4 Best Sights in Cornwall, The Litchfield Hills

Visitors are welcome to watch potters as they work, producing a variety of items that are fired in an on-site, 35-foot-long, wood-fired tube kiln. A selection of items—including seconds—are available for purchase in the workshop. A larger store, located farther north in West Cornwall (415 Sharon-Goshen Turnpike), offers the wood-fired pots along with complementary items made by local glassmakers, woodworkers, and metalsmiths.

The park is marked by its tall pine trees near the Housatonic River and has terrific riverside campsites (seasonal). Fly-fishers consider this 2-mile stretch of the river among the best places in New England to test their skills catching trout and bass (license required).

This is a family-friendly park: no alcohol allowed.

With 11 miles of hiking trails, this 1,147-acre property—a mixture of forests, meadows, wetlands, ponds, and streams—provides myriad hiking opportunities. The visitor center shares its space with small hawks, an owl, and other animals in the live-animal display in the Natural History Exhibit Room; in the Children's Adventure Center, kids learn about the importance of water quality and watersheds, crawl through a tunnel to a beaver lodge, and look for various fish and other sea life in the large aquarium.

A romantic reminder of the past, this single-lane bridge over the Housatonic River is on Route 128, just east of U.S. 7, in West Cornwall. The 172-feet-long and 15-feet-wide lattice truss bridge was built in 1841 and still carries vehicular traffic. The design incorporates strut techniques that were later copied by bridge builders around the country.