Day: February 4, 2024

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Peering Into the Gulf

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This time of year I had no interest in getting to close to the ledge. It was slippery, and easy to trip up on ice atop the snow that I was breaking through with the snowshoes. I always enjoy visiting The Gulf, and one of these days I will go down in it take some pictures, in the moist, damp gulf that never has much sunlight, leading to many unique and endangered species.

Sunday February 6, 2011 — Partridge Run Game Management Area

End of the US 4 Expressway

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At one point, US 4 in Vermont was proposed to be an expressway across the state. Nowadays it dead ends at US 7 South of Rutland, across from what I'd now the Diamond Run Maul. This would have become part of the Modified Central Route of the proposed Interstate 92.

"MODIFIED" CENTRAL ROUTE: 281.6 miles from the area of Glens Falls, New York to Portland, Maine. This corridor would have required 97.1 miles of new construction and 70.2 miles of upgrading existing facilities (a 1968-1971 Interstate-quality upgrade of US 4 near Rutland, Vermont is included in this figure). Approximately 114.2 miles would have utilized already existing Interstate highways (I-89 in Vermont and New Hampshire, and I-393 in New Hampshire). The route, which was estimated to cost $346 million by the time it was completed in 1979, would have gone through Rutland and White River Junction, Vermont; Lebanon and Concord, New Hampshire; and Sanford and Portland, Maine. (An extension of the central route east to Calais, Maine was not considered for this study.)

http://www.bostonroads.com/roads/I-92

Connecticut Land Cover

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Connecticut is less agricultural then you might think, but it's also less developed too. Most of the farming activity occurs in the northwest corner of state, along with a very fertile crop land in the Connecticut Valley north of Hartford. Do zoom in further to explore in more detail.

Curtain Gap Interchange

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The Interstate 99 and 80 interchange is at grade but after years of delay they're talking about making it a modern interchange.