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
Mystic is a village that is partly in Groton and partly in Stonington in Connecticut. It is a major tourist destination.
Noank
Suburb
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
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.3483° or 41° 20′ 54″ northLongitude
-72.0045° or 72° 0′ 16″ westOperator
Groton Open Space OrganizationOpen location code
87H98XXW+85OpenStreetMap ID
way 766768815OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=nature_reserve
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Poquonock Bridge and West Mystic.
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