Merritt Family Forest

Merritt Family Forest is a nature reserve in Connecticut, New England. Merritt Family Forest is situated nearby to the village Poquonock Bridge, as well as near the hamlet West Mystic.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Haley Farm State Park and Mystic Museum of Art.

Haley Farm State Park

Nature reserve

Photo: Morrowlong, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Haley Farm State Park is a public recreation area that preserves Colonial-era farmland as open space in the town of Groton, Connecticut. The site of the state park once formed part of the lands granted to Governor John Winthrop and later became a dairy farm.

Mystic Museum of Art

Museum

Mystic Museum of Art is a museum of American art at 9 Water Street in Mystic, Connecticut. The Mystic Art Association, an organization of artists who painted in the seacoast town, was founded by Charles Harold Davis in 1913.

Mystic Seaport Marine Museum

Theme park

Photo: Joethon, Public domain.

Mystic Seaport Museum is a maritime museum in Mystic, Connecticut, and the largest in the United States. Its 19-acre site holds a collection of ships and boats and a re-creation of a 19th-century seaport village consisting of more than 60 historic buildings, including many rare commercial structures that were moved to the site and meticulously restored.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Groton and Mystic.

Groton

Photo: Victor-ny, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Groton is a town in New London County, Connecticut, located on the Thames River. It is the home of General Dynamics Electric Boat, which is the major contractor for submarine work for the United States Navy.

Mystic

Photo: peasap, CC BY 2.0.

Mystic is a village that is partly in Groton and partly in Stonington in Connecticut. It is a major tourist destination.

Noank

Suburb

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.5.

Noank is a village in the town of Groton, Connecticut. This dense community of historic homes and local businesses sits on a small, steep peninsula at the mouth of the Mystic River and has a long tradition of fishing, lobstering, and boatbuilding.

Merritt Family Forest

Type: Nature reserve
Category: recreation area
Location: Connecticut, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude

41.3483° or 41° 20′ 54″ north

Longitude

-72.0045° or 72° 0′ 16″ west

Operator

Groton Open Space Organization

Open location code

87H98XXW+85

OpenStreetMap ID

way 766768815

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=nature_reserve

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Satellite Map

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Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Poquonock Bridge and West Mystic.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Fort Hill and North Burrows Cemetery.

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