Bucket List Adventures

4 adventures tagged Bucket List Adventures.

Montville (Oakdale), CT

The Dinosaur Place

Over forty life-size dinosaurs on wooded trails, a splash pad, and a maze. For the dinosaur-phase years, this is the promised land, and it's an hour from home.

🚗 About 1 hr🥾 Easy; a stroller-able 1.5 mi trail network★★★★★

Family Adventures

Norton Park, Plainville, CT

Plainville Hot Air Balloon Festival

Hot air balloons at dawn, a balloon glow at dusk, fireworks over a small-town park, and a giant slide in between. One weekend a year, and it's free to walk in.

🚗 About 40 min🥾 Easy, it's a park★★★★★

Family Adventures

Mystic, CT

Mystic Aquarium

Beluga whales you watch nose-to-glass, penguins with personal drama, and the whole of Mystic waiting outside the gates. The big-ticket day, done right.

🚗 About 1 hr 20 min🥾 Easy, flat, half outdoor★★★★★

Weekend Road Trips

Essex, CT

Essex Steam Train & Riverboat

A real steam locomotive up the Connecticut River valley, then a riverboat past Gillette Castle. For a train-phase kid this is not a day trip, it's a pilgrimage.

🚗 About 50 min🥾 Easy, you're sitting down for most of it★★★★★