Pick Your Scenic Drive

Scenic Drives

Name of Drive

Description

Highlights

Where It Begins and Ends

Length In Miles

Website

Litchfield Hills

scenic drive that exudes 18th century New England ambience

postcard worthy small towns

waterfalls

covered bridges

Farmington to Kent then Canaan

70

860/567-4506

Connecticut St Rt 169

one of northeasts last unspoiled areas

colonial homesteads

meeting houses

stone walls

Lisbon to North Woodstock

32

860/363-7226

Merritt Parkway

one of the only roads listed on the National Register of Historic Places

brilliant parkway design w/art deco bridges

from north of Greenwich on Hwy 15 to Trumball

37

860/256-2800

Covered Bridge Drive

visit 3 historic old bridges

lake waramaug

litchfield hills

South Kent to West Cornwall

20

888/288-4748

Connecticut River Loop

Ferry Landing State ParkĀ 

Florence Griswold Museum

Gillette Castle

Essex south on CT95 to Lyme on CT156W

32

860/767-4340