connecticut parks for kids

1. Weir Farm National Historic Site Become a Junior Ranger! Hike to Weir Pond, explore the secret garden or pretend to be a local artist and create your own Buddy Bison’s masterpiece!. Fact Bites! 2. Housatonic Meadows • The first telephone book was pub- State Park lished by The New Haven District Go fly fishing in the Housatonic River, Telephone company in February canoe downriver and brave the moderately 5. Sleeping Giant challenging rapids! Hike the Pine Knob Loop 1878. It contained only fifty names. Cross country ski in the wintertime. Climb the Trail and reach Pine Knob Summit, even stay the www.parktrust.org ­ Tower Path up the Giant’s arm toward the tower night! built on his left hip. Be sure to have a picnic • The Scoville Memorial Library is the here! United States’ oldest public library. 3. State 6. • New Haven had the first lolli- Park Hammonasset Beach pop-making machine. The candy is Hike the Tower Trail for great views, visit the State Park Tower for a picnic spot or try your luck named for a popular racehorse. Go for a bike ride, swim in the ocean, have a at bird watching. picnic! Go fishing or hike around to see the local wildlife. Check out the Meigs Point Nature • is home to the first Center before you go! hamburger, Polaroid camera, heli- 4. Dinosaur State Park copter, and color television. See close to 600 dinosaur tracks left from 200 million years ago! Learn about the geological 7. Gilette Castle State Park history of the world. Hike a nature trail through Explore historic Gillette Castle and learn about • In colonial New Haven, cut pump- swamps, woodlands and meadows. its geology! Hike outside, camp by the river, or kins were used as guides for hair- have a nice picnic. cuts. These New Englanders were nicknamed “pumpkin-heads.”

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