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CTMQ > CTMQ Town Guides > CTMQ’s Guide to Essex

CTMQ’s Guide to Essex

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Everything Essex

I’ve been exploring and writing about Connecticut since 2006. After a decade, I began compiling CTMQ guides for each town in the state. I plan on “completing” Essex CTMQ-style… as well as the other 168 towns, cities, and boroughs in Connecticut. After all, that is the ultimate goal of CTMQ.

What do you know about the river town that wins awards for being quaint? You can scroll down for my list of things to do in town. Or, as always, you can click on the town’s tag to see what I’ve done.

If I’ve missed anything in town or if anything has closed or changed, please let me know.

All The CTMQ Essex Stuff

Links take you to my reports

Museums

Bushy Hill Nature Center
Connecticut River Museum
Essex Art Association
Griswold Inn Art/History Tour
Hills Academy History Center
Ivoryton Playhouse
Museum of the Fife and Drum
Pratt House Museum
River Valley Junction
Three Art Galleries:

    Cooper & Smith Gallery
    Melanie Carr Gallery
    Six Summit Gallery

Hikes & Paddles

Essex Land Trust – Intro

    Cross Lots
    Falls River Preserve
    Fern Ledge & Farm Hill Estates
    Heron Pond Preserve
    James Glen
    Jean’s Island
    Johnson Farm
    The Millrace
    North Cove
    Osage Trails
    The Preserve
    South Cove
    Tiley Pratt Pond
    Windswept Ridge

Town Trails – Intro

    Bushy Hill Nature Preserve
    Canfield/Meadow Woods
    Viney Hill Brook Park/Preserve

The Nature Conservancy Trail – Intro

    Turtle Creek Preserve

CT River Estuary Canoe & Kayak Trail (Incl. ELT Water Trails)

    North Cove
    Middle Cove
    South Cove

Food & Drink

US Oldest: The Griswold Inn
Annual Shad Bake
CT Chocolate Trail: truffle shots

Looking for your favorite restaurant? Here is an explanation as to why it’s not here.

Everything Else

Oldest Co-Ed Camp in the US, Camp Incarnation
CT Valley Rail Road State Park
Named Rocks of Canfield-Meadow Woods Preserve
The Oliver Cromwell Revolutionary Warship Site
Model train exhibit at CT River Museum
Calamari Recycling
Brockway Island
1,000 Places to See Before You Die: Essex!
First Baptist Church
Three Cool Historic Houses:

    The David Williams House
    The Smith-Dickinson House
    Pratt Village Smithy


Burning of the Ships Commemoration, a.k.a. Loser’s Day Parade
Winter Wildlife & Bald Eagle Cruise

Completion Celebration Meal & Essex Wrap-Up

Sunday Hunt Brunch, The Griswold Inn

Essex… You’re on notice!

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Filed Under: CTMQ Town Guides, New Post Tagged With: Essex, Middlesex County

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Comments

  1. Joe Budrow says

    June 4, 2018 at 10:27 pm

    Hello Steve…I work in Essex. More for ya!

    Gallery in the heart of Centerbrook is Spectrum Gallery

    More great eats: The Essex (CTBK) Blue Hound Cookery and Taproom (IVTN) Black Seal (SX) Scotch Plains Tavern (SX

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