Conning Towers-Nautilus Park
Conning Towers Nautilus Park is a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Groton in New London County, Connecticut, United States.

Conning Towers Nautilus Park is a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Groton in New London County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 9,828 at the 2010 census. The statistical area consists of the portion of the town in the vicinity of Route 12 and includes Naval Submarine Base New London.
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Worth seeing in and around Conning Towers-Nautilus Park
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Connecticut College
Connecticut College is a private liberal arts college in New London, Connecticut, United States. Originally chartered as Thames College but soon changed to Connecticut College for Women, it was founded in 1911 as the state's only women's college, a response to Wesleyan University having closed its doors to female students in 1909.
2.7 km · college in New London, Connecticut, US · Wikipedia - 02Gungywamp
Gungywamp is an archaeological site in Groton, Connecticut consisting of artifacts and the remains of colonial structures. The site includes the remains of houses and a storage structure, as well as a double circle of stones near its center.
1.3 km · archaeological site in CT · Wikipedia - 03Groton Monument
The Groton Monument, sometimes called the Fort Griswold Monument, is a 135 feet granite obelisk in Groton, Connecticut dedicated to the defenders who fell during the Battle of Groton Heights on September 6, 1781. The monument bears a plaque describing the events of the Battle of Groton Heights, and another plaque with the names of the Americans who died in the battle.
3.2 km · Granite monument in Groton, Connecticut · Wikipedia - 04Submarine Force Library and Museum
The United States Navy Submarine Force Library and Museum is located on the Thames River in Groton, Connecticut. It is the only submarine museum managed exclusively by the Naval History & Heritage Command division of the Navy, and this makes it a repository for many special submarine items of national significance, including USS Nautilus.
1.6 km · military museum in Connecticut, United States · Wikipedia - 05Acors Barns House
The Acors Barns House is located at 68 Federal Street at the corner of Meridian Street in New London, Connecticut. Barns was a wealthy merchant in the whaling industry whose company became one of the largest whaling firms in the city.
3.6 km · house in New London, Connecticut · Wikipedia - 06Fort Griswold
Fort Griswold is a former American defensive fortification in Groton, Connecticut named after Deputy Governor Matthew Griswold. The fort played a key role in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War, in correspondence with Fort Trumbull on the opposite side of the Thames River.
3.2 km · fort in Connecticut · Wikipedia - 07Lyman Allyn Art Museum
The Lyman Allyn Art Museum is located in New London, Connecticut, and was founded in 1926 by Lyman Allyn's daughter Harriet Upson Allyn. Its collection includes European and non-Western art as well as American fine and decorative art, 17th-century European works on paper, 19th-century American paintings, and contemporary art.
3.1 km · museum in New London, Connecticut · Wikipedia - 08Public Library of New London
The Public Library of New London is a historic library located at 63 Huntington Street at the corner of State Street, New London, Connecticut. The library was given to the city by Henry Philemon Haven.
3.9 km · library in New London, Connecticut, United States · Wikipedia - 09Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish
Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish is a church designated for Polish immigrants in Quaker Hill, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1904, it is one of the Polish-American Roman Catholic parishes in New England in the Diocese of Norwich.
3.3 km · church in Connecticut, United States · Wikipedia - 10St. James Episcopal Church
St. James Episcopal Church at 76 Federal Street at the corner of Huntington Street in New London, Connecticut is a historic church in the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut.
3.8 km · church in New London, Connecticut · Wikipedia
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Getting to Conning Towers-Nautilus Park
- Airports
- Rhode Island T. F. Green (PVD), 66 km · Bradley (BDL), 80 km · Boston Logan (BOS), 140 km
- Stations
- New London Union Station, 3.6 km · Groton station, 2.6 km
- Providence/Warwick → Conning Towers-Nautilus Park60 km · quickest by road, 1h 26m · $6–8
- Hartford → Conning Towers-Nautilus Park66 km · quickest by road, 1h 41m · $7–10
- New York → Conning Towers-Nautilus Park179 km · quickest by road, 3h 47m · $17–23
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- Get inis located at 27 Water St, with easy connections to buses and ferries.
- Get inFrom Central Long Island Port Jefferson Ferry, Phone: +1 631-473-5138.
- Get inFrom Orient Point, Long Island, New York Cross Sound Ferry, Phone: +1 631-323-2525 or +1 860-443-5281.
- Get inRegional Airport - No scheduled service - Only receive charter and private airplanes
- Go nextTake the Cross Sound Ferry to Orient on Long Island's North Fork and then continue on to New York City.
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