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template: byway.jade
id: "2452"
name: Merritt Parkway
distance: "37"
duration: Allow one hour to drive the byway.
description: "Set in natural surroundings, Merritt Parkway's significant design brilliantly integrates the craft of the engineer and the artist. The bridges along the route are excellent examples of Art Deco, or Art Moderne, styles of the 1920s and 1930s. Magnificent foliage abounds in both spring and fall."
contact: "**[CT Commission on Culture & Tourism](http://www.ctvisit.com)**  \r\n 860-256-2800  \r\n 888-CTVISIT  \r\n\r\n"
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websites: 
  - url: "http://www.merrittparkway.org/"
    name: Merritt Parkway Conservancy
  - url: "http://www.norwalk.com/"
    name: Norwalk Connecticut
  - url: "http://www.fws.gov/refuges/profiles/index.cfm?id=53546"
    name: Stewart B. McKinney National Wildlife Refuge
  - url: "http://www.ctvisit.com/"
    name: "Visit Connecticut - State Office of Tourism Official Site"
designations: 
  - National Scenic Byway
states: 
  - CT
ll: 
  - -73.67548399999993
  - 41.03673199999997
bounds: 
  - - -73.67548399999993
    - 41.03673199999997
  - - -73.091306
    - 41.246349

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Set in natural surroundings, Merritt Parkway's significant design brilliantly integrates the craft of the engineer and the artist. The bridges along the route are excellent examples of Art Deco, or Art Moderne, styles of the 1920s and 1930s. Magnificent foliage abounds in both spring and fall.