Farmington River Coordinating Committee

Farmington River Coordinating Committee Please also visit www.farmingtonriver.org The Upper Farmington River was designated a part of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System in 1994.

FRCC was created to help manage and protect the 15.1 miles of the Upper Farmington River that was originally designated as a National Partnership Wild and Scenic River in 1994. This designation recognizes the beauty, character, and natural resources of the river and ensures that the river is protected for many years to come. The Farmington River is a popular recreation river for northwestern Conne

cticut. Every year thousands of people canoe, kayak, tube, and fish on this river. They also visit many of the historic sites along the river, and visit the state parks and forests for hiking and camping. Please remember many areas of the river are catch and release for certain fish, please abide by any signs that you see designating these areas. The river also hosts wildlife that range from otters to mussels to birds of prey. In fact, the Farmington is currently the only recorded nesting place for bald eagles in Connecticut. Other animals you can see on the river are osprey, great blue heron, otters, beaver, merganser ducks, and if you’re lucky sometimes an Atlantic salmon.

06/01/2026
06/01/2026
FRCC's River Stewards are out on the upper Wild and Scenic Farmington River!
06/01/2026

FRCC's River Stewards are out on the upper Wild and Scenic Farmington River!

06/01/2026

Greetings anglers - Connecticut is now five years into having "no closed season" for trout as established by Connecticut Public Act 21-12 and we are seeking your input via this short anonymous survey https://forms.cloud.microsoft/g/3VUfzSSYjy

Back story: In 2021, after the passage of Public Act 21-12, the Fisheries Division sought angler input to obtain preferences and desires related to trout fishing for the 2022 season. Based those responses the Fisheries Division opted to implement a default statewide regulation requiring "catch and release" for trout from March 1 until the second Saturday of April. Now, after five years of a Catch and Release season for trout, the Fisheries Division is once again seeking angler input on preferences.

Thank you for taking a few minutes to share your preferences and opinions about the Catch and Release season for trout. Take the survey https://forms.cloud.microsoft/g/3VUfzSSYjy

This survey will be open for 3 weeks.

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04/21/2026

Come get your Nature On at the 11th Annual Barkhamsted Earth Day Nature Festival tomorrow, Sunday, April 26th!

04/21/2026
04/21/2026

Drive-In Pool by Lori Lovley DuBow, Canton, CT Section 16

"The initial design idea for this piece began as I was photographing pictures of the river, and decided to take a picture of the Pleasant Valley Drive-in sign. I realized that I wanted to incorporate the sign into the quilt by having it appear as if it was being reflected in the water. The project then took on a life of its own as I added the 1965 vehicles, speakers, and original wooden guardrails. After laying down the basic outline of the river and the initial wooded area, I added detail with a fusible appliqué technique then finished it with minimal quilting to allow the details of the piece to speak for them." ______________________
"I grew up 100 yards from the Farmington River in Pleasant Valley and spent many happy hours walking along the river, fishing for trout (long before catch and release was in force), and tubing from Riverton to New Hartford. My brothers and I spent early spring days searching for tadpoles in the small side stream ponds and ice skating on those same ponds during the winter. My family’s property was directly adjacent to the Pleasant Valley Drive-in Theatre. The neighborhood kids and we spent many happy summers’ evening there stretched out on blankets eating popcorn and french fries under the starry night sky watching second run movies.

Drive-in Pool is a merging of my childhood memories of the Pleasant Valley Drive-in Theatre circa 1965, and the present day river view where at any time of year you can find a fisherman casting for that big trout. For thousands of years, the fish, fowl and animal life populating the river valley also made this a popular spot for Native Americans, whose numerous artifacts are still being found here. This area between Pleasant Valley and New Hartford was called Mast Swamp even before Barkhamsted was settled in the mid-1700. Tall white pine trees grew here in abundance, and English settlers were required to send large trunks of these pines back to England for use as ship masts by the British navy.

Today this pool is a favorite of fisherman, birders, and hunters." -Lori Lovely DuBow - Canton, CT

Learn more at FarmingtonRiverQuilt.org

03/04/2026

Hemlock wooly adelgids — tiny insects that suck the life out of Eastern hemlocks — can be killed when the temperature drops below zero.

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Pleasant Valley, CT
06063

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