Two great green spaces fixed that summer character in place. Rocky Neck State Park spreads more than seven hundred acres along the Sound, with a wide sandy beach, a tidal salt marsh, and a landmark stone-and-timber pavilion built by WPA and CCC crews in the 1930s — one of the finest pieces of public architecture on the Connecticut shore. Inland, Nehantic State Forest, set aside in 1925, was the first state forest in New London County. And along the water in Niantic, the mile-long Niantic Bay Boardwalk, opened in 2005, traces the shore past the old railroad line, with the Sound on one side and the bay on the other.
East Lyme is two villages on Niantic Bay, where the scallop boats and the salt marsh meet the Sound — a quiet stretch of Connecticut shoreline with a 1660 saltbox, a WPA-built park pavilion, and a mile of boardwalk along the water. Our East Lyme designs gather that into wearable form. Wear the shoreline. Wear the scallop and the Sound.
Why People Visit East Lyme
East Lyme rewards visitors who want the Connecticut shoreline at its most easygoing — a sandy state-park beach, a waterfront boardwalk, and a village built on the bay. People come for Rocky Neck and the Niantic Bay Boardwalk, for the colonial Thomas Lee House, and for a simple, scenic shoreline day where beach-cottage summers and quiet New England history sit a short walk apart.
