Ten Mile River Lean-to

[liptackj]

Tom, You are correct. There was a group site on the north side of the bridge but was removed from service several years ago by the CT-AMC AT Committee. Groups were generally using the field on the south side of the bridge and the one on the north side was not being used at all, hence the decision to shut it down. If true, I am very disappointed to hear that the site is still listed in the new guide. There seems to be a growing number of errors that were identified by the AT Committee but failed to make it to the book.
Jim Liptack
CT-AMC Overseer of Trails

[Just Tom]

Tom, You are correct. There was a group site on the north side of the bridge but was removed from service several years ago by the CT-AMC AT Committee. Groups were generally using the field on the south side of the bridge and the one on the north side was not being used at all, hence the decision to shut it down. If true, I am very disappointed to hear that the site is still listed in the new guide. There seems to be a growing number of errors that were identified by the AT Committee but failed to make it to the book.
Jim Liptack
CT-AMC Overseer of Trails

I have both recent guide books (the official one and awols). I'll double-check when I get home, but I saw it in at least one of them. I'll post back if no one does before me.

I'm not a huge fan of that field personally because I'm a bit of of a tick-a-phobe and the grass gets really high there. It is too bad that the area across the bridge to the north and the immediate left cannot be used.

[Just Tom]

It was the AT Guide that listed a group area north of the bridge. The Thru Hikers Companion doesn't seem to track that information either way for any of the sites. The CT trail brochure just lists the area as having a Group Area but without a specific location or reference to the old area. So I guess it is just one of those things that will have to slowly fade out of everyone's memory eventually.

[linus72]

coach, are you referring to the bulls bridge place on rt 7 across from the bridge? the shelter and campsite are at least a mile south from the road where the bridge is so you're looking at 1.3-ish miles to that shop/restaurant. in the other direction you have to go over ten mile hill to rt 55 which is a few miles and i dont recall seeing anything on rt 55 that's that close to the trail. of course i could be wrong but i just hiked it last year.

[Just Tom]

coach, are you referring to the bulls bridge place on rt 7 across from the bridge? the shelter and campsite are at least a mile south from the road where the bridge is so you're looking at 1.3-ish miles to that shop/restaurant. in the other direction you have to go over ten mile hill to rt 55 which is a few miles and i dont recall seeing anything on rt 55 that's that close to the trail. of course i could be wrong but i just hiked it last year.

I think I saw a side trail / forest road to the right a little ways North of the bridge. I never followed it, but i assumed from Coach's comment that it must be a shortcut to the road and a market? I don't really know though, like I said I never followed it to see where it went.

[Havana]

That forest road basically leads to the same road you cross further up the AT. If you take a right at the road you cross the covered bridge and there's a market/gas station and restaurant at the light. The short cut isn't much of a short cut. The only benefit of the short cut is you avoid the elevation climbs. It's a fairly level walk. And as linus says, it's a lot more than 500 yards.

[pnyberg]

Stopped in to the shelter on May 4. Found everything in good order, including the pump. A very pleasant area.

There's still a sign for camping at the south end of the Ned Anderson Bridge, and there's a privy there. If there's a pump there, I didn't see it.

I shot a short video of the shelter area:



--Peter