Riding & Racing

There’s always something going on at The Shoreline Trolley Museum in East Haven, paying a lively tribute to a mode of transportation once common in every American city. The museum owns nearly 100 vintage transit vehicles and thousands of artifacts associated with trolley travel. Best of all, you can hop aboard one of the cars to experience a trolley ride through miles of shoreline scenery.

Next, get everyone up to the On Track Karting in Wallingford offers three levels of high-performance, gas-powered karting. All three levels of karting run on our indoor circuit with our sophisticated timing & scoring for a true racing experience

For more in the way of wheels, head west beginning in early June to Thomaston, the home of the Naugatuck Railroad and the Railroad Museum of New England. The experience begins at the 1881 Thomaston train station (featured in the movie “Revolutionary Road”), where you’ll board restored vintage passenger coaches for a scenic ride along the Naugatuck River south to Waterbury and back again.

Next day comes a pleasant ride through the countryside of northwestern Connecticut over to Lime Rock Park in Lakeville, a big-time auto racing track (Le Mans style, not an oval) in a beautiful natural setting. Learn how much fun spectators can have at a car race when they can roam the grounds and watch from a grassy corner instead of a packed grandstand.