771 acres in Burlington, CT
Parking: Large lot near 341 Milford St, Burlington, CT
Trail Map Trails: 4 miles Rating: ★★★☆☆
Sessions Woods is far and away one of the most popular Wildlife Management Areas in the state thanks to it’s nature center, hiking trails, fire tower overlook, waterfall, and scenic views.
Beaver Pond Trail – 2.6 miles
Crosscut Trail – 0.4 miles
Tree ID Trails – 0.4 miles
Forest Meadow Trail –0.5 miles
Acquired by the state in 1981 or 1982 from the Sessions family. In the mid-1800s John Humphrey Sessions moved from Vermont to Bristol and started J. H. Sessions & Sons, a firm specializing in trunk hardware. The family acquired several tracts of land in Bristol and Burlington. In 1957, the Sessions family sold one of these in Burlington to the New York Conference of the Methodist Church who operated it as a summer camp. The Church could no longer afford to operate the summer camp and so put the land up for sale in 1980. The State was interested in purchasing, but there was a developer willing to pay double so a group of Burlington residents banded together to form the Friends of Sessions Woods and convinced the church to sell it to the state.
In 2004, Sessions Woods acquired a large additional tract of land from the New Britain Water Department, almost doubling the size of the protected area.
Connecticut History – Saving Sessions Woods (2022)
CTMQ – Sessions Woods WMA (2014)
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