Connecticut: An Explorer's Guide, Sixth Edition

With gas prices so high, travelers are looking for vacation destinations that are closer to home. Connecticut is the perfect place to launch your New England holiday.

From summertime fun—fishing, sailing, swimming, garden touring, and more—to flaming fall foliage and wintertime activities like downhill and cross country skiing, Connecticut has it all.

And for more than 10 years, veteran travel writers Barnett Laschever and Andi Marie Cantele have offered authoritative, trustworthy advice for what to see, where to eat, and where to stay throughout the Nutmeg state. Praised by the Hartford Courant as the most comprehensive guide to Connecticut, this completely revised, expanded and updated guide features extensive listings of activities, attractions, and lodging and dining establishments; an alphabetical "What's Where" guide to aid in trip planning; 20 regional and downtown maps; and helpful icons indicate places that are wheelchair-accessible, pet- and family-friendly, and places of special value. 20 maps, 100 black and white photographs, index.

Barnett D. Laschever was Connecticut's director of tourism for more than 17 years, and, for more than 30 years, has been a travel editor and writer for such newspapers as the Hartford Courant, the Hartford Times, and the New York Herald-Tribune. For three years he was managing editor for Fodor's Guides, and he is also the author of five books for children. He lives in Goshen, Connecticut. Andi Marie Cantele is the author of New Jersey: An Explorer's Guide, Backroad Bicycling in Connecticut, Backroad Bicycling in Western Massachusetts, and Backroad Bicycling in New Hampshire. She lives in Litchfield, Connecticut. She is a contributing editor to the Yankee Magazine Travel Guide to New England, and her work has appeared in Best Places to Stay in New England, Bark magazine, and other publications. She lives in Litchfield, Connecticut.