Ridgefield
Ridgefield is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut.
Ridgefield is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut. Situated on the New York state border, Ridgefield had a population of 25,033 as of the 2020 census. The town is part of the Western Connecticut Planning Region. The town center, which was formerly a borough, is defined by the U.S. Census Bureau as a census-designated place. The town was settled then quickly incorporated by 1709.
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Worth seeing in and around Ridgefield
8 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.
- 01Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum is located in Ridgefield, Connecticut. The Aldrich has no permanent collection and is the only museum in Connecticut that is dedicated solely to the exhibition of contemporary art.
3.2 km · museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut · Wikipedia - 02Seth Low Pierrepont State Park Reserve
Seth Low Pierrepont State Park Reserve is a public recreation area covering 305 acres in the town of Ridgefield, Connecticut. The state park offers opportunities for hiking, fishing, and boating.
2.2 km · State park in Connecticut, United States · Wikipedia - 03Bennett's Pond State Park
Bennett's Pond State Park is a public recreation area located in the town of Ridgefield, Connecticut. The state park occupies a portion of the estate once owned by industrialist Louis D. Conley.
3 km · State Park · Wikipedia - 04Frederic Remington House
The Frederic Remington House is a historic house at 36 Oak Knoll Road in Ridgefield, Connecticut. A National Historic Landmark, it was the home of the painter and sculptor Frederic Remington in the last few months of his life.
2.6 km · historic house in Connecticut, United States · Wikipedia - 05Hugh Cain Fulling Mill and Elias Glover Woolen Mill Archeological Site
The Hugh Cain Fulling Mill and Elias Glover Woolen Mill Archeological Site is a 4.4-acre industrial archeological site in the eastern part of Ridgefield, Connecticut. It is the site of an early fulling mill established in 1770, and was an active industrial site until the turn of the 20th century.
3.9 km · archaeological site in Connecticut, United States · Wikipedia - 06Keeler Tavern
The Keeler Tavern is an 18th-century historical building at 152 Main Street in the center of Ridgefield, Connecticut, United States. The property served as summer home to architect Cass Gilbert, who purchased it in 1907 and designed additions to the building as well as a garden.
3.6 km · building in Connecticut, United States · Wikipedia - 07Phineas Chapman Lounsbury House
Lounsbury House, formerly known as Grovelawn and as the Ridgefield Veterans Memorial Community Center, is a historic house at 316 Main Street in Ridgefield, Connecticut. It is a two-story wood frame Classical Revival-style building that was built in 1895.
2.9 km · historic house in Connecticut, United States · Wikipedia - 08Ridgefield Playhouse
The Ridgefield Playhouse is a theater located in Ridgefield, Connecticut, with a capacity of 500. It hosts a variety of entertainment events such as the showing of films, plays and musical performances.
2.8 km · theater in Ridgefield, Connecticut · Wikipedia
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Getting to Ridgefield
- Airports
- LaGuardia (LGA), 66 km · John F. Kennedy (JFK), 78 km · Newark Liberty (EWR), 89 km
- New York → Ridgefield14 km · quickest by road, 41 min · $1.5–2
- Newark → Ridgefield18 km · quickest by road, 40 min · $2–2.5
- Hartford → Ridgefield86 km · quickest by road, 2h 10m · $8–12
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Ridgefield
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 Ridgefield. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundPrivate cars, limos and party buses are also available to charter.
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Next door to Ridgefield
Ridgefield is 59 km from The Bronx, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Ridgefield Center Historic Districthistoric district in Connecticut, United States3.2 km