Past Events
Tuesday Trek: Plimpton Preserve
Time: 9:00 am -11:00 am
Place: Park across from the entrance on the side of Sterling City Rd. near Old Stone Post Rd.
Contact Email: anthonyinlyme@gmail.com
Presenter: Tony Irving
Some steep hills, but short hike to overlook. 1.75 mile loop with some walking on the road.
View the Tuesday Trek Schedule
Join us for a refreshing morning walk on a Lyme preserve led by a board or staff member of the Lyme Land Trust. The leaders will alternate each week between Sue Cope, Wendy Hill, Tony Irving, and Kristina White with Brady, canine guide. The walks are about two hours and are moderately easy unless noted. Bring a water bottle and dress for the weather. Reservations are required. Contact walk leader to reserve.
Fall Colors Forest Bathing
Time: 1:30 - 3:30 pm
Place: Brockway-Hawthorne Preserve, Brush Hill Road, Lyme CT
Contact Email: regan@reganstacey.com
Relax and unwind on a guided forest bathing experience among the colors of fall. Enjoy a gentle, mindful stroll as you relax and connect with the restorative powers of nature. Your certified forest therapy guide, Regan Stacey, will offer you a series of invitations or prompts designed to awaken your senses to the natural world and all that autumn has to offer. The walk is about 1-mile over easy to moderate terrain. Folding stools are available for your use, or bring along your own stool or sit mat.
The walk concludes with a wild-foraged tea.
Registration: $32 ~ includes the program and tea
Lyme Land Trust members receive a 15% discount with code: LLT15
Register here.
This is a rain or shine event.
Forest bathing is inspired by the Japanese practice of Shinrin-yoku – taking in the forest atmosphere. As a growing global wellness movement, it is backed by nearly 40 years of scientific research on the holistic benefits of immersing yourself in nature. These benefits include reduced stress and blood pressure, increased creativity and focus, improved mood and sleep, and a boost to immune functions. Regan Stacey is an artist, environmentalist and yoga instructor, whose passion is to re-connect humans to nature for the betterment of themselves, their communities, and our planet, Earth. She is also co-founder of The Forest Therapy School, training forest therapy guides to share this work around the world. Locally, she is involved in a number of nature-based organizations and facilitates kids’ clubs through the Lyme Land Trust. You can find out more about her work at reganstacey.com
Tuesday Trek: Brockway Hawthorne Preserve
Time: 9:00 am -11:00 am
Place: Park at Joshuatown Rd Entrance by the Cedar Hill (Selden) Cemetery
Contact Email: kristina.white@lymelandtrust.org
Presenter: Kristina White
Walk an old road and onto our longest walkway over wetlands. Pass stone walls and laurel groves. Park at Joshuatown Rd Entrance by the Cedar Hill (Selden) Cemetery – 3 miles
Contact: Kristina.white@lymelandtrust.org
View the Tuesday Trek Schedule
Join us for a refreshing morning walk on a Lyme preserve led by a board or staff member of the Lyme Land Trust. The leaders will alternate each week between Sue Cope, Wendy Hill, Tony Irving, and Kristina White with Brady, canine guide. The walks are about two hours and are moderately easy unless noted. Bring a water bottle and dress for the weather. Reservations are required. Contact walk leader to reserve.
Meadow Walk with Pete Picone: Jewett Preserve
Time: 1:30-3:30 pm
Place: Jewett Preserve, McIntosh Road, Lyme CT
Contact Email: openspace@townlyme.org
Join Pete Picone, CT DEEP wildlife biologist and native habitat expert, for a tour of the meadow and surrounding shrub-land in Jewett Preserve. He will identify plants and make recommendations for nurturing the vegetation that provides habitat for wildlife. Learn about which plants are beneficial for pollinators, and how to manage invasives. His guidance can be applied to enhancing habitat in your own back yard.
Co-sponsored with the Lyme Pollinator Pathway and the Town of Lyme.
Registration required: openspace@townlyme.org
Park in the lot on McIntosh Rd, about 1/4 mile from the intersection with Rte 156.
Imagining Lyme–Photo Submission Deadline – Summer
Time: midnight
Place: Submit photos to Imagining Lyme website
Contact Email: education@lymelandtrust.org
The Lyme Land Trust program Imagining Lyme: A Visual Exploration of Lyme’s Preserves encourages everyone to expand their visual awareness and highlight the beauty of the Lyme preserves owned by the Lyme Land Trust, the Town of Lyme and the Nature Conservancy by taking photographs prompted by inspiration from professional photographers and artists.
