Talcott Mountain State Park in CT is great for hiking. The Heublein Tower is at the top, and the grounds are beautiful. Especially the ~20 foot grill pit that was built for a party in 1950 that hosted General Dwight Eisenhower. If you close your eyes and take some deep breaths, you can smell the crackling from 75 years ago 🤤
I hope to build a replica of this pit soon.
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Here in the deep South US, many church yards have these old pits in them. Basically a 3 sided 3′ cinder block wall with expanded metal on angle iron for the cooking surface. Fired open with wood down the length, or an offset draft with sheets of galvanized roofing (!) covering the cooking surface and a fire at the open end, and a gap at the far end. Have eaten many a chicken quarter BBQ plate from these pits in my days. You have one extra cooking grate to on top of one grate to flip it, then go down the line, flipping each grate with one guy on each side.