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Mumford Cove

Mumford Cove is a private association in Southeastern Connecticut located adjacent to Groton Long Point, bordered by Noank Connecticut Haley's Farm nature preserve, Palmer's Cove, and Fisher's Island Sound.

The place

Mumford Cove is a private association in Southeastern Connecticut located adjacent to Groton Long Point, bordered by Noank Connecticut Haley's Farm nature preserve, Palmer's Cove, and Fisher's Island Sound. It is a part of the town of Groton, Connecticut. The neighborhood was first developed in the late 1960s, and former Connecticut Governor John Dempsey briefly lived there.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Mumford Cove

2 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.

  1. 01
    Morgan Point Light

    Morgan Point Lighthouse is a lighthouse in Noank, Connecticut, United States, on the west side of the mouth of the Mystic River.

    2.2 km · lighthouse in Connecticut, United States built 1868 · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    North Dumpling Light

    North Dumpling Light is a lighthouse on North Dumpling Island in Long Island Sound off Fishers Island, New York, United States. It was constructed in 1849, rebuilt in 1871, and deactivated in 1959, with the aid to navigation being moved to an automated metal tower placed nearby.

    3.9 km · lighthouse in New York, United States · Wikipedia

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Getting to Mumford Cove

Airports
Rhode Island T. F. Green (PVD), 66 km · Bradley (BDL), 88 km · Boston Logan (BOS), 142 km
Stations
Groton-New London Airport, 2.7 km
  • Providence/Warwick → Mumford Cove
    62 km · quickest by road, 1h 30m · $6–8
  • Hartford → Mumford Cove
    74 km · quickest by road, 1h 57m · $7–10
  • New York → Mumford Cove
    180 km · quickest by road, 3h 58m · $17–24
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Mumford Cove

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Mumford Cove. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inFerries from Long Island, Block Island, and Fisher's Island are available, and many accommodate bicycles.
  • Get inLong Island Ferry service: +1 860-443-5281 Fisher's Island Ferry: +1 631-788-7463
  • Go nextRide the trolley all day for $5, catch it at any of the bus stations, ferry landings, or the New London visitor's center.
  • Go nextStonington is easy to get to, whether by car, boat, or ferry.

From Wikivoyage: Mystic, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    121 km
  2. 02
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    399 km
  3. 03
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    2,641 km
  4. 04
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    2,654 km
  5. 05
    SabaNL

    8 ways of moving, 22 sources

    2,764 km

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