Where to Eat, Stay, and Play in New Haven

Hammonasset Beach State Park spans 936 acres, making it Connecticut’s largest shoreline state park. Stretching along more than two miles of sandy beachfront on Long Island Sound, the park offers a diverse landscape of beaches, dunes, salt marshes, wetlands, and woodlands. The name “Hammonasset” comes from an Eastern Woodland Indian term meaning “where we dig holes in the ground,” a reference to the agricultural practices of the Native Americans who once farmed corn, beans, and squash here, while