Got up to Blue trails yesterday to do some shooting with my Son and Daughter in law.
It had been a couple of years since last time I was able to get up there.
I was shocked the place was packed!
I noticed the whole place had been remodeled.
Didn't recognize anybody working there, I was wondering if it was under new ownership?

Good to hear!  I haven't been there in 8-9years.

Don't think its under "new" management. However the owner did pass away back in 2017.

They closed the 200 yard range over 10 years ago and put in the barriers on the rifle range at that same time to force shooting from the bench after the "magic bullet strike" on a house on the other side of the hill from the range incident many years ago.

For those who don't remember (or were not old enough at the time) there were/are a number of home owners around Blue Trail who've been trying to get the range shut down for over a decade. They enlisted the local media's help to run a number of hit pieces on the range. This included the infamous video with a WTNH reporter with a handful of empty casings claiming they're "bullets", which she stated she found in the forest, which is on the other side of the pond from the range. The media breathlessly ran stories about houses having bullet strikes. With one of the houses being on the other side of the hill opposite the forest, lake and range (aka the "magic bullet strike" under the roof overhang). It is well known people shoot in that forest opposite the range/pond. There was even a rumor that one of the home owners who filed suit against the range  for bullet strikes shot their own guns in the forest around their home. Blue Trail has been investigated several times by state police who concluded they could not determine that the homes were struck by bullets from the range. But they were forced to close and implement a whole host of improvements and changes. When they failed to get the range shut down over bullet strikes, they moved to claiming lead contamination in the pond's water (among other things). Never mind that the area used to be a test range during WWII and several enviro studies found no appreciable rise in lead contamination in that area or the pond.

That was the original Karening.

Yep. Range has been there for ever. People move in knowing there is a range in the area, then proceed to bitch to the media, complain to the town, and file lawsuits, etc.

There was one persistent rumor; the "one guy" who bought that one house on the other side of the hill that got the magic bullet strike was trying to get the range shut down so the land could be bought up and developed either by him, his family, or a friend. Whole thing was a shit show from end to end and just reeked of someone wanting to bankrupt the range's owners through lawfare to get their hands on that land.

I haven't been to the rifle range since they put up the barriers and closed the 200 range. I have been to the shotgun field as recently as a year ago.

I thought I saw somewhere that they allow prone at the rifle range. I could be wrong. Can anybody confirm?

Irreverent but I always wondered if this Lyman family has any relation to Lyman Products and the Lyman Orchards folks.

Yes. Its mentioned on their website.

https://www.bluetrailrange.com/firearms-store/

https://www.bluetrailrange.com/shooting-range/outdoor-shooting-range/

Lyman gunsight (now lyman products) , blue trail range, Lyman orchards and golf course were all the same family a couple of generations back.

Lyman products was sold off to some corporate group.
Orchard and golf operation still run by one branch of the Lyman family and the range was another branch

I've been duck hunting Quinnipiac Meadows in North Haven for 30 years.  People starting building condos and houses near the marsh lands and started complaining about the shooting during the hunting season until the state closed down the area.  Guys have been hunting in there probably more than 50 years.  Never any houses near by but the state sided with them.  You build near wetlands and then complain about the hunting.  Bunch of turds.