Spruce Glen Falls

The sound of Spruce Glen Falls echoes up the walls of a deep woodland ravine in the Quinnipiac Valley, dropping Spruce Brook some fifteen feet over a sharp ledge skirted with wispy cascades.

In the early days, these falls on Spruce Glen Brook were part of a beloved “wilderness” area in northern Wallingford, a region which had otherwise been heavily deforested for agriculture. But the face of the landscape has changed in modern times and Spruce Glen is now crowded on every front by a highway, industrial park, suburban neighborhood and some remaining farmland. Mercifully, the falls have found sanctuary in the relative seclusion of a sixty-acre nature preserve that sits squarely in the middle of this diverse patchwork of civilization.