Stratford, Connecticut: Obsolete Toll Booths On Display

This is a large park with many other eclectic sights, like a model railroad museum and windmill.

A nice place for a picnic. Some of the attractions (models of presidents birth homes/Boothe estate tours/museum) are not open until summer.

In the early 1900's the wacky Boothe brothers decided to put together a park of attractions. Buildings from all over the world were re-constructed and appear haphazardly around the park. The Boothe boys would appear in parades dressed as Uncle Sams and other "interesting" characters.

Booth Park in Stratford has gardens, historical colonial farm stuff, 3 log toll booths disassembled from the old Milford toll booth, a windmill and a funky clock tower building. And there is a haunted room in one of the houses. The Boothe Brothers who amassed all this treasure were eccentrics to the locals, and left it as a public park, no admission, great picnicing, grassy hilly terrain, a perfect break from a long haul up the East coast.

My brother Eric just told me about a town park in Stratford -- Boothe Park, which, to quote him, "has a group of truly bizarre buildings (including a preserved section of the old toll booth from the Merritt Pkwy bridge spanning the Housatonic). Some of the buildings contain things like a rock/gem collection, etc. Pretty weird."