Most swimming areas at Connecticut state parks have reopened after several were closed this week due to elevated levels of bacteria in the water. The beaches that reopened included West Beach in Rocky ...

Lake Waramaug State Park’s beach was closed due to water quality concerns. The beach in Kent was one of four that were closed at one point this week. The beaches at Indian Well State Park in Shelton, ...

The emergency spillway area is a designated fossil collection zone where visitors can hunt for and keep fossils of brachiopods, trilobites, and other marine creatures that called this area home about ...