The Merritt Parkway
Route 15 from the New York state line east to the Housatonic, designated a scenic road by Connecticut in 1993 and one of the state's two National Scenic Byways. It crosses eight Fairfield County towns, and its bridges were designed individually rather than to a standard pattern. The route data here is the Connecticut Department of Transportation's scenic roads layer; the name is the one everyone uses, not a field in that dataset.
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Greenwich, Connecticut: Twenty-Five Coats and a Harbor PointGreenwich, Connecticut
Where the parkway enters Connecticut from the New York line, and the first of the eight towns it crosses.
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Stamford, Connecticut: Typewriters, Shavers, and a Rail JunctionStamford, Connecticut
The second town east, and the largest the parkway passes through.
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New Canaan, Connecticut: A Glass House and the Harvard FiveNew Canaan, Connecticut
The parkway clips New Canaan's southern edge between Stamford and Norwalk.
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Norwalk, Connecticut: Oyster Town and a Second Empire MansionNorwalk, Connecticut
Midway along the Fairfield County stretch, where the parkway crosses the Norwalk River valley.
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Westport, Connecticut: From Onion Fields to an Arts ColonyWestport, Connecticut
East of Norwalk, on the run toward Fairfield.
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Fairfield, Connecticut: Burned in 1779, Rebuilt on the GreenFairfield, Connecticut
The county's namesake town, and one of the longer stretches of the designation.
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Trumbull, Connecticut: A Vanished Amusement Park and a Tungsten MineTrumbull, Connecticut
North of Bridgeport, where the parkway turns toward the Housatonic.
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Stratford, Connecticut: Birthplace of the American HelicopterStratford, Connecticut
The last Connecticut town on the designated stretch, ending at the Housatonic River.
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