Everything Old Lyme
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” Old Lyme CTMQ-style… as well as the other 168 towns, cities, and boroughs in Connecticut. That is the ultimate goal of CTMQ.
If I’ve missed anything in town or if anything has closed or changed, please let me know.
All The CTMQ Old Lyme Stuff
Museums
The Cooley Gallery
Florence Griswold Museum
Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts Galleries
Lyme Art Association Gallery
Nut Museum (Closed, now transient)
Old Lyme Historical Society Museum & Exhibits
Roger Tory Peterson Estuary Center
Studio 80 + Sculpture Grounds
Hikes & Paddles
Ferry Landing State Park
Roger Tory Peterson/Great Island Wildlife Area/ Silvio O. Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge
Old Lyme Land Trust – Intro
- Belton Copp Preserve
Bob & Esther Heller Preserve
The Boggy Hole Preserve
Elizabeth B. Karter Watch Rock Preserve
The George & Woodward H. Griswold Preserve
The Goberis Chadwick Preserve
Hatchetts Hill Preserve
The Hoffman-Matthiessen-DeGerenday Preserve
The Jericho Preserve
John Lohmann CT River Preserve
Lay Preserve
The Lohmann Buck Twining Preserve
The Mile Creek Preserve
Upper Three Mile River Preserve
Old Lyme’s Town Trails – Intro
- Bartholomew Preserve
Champlain North
Champlain South
Deborah and Edward Ames Preserve
McCulloch Family Open Space
CT River Estuary Kayak Trail
Food & Drink
CT Chocolate Trail: The Chocolate Shell
CT Ice Cream Trail: Hallmark Drive-In
Looking for your favorite restaurant? Here is an explanation as to why it’s not here.
Everything Else
National Historic Landmark: Florence Griswold Museum
CT Historic Garden: Florence Griswold Museum
CT Women’s Heritage Trail: Florence Griswold Museum
CT Art Trail: Florence Griswold Museum
CT Underground RR Trail: Steven Peck House
CT Carousel Trail: Carousel at Sound View
Blood Road
Blood Road Covered Bridge
22 Lyme Street
Sheep’s Ledge & Caves at Ames Preserve
Mary Steube Fishway
Rogers Lake Fishway
Old Lyme Wrap-Up
Completion Celebration TBD
Florence Griswold House
Cheryl Poirier says
April 30, 2018 at 11:09 amI would love to share with you all of the wonderful family activities available in the Old Lyme Arts District on Lyme Street! You’ve already experienced Studio 80 and the Lyme Art Association and Lyme Academy galleries, I hope you will consider coming to the Florence Griswold Museum, where your boys will enjoy “Can You Find Me” eye-spy cards to navigate the historic boardinghouse and art galleries. If you come by on a Sunday, your family can have a mini-art lesson on landscape painting and then we’ll give you all you need to go out on the riverbank or in the garden to paint your own masterpiece.
Lyme Street has great spots for lunch (or an ice cream!), musical performances, and as you’ve seen, art. Looking forward to your “completion” of Old Lyme!