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What they all came for was the country, and the town decided to keep it. The farmers had gone west after the Erie Canal opened, and the forest crept back over their stone walls; by the 1930s Redding was woods again. In 1965 residents founded a land trust. When the Great Ledge above Devil's Den came on the market in 1988, the town bought it. Today nearly forty percent of Redding is protected, with about sixty miles of trails, most of them cleared each year by volunteers.
Our Redding logo carries an old oak on a rise between two stands of pine, above “Connecticut — Est. 1636,” the founding year of the Connecticut colony and the date all our Connecticut towns share. It is drawn in worn black-and-white, like an old feed-sack stamp. The date belongs to the state; the oak is Redding's own, for the town that let its pastures go back to woods and then made sure they stayed that way.
Why People Visit Redding
People come to Redding for what is not here: no highway, no strip, no crowd. They come for a Revolutionary War camp you can walk alone on a winter morning, for sixty miles of trails, and for the hills that drew Mark Twain, Charles Ives and Edward Steichen out of New York.
