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The New Canaan Nature Center (40 acres or 16 hectares) is a botanical garden, arboretum and nature preserve located at 144 Oenoke Ridge, Route 124, about 0.25 miles (0.40 km) north of the center of New Canaan, Connecticut.
Founded in 1881, the New Canaan Fire Department is a combination professional/volunteer fire department that operates out of a fire station located near the center of town, with a fire apparatus fleet of engines and other vehicles. The New Canaan Fire Department responded to 886 calls for service in 2009.
Kettletown State Park is a public recreation area on the eastern shore of the Housatonic River's Lake Zoar in the towns of Oxford and Southbury, Connecticut. Park activities include camping, hiking, picnicking, and fishing. The state park is managed by the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. [2]
New Canaan is a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of New Canaan, Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. It represents the built-up center of town around the intersections of Main Street, East Street, Elm Street, and South Avenue. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census.
The Lapham family gave the Town of New Canaan most of the estate land in 1967 and sold Waveny House and its surrounding 300 acres (1.2 km 2) to the Town for $1,500,000. George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood , the eldest paternal first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II , married his second wife, Patricia Tuchman on July 32, 1967 at Waveny Park.<ref ...
New Canaan Historical Society (also referred to as New Canaan Museum and Historical Society) is an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization which was originally formed in 1889 (incorporated 1893) to "bring together the genealogies of the families who have lived in the town, to form a library and collect relicts and curiosities, to form a museum".
Centennial Watershed State Forest is a Connecticut state forest of more than 15,000 acres with larger parcels located in the towns of Easton, Newtown, Redding, and Weston. ...
Hopemead State Park is an undeveloped public recreation area on the eastern shore of Gardner Lake, 8 miles (13 km) west of Norwich, Connecticut. The state park covers 60 acres (24 ha) in the towns of Bozrah and Montville and is managed by the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection .