In the town of Stonington you’ll need to divide your time between two old maritime settlements, both charming and brimming with history. Huddled onto a narrow peninsula, and still home to a small commercial fishing fleet, Stonington Borough will win your heart with its clapboard houses, local shops, old lighthouse and a museum at the …
This agreeable little town is between Bristol and New Britain in Hartford County. While Plainville isn’t a tourist hotspot, there’s a lot going on both in the town and close by. At the end of August Norton Park is the scene of a hot air balloon festival, a riot of colour that you have to …
This little town in Hartford County is on a bend in the Farmington River and takes its name from the River Avon in England. The land was first settled by Europeans as long ago as 1645, and was incorporated as a town in 1830. In the east rises the elongated mass of Talcott Mountain, belonging …
This small town of just under 20,000 is on Fairfield County’s posh Gold Coast. True to its location, Wilton blends plush residential areas with the headquarters of international corporations like Deloitte & Touche, Breitling, Sun Products and ASML. There’s more than 300 years of history to investigate at the Wilton Historical Society & Museum, which …
Only 15 miles east of New Haven, Madison is a historic oceanfront town with centuries-old architecture and miles of public shoreline. At Hammonasset Beach State Park you can lie back by Long Island Sound or spot wildlife along trails in protected woods and marshland. Madison is much more than its shoreline, and has an authentic, …
Set in Victoria‘s Gippsland Region, Traralgon is the fastest-growing urban centre in the Latrobe Valley. The city grew up in the late-19th century at a railway junction, and one of those disused lines has become a rail trail guiding cyclists and walkers over more than 60 kilometres of rural Gippsland. Coalmining is the big industry …
This adorable little central Connecticut town is in rural landscapes that will take your breath away, all somehow within six miles of the state capital. Ever-present on the western horizon is Talcott Mountain, belonging to the 100-mile Metacomet Ridge. This peak is 13 miles long and its highest point is crowned by the Heublein Tower …
This little eastern Connecticut town is in Danbury‘s southern outskirts, rolling out into the countryside of Fairfield County. The quaint and pedestrian-friendly Greenwood Avenue is Bethel’s main artery and has real historical clout, not least as the birthplace of the famed 19th-century showman P.T. Barnum. The Bethel Historical Society has plotted a couple of walking …
Southbury in New Haven County is the only community in the entire United States with this name. The town points this fact out in its motto, “Unica Unaque”, which I learned means “The One and Only”. With a population slightly below 20,000, the town has a dispersed, rural feel and lays claim to some staggering …
Named for the Irish city, the town of Waterford in New London County occupies a tab of land surrounded on three sides by water. Side-by-side on Long Island Sound there’s a rare natural beach, a stately Renaissance Revival mansion in formal gardens and the O’Neill, America’s foremost organization for the development of new works in …