A Picturesque, Quieter Novel England Autumn Drive
Big Apple Farm. Here, you'll discovery a groovy selection of pumpkins, apples (call ahead to discovery out if there's nonetheless apple tree picking), a bakery, farm stand upward with local make together with an H2O ice cream stand upward with Richardson's H2O ice cream. Pumpkin H2O ice cream is the appropriate flavor of the calendar month for October!
Back on Route 121, larn northward past times the Sheldonville Country Store together with create got a correct onto Burnt Swamp Rd., next the signs to Adam's Farm (the parking lot is correct on Summerbrown Rd.). H5N1 wonderful trivial seasonal destination, this peaceful farm sells apples, cornstalks, mums, hay, Indian corn, candy apples, cider together with gourds. Adams Farm every bit good features hay rides, a corn maze together with animals (cows, horses, goats)! It's best to larn far on the weekend when things are inwards total operation.
From Adam's Farm, proceed on Burnt Swamp Rd for a few minutes until arriving at the beautiful Diamond Hill (Cumberland) Reservoir. Isolated, scenic together with with some flourishes of autumn foliage, this is an incredibly beautiful expanse with expansive H2O views!
Follow the reservoir dorsum to Route 114, create got a correct together with larn far a few minutes afterward at the Ice Cream Machine. Regarded past times us, VisitingNewEngland.com, every bit the best H2O ice cream stand upward inwards New England, the Ice Cream Machine features thick together with creamy unique homemade flavors similar cinnamon, telephone substitution lime pie, brownie batter, ginger, raspberry cheesecake together with raspberry truffle. H5N1 canopied picnic expanse provides a restful identify to relish your pick of H2O ice cream.
On Route 114 a few minutes from the Ice Cream Machine is Phantom Farms, some other wonderful roadside farm stand. Phantom Farms is best known for apple tree picking (again telephone yell upward ahead at 401-333-2240) together with has a solid reason bake together with gift shop, garden center, together with bloom shop. Phantom Farms has a busy Columbus Day Weekend calendar of events with a pumpkin harvest festival together with Jack-O-Lantern illumination.
After enjoying the Ice Cream Machine together with Phantom Farms, create got a correct from the parking lot onto Route 114 for several miles until reaching the Route 295 S exit. Here, you'll create got to suffer a few miles of highway until reaching Route 44 west. Although Route 44 is somewhat commercial until the trip-back-in-time Smithfield neighborhood of Greenville (about xv minutes from Route 44/295), you'll live on amply rewarded with scenes of rural New England from this betoken on. Chepachet features a few antique stores together with the Brown together with Hopkins Country Store -- the oldest continuously running solid reason store inwards the States of America (1809). Past Chepachet, you'll overstep pleasing bodies of H2O until reaching Putnam, Conn. (about twenty minutes from Chepachet). Known past times many every bit the antique uppercase of New England, Putnam features 17 shops totalling 50,000 sq. ft. of merchandise. The centerpiece of antique shopping inwards Putnam is the Antiques Marketplace, at 109 Main St. (860- 928-0442), with iv floors of over 350 booths, showcasing to a greater extent than than 50,000 pieces of antiques spanning iii centuries! You'll every bit good experience a trip dorsum inwards fourth dimension feeling inwards Putnam with its piece of cake pace, former Montgomery Ward sign nonetheless intact, together with a to a greater extent than oftentimes than non friendly feeling. Putnam every bit good offers several restaurants, including 85 Main, which looks similar a terrific fine dining establishment, (run past times Barry Jessurun together with Brian Jessurun, owners of the landmark Vanilla Bean Cafe inwards neighboring Pomfret, Conn.).
Speaking of Pomfret together with the Vanilla Bean Cafe, nosotros beloved the town's classic hamlet light-green together with surrounding countryside together with the Bean's cozy, restored 1800s farmhouse personality with delicious breakfasts, lunches together with dinners. From the Vanilla Bean, create got Route 169 northward into the classic New England town of Woodstock with its beautiful town common, serial of good maintained large former homes together with tall white steeple church building look. In Woodstock, you'll discovery the Inn at Woodstock, a charming 1816 inn consisting of a Federal/Georgian mode mansion with a wagon menage together with 2 barns. Each room has its ain unique personality together with the Inn every bit good features a fine, upscale restaurant.
We've received reports that the Woodstock expanse is close peak foliage, together with then enjoy!
Going Route 169 south, again, through Pomfret together with all the agency to Caterbury (about a one-half threescore minutes from Woodstock) offers 1 of the best scenic drives inwards New England with nearly 200 pre-1855 homes along with farms, historic churches, rolling solid reason hills together with quintessential Connecticut hamlet light-green centers. Here, you'll empathize why northeast Connecticut has been called "The Quiet Corner."
From Canterbury, create got Route fourteen due east to Route 395 northward (highway) dorsum to Route 44 due east to Route 114 to Cumberland to Route 121 north, en route to your master copy starting betoken of Wrentham.
If you lot create upward one's heed to locomote this region, nosotros promise you lot relish its especial qualities along the way. Please allow us know how everything turned out!
Best regards,
Eric (your New England locomote friend)
Adam's Farm, Cumberland, R.I.
