Litchfield Hills' link to Spain
Sometimes a ride can provide a history lesson. It was shortly after going through an unlocked gate on to private property and proceeding cautiously down the heavily-rutted, puddle-filled dirt road in Morris that I learned of the road's past. The sloppy half-mile track, which caused my back tire to fish-tail without warning because of the mud, was actually a long-abandoned railroad bed. It was part of a 32-mile line between Hawleyville and Litchfield used by the Shepaug, Litchfield and Northern Railroad in the late 1800s.