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APPENDIX
IV
RECREATION AND OPEN SPACE
SCHOOLS
| School |
Facilities |
Acreage |
| Mary T. Murphy |
play area, baseball field, mini basketball court |
3.5 |
| Pine Orchard |
playground, basketball court |
10 |
| Mary Tisko |
playground, basketball court, nature trail |
7 |
| Indian Neck |
play area, basketball court |
8 |
| Short Beach |
playground, baseball field, basketball court |
3 |
| Branford Hills |
playground, baseball field, basketball court |
4 |
| Walsh Intermediate |
playground, baseball fields (2), indoor basketball
court, soccer field, lighted tennis court (3), running
track, indoor pool |
17 |
| John B. Sliney |
indoor basketball court |
---- |
| Senior High |
football field, baseball field (2), tennis courts
(2), basketball court |
28 |
TOWN
PARKS*
| Park |
Facilities |
Acreage |
| Firemen's Field |
open field |
3.67 |
| Stony Creek Park |
playground, baseball field, basketball court |
0.76 |
| Stony Creek Buddy League |
baseball field |
4.5 |
| Stony Creek Beach |
beach, picnic area |
0.93 |
| Stony Creek Dock |
boat facilities |
---- |
| Stony Creek Community Center |
meeting room |
---- |
| Parker Memorial Park |
play area, picnic area, public beach, fishing
pier |
11.7 |
| Hammer Field |
tot lot, play area, baseball field, softball fields
(3), lighted basketball court, picnic area, soccer
fields |
10.0 |
| Community House |
indoor basketball court, game room, meeting rooms |
| Town Green |
various uses |
7.0 |
| Lanphier's Cove |
public beach |
1.0 |
| Pages Cove (Short Beach) |
public beach |
0.1 |
| Canoe Brook Senior Center |
meeting rooms |
---- |
| Sliney Field |
baseball fields (4), soccer field |
2.26 |
| Young's Pond |
soft ball field, dog run |
48.57 |
| Veteran's Memorial Park |
baseball field, softball fields (2), tennis courts
(4), basketball court, play area, lavatory building |
61.3 |
| Ridge Acres (Flax Mill) |
soccer field |
8.83 |
*Compiled
by Branford Planning and Zoning Department
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TOWN
OPEN SPACE* |
| Location |
Facilities/Land-use |
Acreage |
| Supply Ponds |
picnic area, hiking, nature trails, summer day camp,
canoeing, skating, fishing |
339.53 |
| Stony Creek/Pleasant Pt. |
trolley trail, tidal wetlands |
37.1 |
| Stony Creek Quarry |
natural area, passive recreation |
451.25 |
| Lion's Park (Burban Drive) |
-- |
1.0 |
| Pisgah Brook |
-- |
259.1 |
| Valley Brook Road South |
-- |
0.2 |
| Red Hill Estates |
-- |
2.24 |
| O'Neill La. |
-- |
1.7 |
| 12 Katie-Joe La. |
access to BLT Short Beach Preserve |
0.1 |
| Red Hill Road |
-- |
6.5 |
| Weeping Hemlock at Kelly Crest |
-- |
0.35 |
| Short Beach Road Detention Pond |
-- |
2.4 |
| Ward's Mill Pond |
-- |
10.0 |
| Red Rock Road |
-- |
19.4 |
| 11 Pawson Landing Drive |
-- |
0.33 |
| Pine Orchard Road |
-- |
1.07 |
| Oak Hollow Road |
-- |
1.62 |
| 25 Blackstone Avenue |
-- |
0.74 |
| Club Parkway |
-- |
0.5 |
| 18 Crestwood Road |
-- |
0.79 |
| 271-305 Northford Road |
-- |
1.93 |
| High Plains Road |
-- |
0.93 |
| Goodsell Point Road |
-- |
0.4 |
| 30 Flat Rock Road |
-- |
1.32 |
| 83 Laurel Hill Road |
-- |
1.8 |
| Tabor Drive |
-- |
17.65 |
| Fair Lawn Avenue |
-- |
4.85 |
| Eastwood Drive |
-- |
1.7 |
| Pepperwood La. |
-- |
2.85 |
| 74 Lantern View Drive |
-- |
2.9 |
| 34 Piscitello Drive |
-- |
0.67 |
| Queach Road |
-- |
4.2 |
| Birch Road |
-- |
5.92 |
| Aceto Street |
-- |
0.42 |
| 30 Richhill Road |
-- |
0.94 |
