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Gardner Lake State Park is a small 9.75-acre (3.95 ha) Connecticut state park located on the south portion of the lake and provides access for fishing, swimming, and boating on the lake. [4] Added to the state park list in 2001, it expected to be open around 2002 and serves as one of the few public inland swimming areas in the New London County ...
Sherwood Island State Park is a public recreation area on the shore of Long Island Sound in the Greens Farms section of Westport, Connecticut. [3] The state park offers swimming, fishing, and other activities on 238 acres (96 ha) of beach, wetlands, and woodlands. Sherwood Island is numbered as Connecticut's first state park because state ...
Candlewood Lake is a manmade lake located in Fairfield and Litchfield counties of Western Connecticut, in the northeastern United States. At 8.4 square miles (22 km 2), it is the largest lake in Connecticut and the largest lake in the New York Metropolitan Area. [ 2 ] The lake is bordered by the city of Danbury, and the towns of Brookfield, New ...
A 1977 Upstate story about local “swimming holes” mentioned Mendon Ponds. “The swimming area…reaches a depth of 15 feet, has a slow-pitched sandy bottom, and a sandy beach for idle sunning ...
Silver Sands State Park is a public recreation area located on Long Island Sound in the city of Milford, Connecticut. [ 3 ] The state park consists of 297 acres (120 ha) of beach, dunes, restored salt marsh, open areas and woods as well as the 14-acre (5.7 ha) bird sanctuary of Charles Island. [ 4 ] The park offers swimming, picnicking, trails ...
Long Island Sound seen from Meigs Point at Hammonassett Beach. Hammonasset Beach State Park is a public recreation area occupying two miles of beach front on Long Island Sound in the town of Madison, Connecticut. It is the state's largest shoreline park and one of the state's most popular attractions, drawing an estimated one million visitors ...
Penfield Reef Lighthouse is a lighthouse in Connecticut, United States, on Penfield Reef at the south side of Black Rock Harbor entrance on the Long Island Sound, off the coast of Fairfield, Connecticut. [2][3][4][5][6] Constructed in 1874, it was one of the last offshore masonry lights. Most offshore lights built after this were cast iron ...
950165 (island) Fishers Island (Pequot: Munnawtawkit) is an island that is part of Southold, New York, United States at the eastern end of Long Island Sound, 2 miles (3 km) off the southeastern coast of Connecticut across Fishers Island Sound. About 9 miles (14 km) long and 1 mile (1.6 km) wide, it is about 11 miles (18 km) from the tip of Long ...