Day Adventures

4 adventures tagged Day Adventures.

Groton & Mystic, CT

Day Adventure: Groton & Mystic

A real nuclear submarine (free), lunch by a drawbridge that performs on the hour, the best ice cream timing trick in Connecticut, and a bookstore with goats on the way home. The eastern cluster, assembled.

🚗 About 1 hr 10 min to Groton🥾 Easy; the sub has ladders and tight hatches★★★★★

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Branford, CT

Day Adventure: Branford

A boat tour through an archipelago of tiny pink-granite islands with pirate-treasure legends, a village that time forgot, seafood-shack lunch, and ice cream on the green. Episode three goes to the shoreline.

🚗 About 35 min🥾 Easy everywhere★★★★★

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Shelton, CT

Day Adventure: Shelton

A waterfall on the Housatonic, a proper deli sandwich, farm ice cream, and a pick-your-own farm that changes with the seasons. One town, one tank of gas barely touched.

🚗 You're already here🥾 Easy all day★★★★★

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Derby & Ansonia, CT

Day Adventure: Derby & Ansonia

Valley episode two: a free nature center with animal ambassadors, a riverwalk along two rivers, apizza that outranks its zip code, and a state park most of the state forgot. Ten minutes from Shelton, all of it.

🚗 About 10 min to the first stop🥾 Easy everywhere★★★★☆