Vanilla Bean Cafe, Pomfret, Conn.
The Big Apple Farm, Wrentham, Mass.
Old-fashioned Putnam, Conn.
Phantom Farms, Cumberland, R.I.
Back on Route 121, larn northward past times the Sheldonville Country Store together with create got a correct onto Burnt Swamp Rd., next the signs to Adam's Farm (the parking lot is correct on Summerbrown Rd.). H5N1 wonderful trivial seasonal destination, this peaceful farm sells apples, cornstalks, mums, hay, Indian corn, candy apples, cider together with gourds. Adams Farm every bit good features hay rides, a corn maze together with animals (cows, horses, goats)! It's best to larn far on the weekend when things are inwards total operation.
From Adam's Farm, proceed on Burnt Swamp Rd for a few minutes until arriving at the beautiful Diamond Hill (Cumberland) Reservoir. Isolated, scenic together with with some flourishes of autumn foliage, this is an incredibly beautiful expanse with expansive H2O views!
Follow the reservoir dorsum to Route 114, create got a correct together with larn far a few minutes afterward at the Ice Cream Machine. Regarded past times us, VisitingNewEngland.com, every bit the best H2O ice cream stand upward inwards New England, the Ice Cream Machine features thick together with creamy unique homemade flavors similar cinnamon, telephone substitution lime pie, brownie batter, ginger, raspberry cheesecake together with raspberry truffle. H5N1 canopied picnic expanse provides a restful identify to relish your pick of H2O ice cream.
On Route 114 a few minutes from the Ice Cream Machine is Phantom Farms, some other wonderful roadside farm stand. Phantom Farms is best known for apple tree picking (again telephone yell upward ahead at 401-333-2240) together with has a solid reason bake together with gift shop, garden center, together with bloom shop. Phantom Farms has a busy Columbus Day Weekend calendar of events with a pumpkin harvest festival together with Jack-O-Lantern illumination.
After enjoying the Ice Cream Machine together with Phantom Farms, create got a correct from the parking lot onto Route 114 for several miles until reaching the Route 295 S exit. Here, you'll create got to suffer a few miles of highway until reaching Route 44 west. Although Route 44 is somewhat commercial until the trip-back-in-time Smithfield neighborhood of Greenville (about xv minutes from Route 44/295), you'll live on amply rewarded with scenes of rural New England from this betoken on. Chepachet features a few antique stores together with the Brown together with Hopkins Country Store -- the oldest continuously running solid reason store inwards the States of America (1809). Past Chepachet, you'll overstep pleasing bodies of H2O until reaching Putnam, Conn. (about twenty minutes from Chepachet). Known past times many every bit the antique uppercase of New England, Putnam features 17 shops totalling 50,000 sq. ft. of merchandise. The centerpiece of antique shopping inwards Putnam is the Antiques Marketplace, at 109 Main St. (860- 928-0442), with iv floors of over 350 booths, showcasing to a greater extent than than 50,000 pieces of antiques spanning iii centuries! You'll every bit good experience a trip dorsum inwards fourth dimension feeling inwards Putnam with its piece of cake pace, former Montgomery Ward sign nonetheless intact, together with a to a greater extent than oftentimes than non friendly feeling. Putnam every bit good offers several restaurants, including 85 Main, which looks similar a terrific fine dining establishment, (run past times Barry Jessurun together with Brian Jessurun, owners of the landmark Vanilla Bean Cafe inwards neighboring Pomfret, Conn.).
Speaking of Pomfret together with the Vanilla Bean Cafe, nosotros beloved the town's classic hamlet light-green together with surrounding countryside together with the Bean's cozy, restored 1800s farmhouse personality with delicious breakfasts, lunches together with dinners. From the Vanilla Bean, create got Route 169 northward into the classic New England town of Woodstock with its beautiful town common, serial of good maintained large former homes together with tall white steeple church building look. In Woodstock, you'll discovery the Inn at Woodstock, a charming 1816 inn consisting of a Federal/Georgian mode mansion with a wagon menage together with 2 barns. Each room has its ain unique personality together with the Inn every bit good features a fine, upscale restaurant.
We've received reports that the Woodstock expanse is close peak foliage, together with then enjoy!
Going Route 169 south, again, through Pomfret together with all the agency to Caterbury (about a one-half threescore minutes from Woodstock) offers 1 of the best scenic drives inwards New England with nearly 200 pre-1855 homes along with farms, historic churches, rolling solid reason hills together with quintessential Connecticut hamlet light-green centers. Here, you'll empathize why northeast Connecticut has been called "The Quiet Corner."
From Canterbury, create got Route fourteen due east to Route 395 northward (highway) dorsum to Route 44 due east to Route 114 to Cumberland to Route 121 north, en route to your master copy starting betoken of Wrentham.
If you lot create upward one's heed to locomote this region, nosotros promise you lot relish its especial qualities along the way. Please allow us know how everything turned out!
Best regards,
Eric (your New England locomote friend)
Adam's Farm, Cumberland, R.I.
Vanilla Bean Cafe, Pomfret, Conn.
The Big Apple Farm, Wrentham, Mass.
Old-fashioned Putnam, Conn.
Phantom Farms, Cumberland, R.I.
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