Work Parties

Work Parties are normally held the 2nd and 4th Saturday of the month. Additional work parties may be scheduled in April for High School students needing community service hours. Want to receive email notifications of future work parties and guided hikes?  Visit our sign-up page and enter your email address there. x

September 14, 2024
Saturday, 8:30 AM

Work Party at Housatonic Woods

Help us clear overgrowth on the Paugussett and Woodsend Trails. These trails have been cut a couple times already this year, but stuff just keeps growing! 

Bring: Sturdy footwear, leather work gloves if you have them (there are some thorny shrubs), water. 

Parking: For GPS directions, click HERE. Meet at Sinsabaugh Heights off of Meadow Street. Drive all the way down the hill to the back of the Senior Housing complex, then go left at the bottom to find a few visitor parking spaces near a small dumpster. There is also alternate parking at the end of Mayflower Lane (after parking, walk down the blue-blazed trail to Sinsabaugh Heights). 

Trail Map: (click HERE for link to the map)

SHS Community Service hours: Be sure to bring your own community service form and pen. Fill out the parts you can ahead of time.

Meeting location

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Upcoming 2024 Work Parties

Sept. 28, 2024, Saturday, 8:30 am  Nicholdale Farm. Help us clear overgrowth at Nicholdale Farm. 

Bring: Wear sturdy shoes that can get muddy, work gloves if you have them and bring something to drink. 

Parking:  Click HERE for GPS directions. Meet in the main parking lot, located at 324 Leavenworth Road (just to the WEST of a yellow house).  There will be a "Trailhead Parking" sign at the correct lot. Do not confuse this main lot with the more visible overflow lot, located on the opposite side of the yellow house. 

Trail Map: Click HERE for a trail map. 

SHS Community Service hours: Be sure to bring your own community service form and pen. Fill out the parts you can ahead of time.

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Trail Monitors Wanted!

Want to help outside of regular work parties? Become a Trail Monitor! "Adopt" a trail you walk regularly, remove any small obstructions, and report bigger issues to the Trails Committee. We can clear the trails much faster if we know exactly where the problems are. For details and information on which trails are in need of a Monitor, have a look at the Shelton Trails Monitor blog page.

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Our To-Do List

Wondering what's on our plate? Check our Trails To-Do list.  Let us know if there is something you think should be on there. We might not know about it. 

Meetings: Open to the public,  held the first Wednesday of the month, bring cookies.

Work party schedule: Usually held the 2nd and 4th Saturday of the month.

What to bring: Depending on the season, be sure to bring ample water to drink, bug spray, and gloves (leather gloves are best if there are briars).  Permethrin-based spray on clothing will kill ticks.  Please bring your own tools if possible (depending on the job, this might include pruners, loppers, hand saw, rakes, grub axe, shovel, etc). In most cases, the Trails Committee will bring along a few extra tools, but if more people than expected turn up, there could be a shortage of tools.

After doing trail work: Rubbing alcohol is an effective solvent to remove possible poison ivy sap on skin. Do a thorough tick check every 24 hours.