I agree that a CLP would have helped the images,except the tracks. You could also try a GND filter. I travel RT. 8 every day. What was your vantage point?
In the winter as you travel north,toward Naugatuck, look up to the left before the mountain ends and there is a spot that seems to always have a frozen waterfall coming off of the top. There is a safe place to shoot it from, if on the Northbound side.