Avon, an affluent town in Hartford County's Farmington Valley, is home to the prestigious Avon Old Farms School, a renowned boarding school. The town also boasts historical gems, including the Pine Grove School House, built in 1865 and now preserved as a museum open to the public. Visitors will also find high quality restaurants and coffee shops around every corner.

The J House Greenwich is a premiere lifestyle destination featuring luxury hotel accommodations, farm-to-table cuisine, outdoor dining, wide-ranging event capabilities, rejuvenating spa services, and a premium coffee bar. This location combines stylish decor and high-tech amenities with warmth and hospitality. Featuring 85 luxurious technologically advanced rooms and suites, including a Presidential Suite, ideal for both the business and leisure traveler. All rooms are equipped with iPad room controls and complimentary Wifi and internet access. LED televisions throughout the guest rooms, as

A great destination for family fun with pick-your-own fruits, locally sourced food, handmade pies, three award-winning golf courses, annual fruit festivals and a variety of indoor/outdoor meeting and event space. Established in 1741, the farm is located on 1,100 acres in the beautiful Connecticut River Valley. With more than 100 different varieties of fruit to pick from June through November, you'll find ones that you love all harvest long. The season starts with strawberries in June and rolls through raspberries, blueberries, jostaberries, peaches, pears, nectarines, apples and pumpkins. The

The trail features seven routes with sites that are open to the public, including working farms with farm stands, orchards, wineries, historic sites with tours, displays and living history. The routes are designed to guide a visitor in a car or bicycle along scenic roads with landscapes accented by barns viewable from the road but not open to the public. Guides to the scenic drives are available as a printed map; request one at email [email protected] to. Click here to download the brochure.

The gallery is a studio and exhibition space and is part of the International Contemporary Artist Space (ICAS), LLC which fosters residency and cultural exchange programs as well as enriching local community through art, workshops, events and groups where artists and member of the local community interact and share experience, thoughts and artistic visions. Their mission is to provide local, national, and international artists with workshops and exhibition space. The gallery offers regular instructional art workshops, gallery exhibitions, and hosts a cultural exchange of residency program

In 2009, Congress designated about 200 miles of hiking trails in Massachusetts and Connecticut as a National Scenic Trail. This is New England's first nationally-designated trail since the Appalachian Trail was established in 1968. Now, the New England Trail covers 215 miles from Long Island Sound across long ridges to scenic mountain summits in Connecticut and Masssachusetts. The trail offers panoramic vistas and close-ups of New England's natural and cultural landscape: traprock ridges, historic village centers, farmlands, unfragmented forests, quiet streams, steep river valleys and

The PAST Antiques Marketplace at Nature’s Art Village is an antique shopper’s delight and a collector’s showcase featuring Southeastern Connecticut’s newest antique shopping emporium with over 90 unique vendors. Voted Yankee Magazine's 2014 Editor's Choice "Best Antiques Stop", The Past Antiques Marketplace displays two floors - over 14,000 sq. ft! - of antique tools, furniture, glassware, collectibles, and more! Our bright, clean and friendly market is climate controlled, and fully handicap accessible inside & out. A wide variety of one-of-a-kind items are added regularly making every visit a

Brewery in a renovated 114-year-old building offering a tasting room, brewery tours, and company store. Brewing team led by Connecticut native Phil Markowski, who has been professionally brewing since the 1980s and is the winner of more than 20 Great American Beer Festival medals. Tasting room and company store are open to the public six days a week and the beer garden is open in the summer Thursday through Sunday. Snacks available or bring your food. Food trucks parked outside Tuesday-Sunday. Brewery tours offered on Fridays at 630 p.m., Saturdays 1, 2, 2:30, 3, 3:30, 4 and 5 p.m., and

One of the premier music venues in the country which has attracted major performers as well as local and regional acts since 1975. Other amenities: Dining Nearby

Built more than 70 years ago as a motion picture theater, restored in 1992 to its former art deco style, now provides live entertainment. Performers of every music genre grace the stage, from reggae, stage to soul, debates to dancing, movies and more. Other amenities: Dining Nearby, Parking