Mt Tom State Park

About Mt Tom State Park

Mount Tom has a beautiful beach and a picnic area, and there are also many hiking trails and a variety of other activities. Take a picnic at Mount Tom and then hike to the stone lookout tower to enjoy unforgettable views.

Follow this description for a yellow path that starts at the picnic area south of the access road, leads to the top of the tower, descends and ends at the starting point. Just take your time, look for the rocks, walk along the path and you will be rewarded with spectacular views from above.

Follow the yellow sign to the fork and then drive south on the access road as you exit the parking lot at the entrance to Mount Tom State Park south of the picnic area.

Dark grey gneiss is dug up in a piece of forest, shortly afterwards a curved surface appears that appears to have been dug out. The rusty spots on the rock are caused by oxidation of iron in the mineral and the rock binds to the lighter and darker minerals, so there are no rustic spots in this area, but rather a series of light and dark mineral dots.

From the curve of the trail, you go straight into gneiss, whose bottom is smoothed by glaciers that moved through Connecticut 25,000 years ago.

At the curve of the road, a ledge overlooks the river and a small stream just a few hundred meters from the path. Search for quartz veins in bright colored rocks and search for the bright colors red, orange, yellow, green, blue and red - green.

The slate layer is almost vertical and is particularly noticeable on the left side of the path. Shale consists of mostly flat mica flakes, which form very thin-layered rocks, and there are many different layers of slate such as slate, slate and slate. The stratification is hard and slow, with some layers containing more quartz and feldspar than others, resulting in high and low layers visible in the rock, causing different weathering.

As you walk through the forest, you will notice many individual round boulders scattered all over the place. There are pieces of glacier left behind by the melting of the ice, but generally the ice has not moved very far. Occasionally, however, you come across a boulder that is so large that it sits on top of itself.

These ice-age boulders are then called "ice-age rocks" or, in the case of Mount Tom State Park, "ice-age boulders."

There are also several very large boulders, covered by large rectangular white feldspar crystals, but the rest of the rock is made of quartz, biotite and plagioclase. Today, two types of rocks can be seen that make up the park; some are up to an inch long, while the others are much smaller, about 1.5 to 2 inches long. It looks like some of these boulders are different from the other types of rock, so I'll look at them.

The white patches in the valley are boulders of milk quartz, and when you see them, you find gneiss sticking to quartz. It is probably a large quartz vein that has penetrated into the gneiss and somehow broken open. Just look at the rock to the left of this valley; it is only a rock to the right of the white spot, about 1 inch long.

Follow the path to the right that leads to the top of Mount Tom and return to where you left the path. The path branches off just below the quartz stone and follows the same path as the left one, only a little further up the hill.

They pass through a very dark rock containing a large amount of hornblende, a type of volcanic rock with a dark brown colour. Hornblend is an amphibolite known for its dark, dark green color, and because this rock is predominantly hornblend, it is called Amphibolite gneis.

Slowly the freezing water in the crack makes it bigger and ice wedges slowly form a wedge. It looks as if a large boulder fell from a distance and smashed the rock into many of the remaining parts. The melting ice has most likely left some pieces behind, so look for the tangle of stones.

When you reach the top of the path, you will notice the rock on which the tower was built. This is the same stone I walked over recently and which is still there, just a few meters from the other side.

At the top of the mountain stands a stone tower, which is another popular destination for hikers.

Climb the tower and enjoy the view: "Tom" is named after a mountain within its borders and is the highest mountain in the national park and the second highest in Germany after the Alps.

The Tower Trail is less than a mile long and rises about 500 feet, and the summit of Mt. Tom is the highest point in the national park and one of the most popular hiking trails in North America.