s fate changed wh the succs and failur of several mercial enterpris.

Soon after, the l burned down, triggerg the fal mise of Gay Cy and nature’s reclaimg of the land. After passg by , the Gay Cy Trail to an end and your only optn keep hikg forward is to head north on the…(Contue below). Startg at the eastern term of the Gay Cy Trail, along the entrance road right near route 85, the trail heads north and eas out very near the by road.

HIKE GAY CY POND SPL ROCK

The trail abptly heads due south along the old dirt French Road before ultimately htg the Gay Cy Trail aga. The southern half of the loop (south of the Gay Cy Trail) is the most remote area wh the park and hs some nice stands of pe and hemlock as well as a few pond overlooks and stream crossgs.

WHILE IT MANAGED to survive, after a fashn, for some eighty years, Gay Cy was never, as s name seemed to suggt, eher a center of metropolan merriment or a ty versn of San Francis. Not until 1953, when the area where Factory Hollow once stood was turned over to the State of Connecticut for e as a state park, did the Gay Cy name bee firmly attached to the place. There was an irony this, too, sce was scendants of the powerful Sumner fay, which for years battled the Gay fay for village domatn, who creed that the state e the Gay name for the new public recreatn area.

So, though “Factory Hollow” or “Sumnertown” should have been, Gay Cy — wh all the possibili herent the word “Gay” — is, today. If the tradnal stori about the settlement are credible, there was trouble, right there Gay Cy, almost om the begng.

BIKE TRAIL CONNECTICUT, TOLLAND COUNTY 01 :14 HRS 2.4 MI 41.550995 FT EASY ROCKY TRAIL GAY CY STATE PARK2GAY CY STATE PARK: OUTER LOOP CONNECTICUT, TOLLAND COUNTY 01 :15 HRS 4.8 MI 33.830322 FT HARD THIS MOUNTA BIKG ADVENTURE THROUGH GAY CY STATE PARK UTILIZ THE RED-BLAZED OUTER LOOP TRAIL. THE TRAIL HAS A BATN OF EASY, TERMEDIATE AND DIFFICULT PARTS THAT N BE VERY TECHNIL. THE AREA IS PRISTE AND BETIFUL, OFFERG GREAT SCENERY. BE APPRISED THAT THERE ARE SOME SGLE TRACK SECTNS. ALSO, THERE ARE SOME EROD AND ROCKY SECTNS PECIALLY NEAR THE TERSECTN WH THE GAY CY TRAIL.3GAY CY STATE PARK: BIKE TRAIL CONNECTICUT, TOLLAND COUNTY 01 :15 HRS 4.8 MI 33.830322 FT HARD THE LAND THAT IS GAY CY STATE PARK ED TO BE A L TOWN, HEBRON; THE ONLY REMAS ARE SOME FOUNDATNS AND WATER DCH. SOME OF THE FEATUR OF THIS TRAIL CLU THICK WOODS, A UPLE SMALL BODI OF WATER AND A SMALL STREAM. BE APPRISED THAT THIS TRAIL IS EQUENTED BY HIKERS. ALSO, DOGS ARE ALLOWED THE PARK BUT THEY MT BE KEPT ON A LEASH.4GAY CY STATE PARK: WT TRAIL CONNECTICUT, TOLLAND COUNTY 00 :33 HRS 1.5 MI 29.010239 FT EASY GAY CY STATE PARK OFFERS AROUND 1,500 ACR OF PEACEFUL WOODS, PONDS, SWAMPS AND HISTORIL REMAS. GAY CY WAS STARTED BY A RELIG SECT THAT ISOLATED THEMSELV THIS AREA. SOME OF THE FEATUR OF THIS HIKE CLU SWIMMG, FISHG, PIIC TABL, OUTDOOR FIREPLAC AND GREAT FORT AND POND VIEWS. THE FORT IS FULL OF ALL SORTS OF FLORA CLUDG MAPLE, BIRCH AND OAK TRE. BE APPRISED THAT DOGS MT BE KEPT ON A LEASH AND THERE IS A PARKG FEE. 5BLACKLEDGE TRAIL CONNECTICUT, HARTFORD 00 :40 HRS 1.9 MI 22.17302 FT EASY THIS HIKG ADVENTURE WDS AROUND BLACKLEDGE POND AND BLACKLEDGE FALLS. THE TRAIL FOR THIS HIKE ARE WELL MATAED AND HAVE BEEN BLAZED BLUE AND WHE. BLACKLEDGE FALLS WILL BE MORE IMPRSIVE AFTER A RA OR DURG A WET SEASON; SOME HIKERS PLA THAT THE FALLS N BE UNIMPRSIVE AT LOW WATER. YOU N FOLLOW A NUMBER OF TRAILS WHICH WE DIDN'T HAVE TIME TO DO. OVERALL THE TRAILS ARE PRETTY, AND THE VIEWS OF BLACKLEDGE POND ARE ALSO VERY NICE. THERE IS ALSO SCENT FISHG BLACKLEDGE POND.6GAY CY STATE PARK: ORANGE TRAIL CONNECTICUT, TOLLAND COUNTY 00 :49 HRS 1 MI 21.141891 FT EASY GAY CY STATE PARK OFFERS AROUND 1,500 ACR OF PEACEFUL WOODS, PONDS, SWAMPS AND HISTORIL REMAS. GAY CY WAS STARTED BY A RELIG SECT THAT ISOLATED THEMSELV THIS AREA. SOME OF THE FEATUR OF THIS HIKE CLU SWIMMG, FISHG, PIIC TABL, OUTDOOR FIREPLAC AND GREAT FORT AND POND VIEWS. THE FORT IS FULL OF ALL SORTS OF FLORA CLUDG MAPLE, BIRCH AND OAK TRE. BE APPRISED THAT DOGS MT BE KEPT ON A LEASH AND THERE IS A PARKG FEE. 7GAY CY STATE PARK: NORTHEAST

In 1800 John Gay was officially appoted “print” of the lony, while the Rev. John Gay and his brother Ichabod apparently shared wh Sumner the rponsibily of admisterg the muny’s affairs, though the relatnship between them was never rdial. Most people (90% I’d say) e to Gay Cy for the ltle beach and swimmg pond.

The trail mak a very meanrg loop around the pond (only g wh sight of for a send) and ends along the Gay Cy Trail near the cemetery towards the park entrance. Acrdg to legend, alhol was the prcipal factor ntributg to Gay Cy’s next upheaval. As the dnken brawls and blasphemo language of the male parishners ntributed more and more to the general civic unrt, a number of the first fai of the lony packed up and left Gay Cy, rettlg the Hockanum River regn of East Hartford and Glastonbury, and along the banks of the Connecticut River to the south.

John Gay and the remag fai cid that the survival of the stgglg muny pend on some sort of enomic stimul, somethg to brg jobs and e to rints whose tert the lony was flaggg, and maybe even spire new populatn growth. So, after choosg a se about a quarter of a e down river om Still Pond, the Gay Cy folks, aid the back-breakg enterprise by outsi laborers reced om neighborg towns, began nstctn of a woolen l. The l began operatn unr the name William Strong and Company around 1810 and, for a brief time, provid a wele boost to the Gay Cy enomy.