Still hiking in in Sandisfield the landscape starts to change, the CT state line is at Mount Prospect but before that an old road veers off to the left of the old Route 8 to a bridge abutment which carries the old road parallel to old Route 8.  Normally underwater the 1953 bride on Route 8 also gets some sunshine.  Massive stumps line the old property lines. 

In South Sandisfield just off Route 8 the old Roosterville Road continues to Colebrook Connecticut, two miles to the state line.  Hiking on the old asphalt is only hikeable when the water levels are very low.  We took advantage of that, and hiked the entire way to the Colebrook Reservoir boat launch 3.5 miles.

The Creation of Colebrook River Lake
The Metropolitan District Commission, a company providing water and other services to the Greater Hartford Connecticut area, with the thought toward providing water resources for the future, in the 1930’s, began buying up available land in the watershed area of the West Branch of the Farmington River. Essentially, this meant the village of Colebrook River would be drowned by the waters behind a dam constructed at a narrow gorge known as “The Hogback”, just east of the Colebrook town line in the town of Hartland.

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