Region

Northwest Corner, Kent, and Cornwall

Northwest Corner, Kent, and Cornwall are a scenic visitor lane for hikes, covered bridges, waterfalls, country inns, galleries, leaf season, and New York/Berkshires crossover trips.

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Wooded trail and waterfall at Kent Falls State Park in Kent, Connecticut — Kent FallsRegional context image for Northwest Corner, Kent, waterfalls, hikes, and leaf-season planning.Photo by Jllm06 on Wikimedia Commons, cropped - CC BY-SA 4.0

Visitor map

Northwest Corner, Kent, and Cornwall in the Connecticut visitor roster

Use the statewide map to compare this lane against nearby coast, hill, river, rail, and casino/coast choices.

Connecticut visitor lanes

1 Mystic / Stonington Seaport, aquarium, village, seafood, Rhode Island border, and casino add-ons. 2 Litchfield Hills Hill towns, inns, foliage, antiques, farms, hikes, and car-first weekends. 3 River Valley Essex, Old Saybrook, Chester, river towns, boats, rail, inns, and antiques. 4 Guilford / Madison Central-coast beaches, village greens, seafood, family stays, and coastal drives. 5 New Haven / Yale Yale, museums, pizza, rail arrival, downtown stays, and shoreline add-ons. 6 Fairfield Coast Westport, Fairfield, Norwalk, beaches, restaurants, Metro-North, and NYC-adjacent weekends. 7 Kent / Cornwall Hikes, covered bridges, waterfalls, country inns, galleries, and leaf season. 8 Casinos / Coast Foxwoods, Mohegan Sun, coastal add-ons, late-night stays, and car-first routing.

Neighboring guide context

MA Massachusetts Boston, Cape, Berkshires, and central Massachusetts add-ons. RI Rhode Island Providence, Newport, South County, Block Island, and T.F. Green planning. NY New York NYC, Hudson Valley, rail pairings, and west-of-Connecticut trip add-ons.

Northwest Corner, Kent, and Cornwall visitor-region map Compare this visitor region with nearby Connecticut coast, hill, river, rail, and casino lanes.

Planning categories

Checked category lanes

Category Stays 1 checked visitor places: The Falls Village Inn

Category Dining Held for more local review before additional place records are added.

Category Experiences 5 checked visitor places: Campbell Falls State Park Reserve, Housatonic Meadows State Park, Kent Falls State Park

Checked visitor places

Checked places in this lane

Waterfall state park reserve Campbell Falls State Park Reserve Official Connecticut DEEP waterfall reserve in Norfolk, useful for Northwest Corner visitors who want a short scenic hike and a quieter alternative to Kent Falls.

State park Housatonic Meadows State Park Housatonic River state park and campground lane, useful when Northwest Corner planning needs fishing, camping, river scenery, and Route 7 movement rather than only town browsing.

State park Kent Falls State Park Official Connecticut DEEP state-park anchor for the Northwest Corner and Litchfield Hills lane, best used as a car-first scenic stop rather than a standalone city page.

State park Macedonia Brook State Park Kent-area state park with hiking, camping, and mountain-ridge scenery, useful as the Northwest Corner outdoor anchor when Kent Falls alone is too short for the trip.

Historic country inn and tavern The Falls Village Inn Falls Village country inn and tavern that gives the Northwest Corner a practical overnight and dinner base near Great Falls, Lime Rock Park, Housatonic River, Salisbury, Kent, and Cornwall drives.

Historic bridge West Cornwall Covered Bridge Historic covered bridge over the Housatonic River, useful as a compact Northwest Corner photo-and-drive anchor between Kent, Cornwall, river roads, and hill-town stops.