Photographers do not have to be residents of Lyme but all photos must be taken in Lyme in any of these places:
- Lyme Preserves owned and/or managed by the Lyme Land Trust, Town of Lyme, and The Nature Conservancy View a map of the preserves
- Pollinator/wildlife habitat– May be in a backyard, preserve or in a Lyme Pollinator Pathway garden in Lyme, CT.
The deadline for the Summer category-photos taken in the Summer–is September 30, 2022. For more information.
Tuesday Trek: Johnston Preserve
Time: 9:30 am -11:30 am
Place: Johnston Preserve parking lot on Rte 82.
Contact Email: openspace@townlyme.org
Presenter: Wendy Hill
We will walk an approximately 3 mile loop past the highest point in Lyme, and along the white trail with beautiful overlooks
Contact: openspace@townlyme.org
View the Tuesday Trek Schedule
Join us for a refreshing morning walk on a Lyme preserve led by a board or staff member of the Lyme Land Trust. The leaders will alternate each week between Sue Cope, Wendy Hill, Tony Irving, and Kristina White with Brady, canine guide. The walks are about two hours and are moderately easy unless noted. Bring a water bottle and dress for the weather. Reservations are required. Contact walk leader to reserve.
Bees Knees Social
Date: Tue September 27, 2022Time: 5:30-7:30 pm
Place: The Old Lyme Inn, Old Lyme CT
Contact Email: sue.cope@lymelandtrust.org
Join Lyme Pollinator Pathway and the Lyme School PTO for a fireside social for Lyme School friends, faculty, staff and new Lyme School Principal Allison Hines. For more details, click on poster to enlarge.
Tree Collective- Teen Steward Group Meet-up
Time: 1:00-4:00 pm
Place: Pleasant valley Preserve, Macintosh Road, Lyme
Contact Email: reganstacey@gmail.com
The Tree Collective is a program designed to engage young conservationists ages 14-18 in outdoor fun and education while working to maintain trails in our beautiful town of Lyme, CT. It is sponsored by the Lyme Land Trust under the leadership of environmentalist/artist Regan Stacey. Each time we meet, we offer a different topic, often with a hike and trail work in a selected preserve.
Tools and gloves provided.
Registration required: reganstacey@gmail.com.
Meet at the parking lot on Macintosh Road, Lyme about 1/4 mile from Rte. 156.
Autumn Equinox Forest Bathing (Date change to September 24)
Time: 10:00 am-12:00 pm
Place: Banningwood Preserve, 19 Town Street, Lyme CT
Contact Email: regan@reganstacey.com
Join us in honoring the autumnal equinox as we turn towards the light within and restore balance for the season ahead. On this first day of fall, enjoy a mindfully guided walk through Banningwood Preserve as we awaken the senses and the body — connecting with the cycles of nature and all of life.
The walk concludes in Diana’s field with a wild-foraged tea.
Folding stools are available for your use, or bring along your own stool or sit mat.
The walk is about 1-mile over easy to moderate terrain.
Registration: $32 ~ includes the program and tea
Lyme Land Trust members receive a 15% discount with code: LLT15
Register here.
This is a rain or shine event.
Forest bathing is inspired by the Japanese practice of Shinrin-yoku – taking in the forest atmosphere. As a growing global wellness movement, it is backed by nearly 40 years of scientific research on the holistic benefits of immersing yourself in nature. These benefits include reduced stress and blood pressure, increased creativity and focus, improved mood and sleep, and a boost to immune functions. Regan Stacey is an artist, environmentalist and yoga instructor, whose passion is to re-connect humans to nature for the betterment of themselves, their communities, and our planet, Earth. She is also co-founder of The Forest Therapy School, training forest therapy guides to share this work around the world. Locally, she is involved in a number of nature-based organizations and facilitates kids’ clubs through the Lyme Land Trust. You can find out more about her work at reganstacey.com
Tuesday Trek: Young Preserve
Time: 9:00 am -11:00 am
Place: Young Preserve on Gungy Road, 1/2 mile north of the intersection with Beaver Brook.
Contact Email: anthonyinlyme@gmail.com
Presenter: Tony Irving
A bit of a climb to the top, then the trails are mostly flat and easy with abundant mountain laurel and mature forest. Meet at Young Parking lot on Gungy Road, 1/2 mile north of the intersection with Beaver Brook.
Contact: anthonyinlyme@gmail.com
View the Tuesday Trek Schedule
Join us for a refreshing morning walk on a Lyme preserve led by a board or staff member of the Lyme Land Trust. The leaders will alternate each week between Sue Cope, Wendy Hill, Tony Irving, and Kristina White with Brady, canine guide. The walks are about two hours and are moderately easy unless noted. Bring a water bottle and dress for the weather. Reservations are required. Contact walk leader to reserve.
