Testone Boulder Loop Guide

Testone Boulder Loop Trail Guide

Testone Boulder Loop Guide
Testone Boulder Loop Guide

The Testone Boulder Loop Trail is a CFPA Blue Blaze 1.8 mile loop in Sunnybrook State Park near Torrington in CT. Its relatively flat and meanders through the woods with stream crossings and a large triangular boulder about half way round.

Testone Boulder Loop Trail – At a Glance…

Short 1.8 Mile Loop in Sunnybrook State Park

Easy Terrain with a few rock hopping sections and very little elevation change

Easy Parking at the trail head

Trail connects to the nearby John Muir Trail.

Testone Boulder Loop

Full Guide

The Testone Boulder loop seems to be one of the less known trails in the Blue Blaze CFPA series. In fact a search online gave me almost no information about it. The trail starts and finishes at the car park.

We chose to do the loop anti-clockwise which meant we crossed a large stream with a little bridge early on and worked our way round across varies sections of trail that often have small rocks and roots intertwined along it.

Testone Boulder Loop Trail Guide
Testone Boulder Loop Trail Guide

Testone Boulder

 About half way round is the Dino Testone Boulder, named after a Connecticut mineralogist. It’s a glacial erratic.

Testone Boulder Loop Trail Guide
Testone Boulder Loop Trail Guide

As you come to near the end of the loop the trail opens up into a wide field with a windsock in the distance. As a pilot I was confused as to why it looked like an airfield when it was clearly impossible to get an aircraft safely in and out of the area, but when I got home I found out that this area is popular with model aircraft enthusiasts!

Testone Boulder Loop Trail
Testone Boulder Loop Trail

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