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Just outside New Hartford, Connecticut, is the most colorful and majestic of the devil's places - Satan's Kingdom. Local clergy gave the area its sinister name centuries ago due to its rugged and isolated terrain. Legends say that Satan once claimed the area as his stomping grounds, until the angel Gabriel decided the area was too idyllic and cleared out the dark lord and his band of demons.
Descriptions of the area from the eighteenth century tell of the sort of people who were attracted to the forbidding wilds there. "Indians, Negroes, and renegade whites" claimed the area as their own home turf, from which they would venture out to rob, steal, and otherwise terrorize the more law-abiding local citizens.
These days this once infamous bastion of lawlessness is a tranquil and scenic state recreation area, famous for hiking and canoeing. Though it no longer seems to deserve its demonic nickname, it does offer canoers some wicked class III rapids to shoot along the west branch of the Farmington River.
