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Food Trail #3: Cookie Trail in Coastal Central Connecticut
ByJennRecord February 8, 2021July 21, 2022
We’re back with our 3rd Connecticut Food Trail (see the cupcake trail here and the chocolate shop trail here). We’re staying local this winter, due to the pandemic, and it’s turned out to be a great time to explore many local bakeries and restaurants. While we know there are hundreds of great spots throughout the Nutmeg state, we’ve researched bakeries near one another and created a trail that would be a fun way to spend an afternoon or whole day.
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Food Trail #2: Chocolate Shop Trail in Western Connecticut
ByJennRecord February 1, 2021July 21, 2022
Last week, we shared our first Food Trail, featuring 8 places to test homemade cupcakes in Coastal Fairfield County. Since then, many readers have shared additional spots we MUST try, so we’ll be adding to the trail soon! This week, we’re sharing the 2nd food trail in western Connecticut: chocolate shops. We think these food tours are a great way to spend an afternoon (or full day) as a family, try new foods (or new flavors of old favorites), and support local businesses. Here are 7 spots for homemade chocolates, and other delicious items.
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Food Trail #1: Cupcake Trail in Coastal Southwestern Connecticut
ByJennRecord January 25, 2021July 21, 2022
We are so excited to share the first in a new series for Coast2CoastwithKids: Food Trails. A couple of years ago, we found this great list of ice cream shoppes located in the greater Mystic, Connecticut area. It inspired us to research similar types of themed “tours” through Connecticut; we’ve seen these ideas when researching cities to visit and we wanted to create our own mini versions.
Due to the ongoing pandemic, and the rise in cases, we have been staying close to home, and mainly outdoors, which has allowed us the time to try hiking (here and here). We think these food trail will be a great way to spend an afternoon (or full day) as a family, try new foods (or new flavors of old favorites), and support local businesses. First up, we’re sharing 8 places to enjoy cupcakes from Norwalk to Fairfield (lower Fairfield County), where all items are homemade daily on premises.
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Connecticut | family travel | hiking | Mystic
10 Family Friendly Places to Hike in Mystic, Connecticut
ByJennRecord January 18, 2021November 12, 2023
One of our recent family goals, and new favorite activity, has been to enjoy the outdoors more by spending time exploring some of the 139 Connecticut State Parks and open spaces; see the full list here. Connecticut has over 210,000 acres of public, open spaces, and we’re slowly making our way through them all.
We spent time this fall exploring the western part of the state- mostly in Litchfield County- and you can read about some of those adventures in this post about 6 family friendly places to hike. This week, we want to share 10 places in the eastern Mystic region of the state we have recently explored:
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Connecticut | family travel | hiking | Litchfield
6 Family Friendly Places to Hike in Western Connecticut
ByJennRecord December 14, 2020November 11, 2023
One of the good things to come out of the COVID 19 pandemic for our family is the desire to spend more time outdoors. While we have always enjoyed outdoor spots like the beach, the zoo, and various parks, we’ve never really been “hikers.” Until 2020, we also didn’t have many opportunities to explore many Connecticut state parks. Connecticut has 110 state parks and hundreds of hiking trails. Check out this overview on Visit Connecticut.com, with links to alphabetized lists of parks and information. We’ve been fortunate to have time this past year to “hit the trails.” We’ll be sharing many of them in the coming weeks, including tips for hiking with kids in general, but this week we’re starting with six spots in the northwestern part of Connecticut that we like:
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30 Places We Love in Connecticut
ByJennRecord November 3, 2020July 15, 2023
Connecticut may be the third smallest state (5,543 square miles), but what it lacks in size, it makes up with so many fun places to explore and so many family friendly activities. I have lived in Fairfield County in Connecticut for 20 years. And over the past 20 years my family has explored most of the Nutmeg State, from Greenwich to Mystic and Fairfield to Torrington. Since our daughter was born over a decade ago, we’ve found just about every spot to be kid friendly. While we plan on adding to this list each month, and will share annual updates, this is our first round of places we love in Connecticut.
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