Kellogg Environmental Center

TEMJ 19963 - Elder Oaks, Native American Stonework, Deer remains, Beech Leaf Disease, Glacier Erratics, Frances Osborne and the First Hike of the New Year

Firstly, Happy New Year.  Can you believe 2023 is here! The holidays, and the year’s end were a very busy time for me, but I’m back and I have a new journal entry to kick off the new year.

In 2022, I have written about and spent much time on the upper Housatonic River. This journal entry will focus on my recent adventures on the lower Housatonic River - below the Stevenson Dam, just north of Derby, CT along route 34. Here you will find the Kellogg Environmental Center (KEC) and within a one mile radius of the KEC there are two very interesting and little known State Parks.  

Osbornedale State Park is located on the eastern shoreline of the Housatonic River and is just across the street from Kellogg, to it’s east.  Across the river, on the western shore of the Housatonic, is Indian Well State Park. Three really interesting destinations tightly packed within a mile from one another, as the crow flies.

In late 2022 and early 2023 I invested time at the Kellogg Environmental Center and learned much about it and the area surrounding it.  During the last week of November, in the year 2022, I went out to explore Osbornedale State Park and the Kellogg property.  There after, on January 1, 2023, I had a hoot leading a First-Day Hike at Kellogg.  This journal entry will be about these two adventures. But first let me tell you a little bit more about the the Kellogg Environmental Center and the two state parks that CT DEEP operates.

In this entry of The Earthmonk Journal I will tell you about my First Day Hike, Native American Stonework, Deer Remains, Elder Oaks, Beech Leaf Disease, Glacier Erratics, and Frances Osborne.

What is the Kellogg Environmental Center, you ask? Read on and please let me tell you more about it.