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Connecticut State Route 169 Travel Guide

Length: 32.0 miles / 51.5 kmTime to Allow: One hour without stopping or one full day to visit places along the byway.

Traverse one of the last unspoiled areas in the northeastern U.S. This byway winds through history, passing colonial homesteads, churches, stone walls, meeting houses and private schools, as it connects classic New England towns. Views include maple and pine stands and glacially deposited rocks and boulders that lie strewn throughout fields.

Merritt Parkway Travel Guide

Length: 37.0 miles / 59.5 kmTime to Allow: One hour to drive the byway.

Set in natural surroundings, Merritt Parkway's significant design brilliantly integrates the craft of the engineer and the artist. The bridges along the Parkway are excellent examples of Art Deco, or Art Moderne, styles of the 1920s and 1930s. Magnificent foliage abounds in both spring and fall.

Quinebaug & Shetucket Rivers Valley National Heritage Corridor - Putnam, CT
	This is a special kind of park. It embraces numerous towns, villages and a total population of about 300,000. Quinebaug & Shetucket is not a traditional park. Instead, citizens, businesses, nonprofit cultural and environmental organizations, local and state governments, and the National Park Service work together to preserve and celebrate the region's cultural, historical and natural heritage.

Weir Farm National Historic Site - Ridgefield & Wilton, CT
	In June of 1882, painter J. Alden Weir boarded a train from New York bound for his modest farm among the hills of Branchville, CT. Once here, Weir and his family transformed their summer retreat into a creative refuge for friends and fellow artists. After Weir, artists Mahonri Young and Sperry Andrews lived and worked here, continuing the legacy of artistic expression that still inspires today.

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