Talk:Quinnipiac Trail

Diverse cleanup

_ _ I did some syntactic fixes, and corrected mistatements in the lead.
_ _ "Old Hartford Turnpike" was apparently an old name for at least what is now Hartford Turnpike in Hamden, but the QT turns from Tolles onto Hartford Turnpike, adjacent to South Turnpike Rd in Wallingford, no more than 200 ft north.
_ _ Removed

Nearest access to this northerly trailhead is from Roaring Brook Rd. in Cheshire.

which is nonsense: p. 238 of the Walk Bk volume i cited shows about 4 miles of trail left north of the close approach of RBRd, 3 of them N of the falls, with Cornwall Ave. being the viable parking with direct access to the trail. 4/10 mile along Chatfield Rd gives, or gave, access to a 4/10-mile stretch of level field and wooded trail shown by Google but not the Walk Bk: perhaps still part of the trail for the sake of getting a DoT sign for the trail at Chatfield and Rte. 68, but in any case far beyond Roaring Brook.
--Jerzy•t 10:37, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Y-shaped

_ _ At the end of the old second 'graph, i simply dumped this:

The trail's shape is roughly that of an inverted "Y".

-- which followed

(5.1 miles east/west).

because:

1. As to SGSP portion of the Q Trail:
   1. It certainly doesn't describe that portion, which does not branch.
   2. Nor is the very short (250 ft?) blue-blazed connector trail (between Mill River and the picnic area) part of (a branch in) the park's "Blue Trail" -- which is exactly the park's portion of the Q Trail -- nor if it were perversely considered part, does the result significantly resemble a Y in that orientation
   3. Nor does it have in the park (except one a very small scale) sharp bends or an overall change of direction by more than about 30°: from roughly W-ward to roughly WSW-ward.)
2. Topologically, the combination of the Regicides Trail (not part of this topic!) and Q-Trail is Y-like in having three pieces meeting a common point, and it is somewhat like an inverted lower-case cursive "y" in that
   1. the W-bound Q goes away, near the junction of Q and R, more or less N (but initially NW)
   2. the E-bound Q goes from there more or less E (but soon NE for a nearly half of that leg's length, and
   3. the R goes more or less S (but for about half its length, roughly SSW and for the other half, roughly SSE).
   4. And for me, the resemblance to a right-side-up lower-case "h" is stronger -- even tho the hump of the h is too short and deformed inward and up on the right, and the lower vertical has started to curve into more of an open-paren shape.

   But there's no hint that more than the SGSP portion is intended, and there is no reference to the R trail in the graph mentioning it - nor until the last of the 8th, and shortest, 'graph.

--Jerzy•t 10:37, 13 May 2008 (UTC)