15 days in Connecticut Itinerary

Your inner history buff will appreciate Olde Mistick Village and Gillette Castle State Park. Eschew the tourist crowds and head to Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center and Charles W. Morgan. Explore the numerous day-trip ideas around Mystic: Madison (RJ Julia Booksellers & Hammonasset Beach State Park). Next up on the itinerary: get up close and personal with brilliant marine life at Mystic Aquarium, get engrossed in the history at Mystic Seaport Museum, try to win big at Foxwoods Resort Casino, and immerse yourself in nature at Harkness Memorial State Park.

For traveler tips, ratings, and more tourist information, read our Mystic trip builder.

Brussels, Belgium to Mystic is an approximately 14.5-hour combination of flight and train. You can also do a combination of train and flight. The time zone difference when traveling from Brussels to Mystic is minus 6 hours. Traveling from Brussels in February, Mystic is little chillier at night with lows of 23°F. Wrap up your sightseeing on the 18th (Sat) to allow time to drive to Norwalk.

Get outdoors at Weir Farm National Historic Site and Compo Beach. Eschew the tourist crowds and head to Silver Sands State Park and Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. Venture out of the city with trips to New Milford (Harrybrooke Park & Lovers Leap State Park), Southford Falls State Park (in Oxford) and New Haven (Yale University Art Gallery & Yale Center for British Art).

To find photos, reviews, more things to do, and tourist information, refer to the Norwalk online travel route planner.

Traveling by car from Mystic to Norwalk takes 1.5 hours. In February in Norwalk, expect temperatures between 40°F during the day and 24°F at night. Wrap up your sightseeing on the 22nd (Wed) to allow time to drive to Hartford.

Popular historic sites such as Harriet Beecher Stowe Center and Connecticut's Old State House are in your itinerary. Discover out-of-the-way places like Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art and Kent Falls State Park. You'll find plenty of places to visit near Hartford: Steep Rock Preserve (in Washington Depot), Litchfield (Tapping Reeve House and Law School, Ripley Waterfowl Conservancy, &more) and Sleeping Giant State Park (in Hamden).

For more things to do, other places to visit, ratings, and other tourist information, go to the Hartford trip planner.

Traveling by car from Norwalk to Hartford takes 1.5 hours. Alternatively, you can take a train; or take a bus. February in Hartford sees daily highs of 39°F and lows of 22°F at night. Finish your sightseeing early on the 1st (Wed) so you can fly back home.