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Instagrammable Connecticut: Family and Maternity Photo Shoots
Planning a family or maternity photo shoot? Connecticut features many scenic destinations that make perfect backdrops for capturing special moments and milestones with your family. Whether framing and hanging or sharing them to your feed, these destinations will provide the opportunity to capture your precious memories. With our Instagrammable Connecticut series, we’re inviting Instagrammers to share their pictures! Check back often for new topics. Or if you have some photos to share, tag them using #CTvisit!
Featuring: Elizabeth Park Rose Gardens | Hammonasset Beach State Park | Harkness Memorial State Park | Lavender Pond Farm | Silver Sands State Park | Topsmead State Forest | Town of New Canaan
Favorite Park Closed? Here Are Others to Try
If you are looking to spend a day outside, only to find your favorite state park is closed, here are some other outdoor locations and local businesses to help you get outside and discover new outdoor destinations in Connecticut.
Featuring: Adventure Park at Storrs | Adventure Park at the Discovery Museum | Audubon Guilford Salt Meadow Sanctuary | Bigelow Hollow State Park | Black Hall Outfitters - Old Lyme | Black Hall Outfitters - Westbrook | Black Rock State Park | Bluff Point Coastal Reserve | Burr Pond State Park | Chatfield Hollow State Park | City of Milford | City of Norwalk | Collinsville Canoe & Kayak | Connecticut Audubon Society Center at Fairfield | Connecticut Audubon Society Coastal Center | Devil's Hopyard State Park | Empower Adventure Park at Nomads | Gardner Lake State Park | Hammonasset Beach State Park | Harkness Memorial State Park | Hidden Valley Preserve | Hopeville Pond State Park | Lake Waramaug State Park | Lovers Leap State Park | Lucius Pond Ordway/Devil's Den Preserve | Mansfield Hollow State Park | McLean Game Refuge | Millers Pond State Park | Mount Tom State Park | Paddle Mystic-Mystic River Adventure Company | Paugussett State Forest | Penwood State Park | Quinnipiac River Linear Trail | Rocky Neck State Park | Satan's Kingdom State Recreation Area | Scantic River State Park | Scoot & Paddle | Sea Kayak Connecticut | Sherwood Island State Park | Silver Sands State Park | Sleeping Giant State Park | Southford Falls State Park | Stewart B. McKinney National Wildlife Refuge | Talcott Mountain State Park | Topsmead State Forest | Town of Kent | Wadsworth Falls State Park | Webb Mountain Discovery Zone
Winter Sports in the Litchfield Hills
Litchfield Hills is an ideal destination for outdoor winter sports activities such as downhill cross-country skiing, tubing, ice skating and sledding, as well as indoor fun like laser tag, target paintball mini golf and more. So why spend a winter weekend kicking around the house when you can be exploring so much of what Litchfield Hills has to offer instead?
Featuring: Mohawk Mountain Ski Area | Richter Park Golf Course | Ski Sundown | Topsmead State Forest | Town of Bethel | Town of Ridgefield | Town of Southbury | White Memorial Foundation
Recent Press
15 Connecticut State Parks and Forests That Are Fun to Visit with Kids
Mommy Poppins
Online article highlighting state parks that are fun for kids.
Published Date: 2019-04-22
Featuring: Bigelow Hollow State Park | Burr Pond State Park | Collis P. Huntington State Park | Dinosaur State Park | Fort Trumbull State Park | Gillette Castle State Park | Harkness Memorial State Park | Mansfield Hollow State Park | Mashamoquet Brook State Park | Sherwood Island State Park | Sleeping Giant State Park | Talcott Mountain State Park | Topsmead State Forest | Wadsworth Falls State Park
THE 15 BEST SMALL TOWNS TO VISIT IN 2021
Smithsonian Magazine Online
Online article highlighting the best small towns to visit.
Published Date: 2021-06-07
Featuring: Arethusa Farm | Bantam Lake | Haight-Brown Vineyard | Lee's Riding Stable | Litchfield Distillery | Litchfield History Museum | Mount Tom State Park | Ripley Waterfowl Conservancy | The Dutch Epicure Shop | The Litchfield Inn | The Village Restaurant | Topsmead State Forest | Town of Litchfield | West Street Grill | White Memorial Conservation Center Museum
Most Beautiful Towns in Connecticut
East End Taste
Online article highlighting the most beautiful town in Connecticut.
Published Date: 2022-02-08
Featuring: At the Corner | Avon Old Farms Hotel | Branford Point Beach | Canton Historical Museum | City of New London | Delamar Greenwich Harbor | Greenwich Historical Society | Greenwich Point Park | Hammonasset Beach State Park | Kent Falls State Park | LaSalle Market | Lenny & Joe's Fish Tale Restaurant (Madison) | Lenny's Indian Head | Litchfield Saltwater Grille | Madison Beach Hotel | Mohawk State Forest | Mount Tom State Park | Mystic Aquarium | Mystic Drawbridge Ice Cream | Mystic Seaport Museum | Putnam Cottage (c.1692) | R.J. Julia Booksellers | Ripley Waterfowl Conservancy | Stony Creek Brewery | The Litchfield Inn | The Simsbury Inn | The White Hart | Topsmead State Forest | Town of Branford | Town of Cornwall | Town of Greenwich | Town of Kent | Town of Litchfield | Town of Madison | Town of Mystic | Visit Collinsville | West Street Grill | White Flower Farm | Winvian Farm