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Silver Sands State Park is a public recreation area located on Long Island Sound in the city of Milford, Connecticut. [3] The state park consists of 297 acres (120 ha) of beach, dunes, restored salt marsh, open areas and woods as well as the 14-acre (5.7 ha) bird sanctuary of Charles Island. [4] The park offers swimming, picnicking, trails ...
Fishing pier at Walnut Beach. Walnut Beach is a town beach and surrounding neighborhood located in Milford, Connecticut and was formerly the site of an amusement park. A boardwalk along the shoreline connects to the beach at Silver Sands State Park to the east and Charles Island. History. In 1923, an amusement park was built at Walnut Beach by ...
Charles E. Wheeler Wildlife Management Area. / 41.181107; -73.109615. Charles E. Wheeler Wildlife Management Area is a 625-acre (253 ha) brackish tidal marsh, nature preserve and hunting area owned by the state of Connecticut located in Devon (village), Milford, New Haven County, Connecticut. [1] [2]
Old Connecticut Path. Coordinates: 42°21′19″N 71°20′42″W. Old Connecticut Path. in Wayland, Massachusetts. The Old Connecticut Path was the Native American trail that led westward from the area of Massachusetts Bay to the Connecticut River Valley, the first of the North American trails that led west from the settlements close to the ...
Laurel Beach, 1910. Milford has over 14 miles (23 km) of shoreline facing Long Island Sound, the most of any town in Connecticut. A large portion of Milford's shoreline forms the Silver Sands State Park. A newly built 3/4 mile boardwalk was opened in 2011 that connects Silver Sands to Walnut Beach in Devon.
Devon (Milford) Coordinates: 41.20°N 73.10°W. The village of Devon is a neighborhood of the city of Milford, Connecticut, United States. It lies on the southwest corner of the city bordering Long Island Sound and the mouth of the Housatonic River. The village generally corresponds to the Third Voting District of Milford.
Charles Island is a 14-acre (57,000 m 2) island located roughly 0.5 mile (1 km) off the coast of Milford, Connecticut, in Long Island Sound centered at 41°11′28.32″N 73°03′18″W . Charles Island is accessible from shore via a tombolo (locally referred to as a sandbar), which is exposed at low tide. According to early local histories ...
The Stewart B. McKinney National Wildlife Refuge is a 950-acre (384.5 ha) National Wildlife Refuge in ten units across the U.S. state of Connecticut.Located in the Atlantic Flyway, the refuge spans 70 miles (110 km) of Connecticut coastline and provides important resting, feeding, and nesting habitat for many species of wading birds, shorebirds, songbirds and terns, including the endangered ...