*unless otherwise noted, land use is passive
recreation, Compiled by Branford Planning and Zoning Department
QUASI-PUBLIC FACILITIES
| Park |
Facilities |
Acreage |
| Foote Memorial Park |
tennis courts (8 – hard; 4 – clay), baseball
fields (3), lighted (1) and unlit (1) basketball courts,
lighted paddle tennis courts (4), volleyball court, horseshoe
pits (4), play area, picnic area, scenic overlook, amphitheater,
shelter, lavatory building |
38.6 |
| Foote Riverside Park |
scenic overlook, passive recreation |
2.0 |
| Branford Little League |
baseball field |
5.0 |
| Ecclesiastical Society |
passive recreation |
47.66 |
| Killam's Point |
passive recreation |
0.3 |
| Branford Electric Railroad Assoc. |
train rides |
51.3 |
STATE OF CONNECTICUT
| Parcel |
Acreage |
| North Branford Road |
47.3 |
| Democrat Island |
0.95 |
| 30 Goodsell Point Road (boat launch) |
3.4 |
| East Main Street (Fisheries & Game) |
26.18 |
| Rose Hill Road tidal wetlands |
18.94 |
| Pawson Road tidal wetlands |
20+ |
| Pleasant Point tidal wetlands |
33.0 |
| Beacon Hill |
74.4 |
US GOVERNMENT
| Parcel |
Acreage |
| Stewart B. McKinney National Wildlife Refuge (Outer
Island) |
2.2 |
YALE UNIVERSITY
| Parcel |
Acreage |
| Linsley Pond |
7.1 |
| Leetes Island Road |
44.05 |
| Horse Island |
48.5 |
| Lidyhites Pond |
48.5 |
SOUTH CENTRAL REGIONAL WATER
AUTHORITY
| Parcel |
Acreage |
| SUPPLY POND WATERSHED |
-- |
| Laurel Hill Road |
4.0 |
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| SALTONSTALL WATERSHED |
-- |
| between reservoir & Hosley Avenue |
593.5 |
| under reservoir & Hosley Avenue |
204.0 |
| east of Hosley Avenue |
9.40 |
| bounded by Hosley Avenue & Cherry Hill Road |
227.4 |
| south of I-95, bounded west by Furnace Avenue |
37.50 |
| south of I-95, bounded west by Hosley Avenue |
11.30 |
| between I-95, Branford Connector & R.R. |
50.90 |
| isolated parcel |
1.30 |
| Furnace Pond |
19.10 |
| south of Route 1 |
2.0 |
| Cherry Hill Road (pumping station) |
0.36 |
| TOTAL HOLDINGS (Dec 31, 2001) |
1160.76 |
BRANFORD LAND TRUST
| parcel |
Notes |
Acreage |
| SHORT BEACH/BRANFORD HILL/ BRANHAVEN |
-- |
-- |
| Lower Farm River watershed |
-- |
-- |
| Minore |
-- |
19.5 |
| Branford/Spicebush Terrrace |
-- |
1.2 |
| Short Beach Preserve |
-- |
-- |
| Foote/Prann/Ertelt |
-- |
35.0 |
| Prout |
-- |
4.3 |
| Jennifer Heights |
-- |
6.0 |
| Pantani |
-- |
2.1 |
| Isolated parcels |
-- |
-- |
| Peterson/Kidd's Cave |
-- |
0.48 |
| Peterson/Stone Street |
-- |
0.31 |
| LAKE SALTONSTALL WATERSHED |
-- |
-- |
| Seeberg |
-- |
3.3 |
| MILL CREEK WATERSHED |
-- |
-- |
| Upper Mill Creek |
-- |
-- |
| Hammer |
-- |
23.8 |
| Hammer Lea |
-- |
2.68 |
| Lower Mill Creek |
Disturbed tidal marsh |
-- |
| Dingus |
-- |
2.7 |
| Lindberg |
-- |
7.8 |
| Simpson |
-- |
0.34 |
| Morawski |
-- |
1.24 |
| PISGAH BROOK/SUPPLY PONDS NATURAL AREA |
-- |
-- |
| Town of Branford – Laurel Hill Road |
-- |
2.2 |
| Ifkovic |
-- |
10.2 |
| MAIN STEM OF BRANFORD RIVER |
Nearly all salt marsh |
-- |
| Towner |
-- |
2.75 |
| Sturgess II |
-- |
6.7 |
| Beach |
-- |
1.8 |
| Congregational Church/Town Meadow |
-- |
-- |
| Sturgess III, IV |
-- |
< 5.1 |
| Prann-Ertelt |
-- |
1.5 |
| Field |
-- |
3.0 +/- |
| Foote I |
-- |
5.07 |
| Foote II |
Total for Foote I |
-- |
| -- |
& Foote II |
-- |
| Sliney I |
5.5 |
-- |
| Foote IV (Jenny Lind) |
2.2 |
-- |
| UNNAMED BRANFORD RIVER TRIBUTARIES (from North to South) |
-- |
-- |
| Brook draining by Intermediate School and I-95 Exit
55 |
-- |
-- |
