Telephone:
(860) 424-3200
(866) 287-2757

Directions
From the West/New York area: take I-684 onto I-84 east toward Danbury. Take Exit 5 and go left at the traffic light onto Route 39 north, following the signs to Squantz Pond. The park is located off Route 39 approximately 4? miles north of the center of New Fairfield.

Telephone:
(860) 424-3200
(866) 287-2757

Directions
From I-95 north and south: take Exit 18 to access the Sherwood Island Connector. Follow the Connector directly into the park.

Telephone:
(860) 424-3200
(866) 287-2757

From the North: take Route 8, Exit 42 onto Route 118. Follow Route 118 into Litchfield, then pick up Route 202. Mount Tom is on Route 202. When you see a lake on the left, look for park signs.

Telephone:
(860) 424-3200
(866) 287-2757

Directions
From New Milford: follow Route 202 to New Preston. Turn left onto Route 45. Take a left onto North Shore Road and follow the signs around the lake to the park.

From Torrington/Litchfield: follow Route 118 to Litchfield. At the intersection of Routes 118 and 202 in Litchfield bear left onto Route 202. Follow Route 202 to New Preston. Take a right onto Route 45 and then a left onto North Shore Road. Continue around the lake to the park.

Telephone:
(860) 424-3200
(866) 287-275

Directions
Follow Route 341 west from the intersection of Route 341 and Route 7 in the center of Kent. Turn right onto Macedonia Brook Road. Stay left at the intersection of Macedonia Brook and Fuller Mountain Roads. Look for park signs.

Telephone:
(860) 424-3200
(866) 287-2757

Directions
From the North ? Pittsfield and Great Barrington, MA areas: travel south on Route 7 into Kent, CT. The park is located along Route 7 approximately 3 miles south of the intersection with Route 45, and approximately 4.5 miles north of the village of Kent.

Telephone:
(860) 424-3200
(866) 287-2757

Directions
From the North: take Route 8 south, Exit 44 ? (Route 4). Head west on Route 4, through Torrington, for 1? miles to the junction of Route 272. Head north on Route 272 for about 4 miles. The park is located on the right of Route 272. Watch for the State Park shield sign.

Telephone:
(860) 424-3200
(866) 287-2757

Directions
From Route 8 north: take Exit 14. At the end of the exit ramp take a left, and then take the next left onto Howe Avenue. Go north for approximately 2? miles. Indian Well State Park will be on the right.
From Route 8 south: take Exit 14. Take a right and drive approximately 2? miles. Indian Well State Park will be on the right.

Telephone:
(860) 424-3200
(866) 287-2757

From the East ? Hartford area: travel west on I-84, take Exit 39. Continue west on Route 4. From Cornwall Bridge after crossing the Housatonic River, turn north on Route 7. The park is located in Sharon, CT along Route 7, approximately 2 miles north of the intersection with Route 4.

Telephone:
(860) 424-3200
(866) 287-2757

From the South ? Greater Danbury area: travel north on Route 7 into Canaan and take a right heading east on Route 44, then take a left onto Route 272 north. The park will be on the left.

Telephone:
(860) 424-3200
(866) 287-2757

Directions
From the North ? Great Barrington or Pittsfield, MA: travel south on Route 7 into Canaan and take a left heading east on Route 44, then take a right onto Route 272 south. The park will be on the left.

Telephone:
(860) 424-3200
(866) 287-2757

HOURS:
The park is open from 8 am to sunset.

Telephone:
(860) 424-3200
(866) 287-2757

Directions
Off I-91S: take Route 9S Exit to the end. Take 1-95N to Groton, Exit 88. Turn right and go to the end. Take a right turn onto Route 1. Take a left at the light onto Depot Road. Go to the end.

For information on volunteering for trail activities throughout the state contact the Connecticut Forest and Park Association, 16 Meriden Road, Rockfall, CT 06481.

How does our environment influence our creativity? Weir Farm National Historic Site is a place where visitors and artists can explore this question in various ways. To American Impressionist painter J. Alden Weir (1852 ? 1919), his beloved Connecticut farm provided him with the means to explore his emotional and spiritual impressions of nature. Weir and his contemporaries (such as Childe Hassam and John Twachtman) were inspired by French Impressionism?s emphasis on painting outdoors and trying to capture light and motion in landscape. The American artists, though, also imbued their work with a strong sense of their intimate emotional relationships with their homeplaces. For 37 years, Weir and visiting friends painted hundreds of canvases featuring the gentle rolling hills, rocky pastures, and human and animal life of Weir Farm. After Weir?s death in 1919, the next two generations of farm occupants were also artists. Weir?s daughter Dorothy Weir Young lived here for thirtyodd years with her husband, the renowned sculptor Mahonri Young. After Young?s death, the farm was sold to his friend and landscape painter Sperry Andrews and his wife Doris. Each generation of occupants newly found creative inspiration in the fields, studios, and woods of Weir Farm. Above all, each generation recognized the artistic legacy and spirit of the place and helped preserve it. Weir Farm?s gentle, pastoral landscape, once characteristic of New England, is now a rare vestige of 19th century life. Park visitors today can still see many of the landscape features, vistas and buildings painted by Weir and other artists. In addition to experiencing this historically significant artistic landscape, visitors are welcome to explore their own artistic potential here by painting, sketching, and photographing the site. The National Park Service and its private partner the Weir Farm Trust also share the mission of providing professional artists with more structured opportunities to engage in creative activity, such as the Trust?s Visiting and Resident Artists programs. Weir Farm is at once a memory of our artistic past, a studio space for artists now, and a promise for continued inspiration in our artistic future. For information on: The Visiting Artist Program The ArtistInResidence Program The Weir Farm Trust

Address:
735 Nod Hill Road
Wilton, CT 06897

Phone: Visitor Information 2038341896