Howard Johnson Plazas, Hotels, Inns, and Express Inns - Vernon, CT

Quirky Tourist Attractions in or near Connecticut

While in Connecticut, you might enjoy a visit to:

Nash Dino Land was opened by Carlton and Edna Nash in 1939. They're gone, but son Cornell keeps this place going, and he's expanding the quarry!
~32 miles from Vernon.

Not TV's mangy mountain man, but the actual "Grizzly Adams," who killed or befriended bears, depending on his mood.
~34 miles from Vernon.

Displays include "relics" from the reinterrment of Knights' founder Father McGivney, who was up for canonization.
~42 miles from Vernon.

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