| Buza |
-- |
9.7 |
| Soffer |
-- |
0.95 |
| Brook draining from Tisco School |
-- |
-- |
| Reynolds (Tisco) |
-- |
24.0 |
| Reynolds |
-- |
9.8 |
| Smith |
-- |
4.0 |
| Russo |
-- |
1.8 |
| SYBIL CREEK |
-- |
-- |
| East of Route 146 |
-- |
-- |
| Gustafson |
includes some upland |
3.3 |
| Foote/Waverly (three parcels) |
includes some upland |
33.4 |
| Stratton |
-- |
1.5 |
| Foote/Sybil |
-- |
23.5 |
| Newton-Crelin |
half upland |
8.1 |
| West of Route 146 |
-- |
-- |
| Tagliatela |
(two parcels; marsh) |
13.6 |
| Tagliatela |
(5-upland; 15-marsh) |
20 +/- |
| Meffert (part) |
-- |
15 |
| PAWSON PARK MARSHES |
-- |
-- |
| Ecclesiastical Society |
-- |
16.7 |
| Meffert (part) |
-- |
-- |
| OTHER INDIAN NECK MARSHES |
-- |
-- |
| Foote/Summer Island |
-- |
< 1.0 |
| Hadley |
-- |
1.0 |
| Congregational Church/Summer Island |
-- |
0.7 |
| MILL PLAIN/NORTHFORD ROAD TO NORTH BRANFORD ROAD |
-- |
-- |
| Bontatibus |
-- |
6.5 |
| Benchmark |
-- |
4.3 |
| Munger Brook (Sachs) |
-- |
2.92 |
| SHELDON CREEK (WORLDS END CR.) ASSEMBLAGE (Primarily
wetlands and pond) |
-- |
-- |
| Young (Griffing Pond) |
-- |
3.0 +/- |
| Nickou |
-- |
2.5 |
| Hayden |
-- |
3.78 |
| Young (Young's Pond North) |
-- |
12.8 |
| GOSS/VEDDER ASSEMBLAGE (TROLLEY PATH/LONG MARSH CREEK) |
-- |
-- |
| Vedder |
(3 parcels) |
27.2 |
| Berdon |
-- |
0.25 |
| Goss |
(2 parcels) |
5.05 |
| TRAP ROCK RAILROAD/PEPPERWOOD AREA |
-- |
-- |
| North end (Branford River watershed) |
-- |
-- |
| Town of Branford – Gould Lane |
-- |
2.7 |
| Anderson-Wilcox North |
-- |
0.9 |
| Beechwood |
-- |
6.3 |
| South end (Pine Creek watershed) |
-- |
-- |
| Anderson-Wilcox West |
-- |
7.86 |
| Anderson-Wilcox East |
-- |
1.09 |
| Collins |
-- |
7.53 |
| LOWER PINE CREEK WATERSHED |
(Stony Creek Road to Leetes Island Road) |
-- |
| DuPont |
-- |
2.5 |
| Lowe (easement) |
-- |
0.3 |
| Anderson |
-- |
3.92 |
| Wies |
-- |
11 |
| VAN WIE ASSEMBLAGE |
-- |
-- |
| Rose Van Wie I |
-- |
27.3 |
| Rose Van Wie II |
-- |
19.6 |
| W. & A. Van Wie I |
-- |
8.8 |
| W. & A. Van Wie II |
-- |
15.4 |
| W. & A. Van Wie III |
-- |
9.9 |
| W. & A. Van Wie IV |
-- |
17.3 |
| Town of Branford II (three parcels) |
-- |
5.6 |
| Sullivan/Pantani |
-- |
1.48 |
| Brooks R. Kelley Memorial Woods |
-- |
30.3 |
| Sullivan/Red Hill Road |
-- |
2.99 |
| FLAT ROCK/WHITEWOOD |
-- |
-- |
| Sullivan-Lyons |
-- |
3.8 |
| Dumais |
-- |
7.0 +/- |
| Sullivan/Ash Creek Road |
-- |
1.9 |
| JARVIS CREEK/STONY CREEK |
-- |
-- |
| Between Leetes Island Road and Amtrak line |
-- |
-- |
| Powers |
-- |
0.9 |
| Palmer-Welles (four parcels) |
-- |
4.1 |
| Rose |
-- |
0.7+ |
| South of Amtrak line |
-- |
-- |
| Washburn |
-- |
17.8 |
| Stony Creek Ltd. Partners |
-- |
9.0 |
| HOADLEY CREEK PRESERVE |
-- |
-- |
| Medlyn (w/ Town of Branford) |
-- |
48 |
| Pinchot (w/ Guilford LCT ) |
-- |
47 |
| ISOLATED SMALL PARCELS |
-- |
-- |
| Sturgess I |
-- |
0.28 |
| Welsh |
-- |
1.81 |
| Mattern |
-- |
2.53 |
| Ransome |
-- |
0.67 |
| Hentschel |
-- |
2.0 +/- |
| Land Trust House |
26 School Street |
0.31 |
| MARITIME POSSESSIONS |
-- |
-- |
| Thimble Islands |
(Marine Is., Bernais Reef, Commander Rocks)
|
-- |
| Childers |
-- |
-- |
| Thoms (Northford Rock) |
-- |
-- |
| Indian Neck |
-- |
-- |
| Foote |
-- |
-- |
| Short Beach/Killam's Point |
-- |
-- |
| Murphy (Green Island) |
-- |
1.0 |
| Davis (Umbrella Islands) |
-- |
-- |
| -- |
-- |
-- |
| TOTAL HOLDINGS (March 31, 2003) |
-- |
770 + |
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