
What's with Rowayton? Rowayton is Norwalk's village on the Sound — a Five Mile River harbor of oysters, sailboats, and art that runs its own affairs as the Sixth Taxing District. Forty miles from New York and a world apart, it is the Connecticut shore at its most distilled: a working river mouth, a village center you can walk end to end, and salt water at the bottom of every street.
Roton Point drew steamboats of day-trippers from New York to its shore resort — carousel, coasters, and picnic grove — from the 1880s to WWII.
Why People Visit Rowayton
Rowayton offers the Connecticut shore at its most relaxed and characterful — sailing, art, and quiet beaches in a village that has kept its scale and its salt-water soul. Visitors come for the harbor and the shore parks and stay for the unhurried, distilled village that Norwalk keeps at its edge.