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The Last Green Valley National Heritage Corridor is a federally designated National Heritage Corridor in northeastern Connecticut and portions of Massachusetts. It has a rural character with rolling hills, farmland and classic New England scenery. This area was designated because it is one of the last remaining stretches of green in the Boston to Washington, D.C. heavily urbanized corridor. The valley also has the largest stretch of dark night sky in the Northeast megalopolis corridor. It contains some of the largest unbroken forests in Southern New England, in a region of Connecticut known as the Quiet Corner.




Geography


The corridor consists mostly of the Eastern New England Upland, transitioning to the coastal forests to the south and east. The rolling hills in the southern part of the Corridor become more rugged in the northern part of the corridor. The highest elevation is 1,315 ft (401 m) Burley Hill in Union, CT.
The corridor has a high concentration of state parks, state forests and other reserves, such as the Yale-Myers Forest, Pachaug State Forest, and the Norcross Wildlife Sanctuary. Of the area's over 700,000 acres, over 77% is made up of forest and farms. The 35-town region is home to over 300,000 people. The Last Green Valley is half the size of Grand Canyon National Park and more than ten times that of Acadia National Park, New England's only national park.
The over 1,100 square miles of protected territory extend from the northernmost point of East Brookfield, Massachusetts to the southernmost point of Preston, Connecticut.




History


Beginning in the 1980s, developmental pressures pushed citizens into creating organizations to protect lands, especially farmland from development. A report in 1988 by the National Park Service outlined solutions and it led to the creation of the Quinebaug and Shetucket Rivers Valley National Heritage Corridor in 1994. It was expanded in 1999 to include several communities in Massachusetts. In December 2014, Congress passed a law officially renaming the area the Last Green Valley National Heritage Corridor.

Boston Hollow
Bigelow Hollow State Park
Chelsea Harbor, historic downtown Norwich, Connecticut
Historic Norwichtown Green
Leffingwell House Museum
Pachaug-Great Meadow Swamp
Uncas Leap Heritage Area, Norwich, Connecticut




Recreation


Air Line State Park Trail
Beaver Brook State Park, Windham, Connecticut
Bigelow Hollow State Park, Union, Connecticut
Brimfield State Forest, Brimfield, Massachusetts
Buffumville Lake, Oxford, Massachusetts
East Brimfield Lake, Sturbridge, Massachusetts
James L. Goodwin State Forest, Hampton, Connecticut
Hodges Village Dam, Oxford, Massachusetts
Hopeville Pond State Park, Griswold, Connecticut
Killingly Pond State Park, Killingly, Connecticut
Mansfield Hollow Lake, Mansfield, Connecticut
Mansfield Hollow State Park, Mansfield, Connecticut
Mashamoquet Brook State Park, Abington, Connecticut
Mohegan Park, Norwich, Connecticut
Mohegan State Forest, Scotland, Connecticut
Mooween State Park, Lebanon, Connecticut
Mountain Laurel Sanctuary, Union, Connecticut
Natchaug State Forest, Eastford, Connecticut
Nathan Hale State Forest, Coventry, Connecticut
Nipmuck State Forest, Union, Connecticut
Norcross Wildlife Sanctuary, Wales/Holland, Massachusetts
Norwich (Chelsea) Harbor Water Trail, Norwich, Connecticut
Old Furnace State Park, Killingly, Connecticut
Pachaug State Forest, Sterling, Voluntown, Griswold and Plainfield, Connecticut
Pomeroy State Park, Lebanon, Connecticut
Quaddick State Park, Thompson, Connecticut
Quinebaug Lake State Park, Killingly, Connecticut
Ross Pond State Park, Killingly, Connecticut
Streeter Point Recreation Area, Sturbridge, Massachusetts
Yale-Myers Forest, Union, Connecticut
Wells State Park, Sturbridge, Massachusetts
West Thompson Lake, Thompson, Connecticut
Westville Lake, Sturbridge, Massachusetts




References






External links


Official site: The Last Green Valley, Inc
Tourism site: The Last Green Valley Tourism

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• Kota New York
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• Last Green Valley National Heritage Corridor
• National Heritage Area
• Union, Connecticut
• Quiet Corner
• Bigelow Hollow State Park
• National Scenic Byway
• Shetucket River
• Cuyahoga Valley National Park
• Kensal Green
• Qu'Appelle River