This city also has a rich fishing tradition, specializing in shellfish, with culinary favorite the lobster roll invented right here in town back in the 1920s. Milford still supports a commercial clamming fleet to this day, while city seafood traditions are maintained during the annual Milford Oyster Festival, a fiesta that includes food stands, boat races and music. Set off from here to enjoy your own offshore fishing trips, zip past beautiful beaches in your motorboat, or explore the nearby Connecticut Audubon Society Coastal Center, an estuarine wildlife refuge famed for its grassy dunes and diverse birdlife, including piping plovers, peregrine falcons and snowy owls.
Milford Harbor’s natural protection from the sea means that it also doubles as a vast mooring field, while there’s also a public boat-ramp in town for those who want to get straight out on the water. If you require something a little more specialized then there a range of full-service marinas located in the city. Lining the banks of the Harbor you will find the exclusive 68-slip Milford Yacht Club, the 92-slip Safe Harbor Port Milford, the 140-slip Spencer’s Marina and the Milford Harbor Marina, the most prominent in town with 135 wet-slips for boats up to 250-feet in length. Also on offer near downtown Milford are the Milford Boat Works, a large marina with extensive dry storage and boat repair services, and the publicly owned Lisman Landing Marina, a 35-slip bolthole and a good option for the budget-conscious. As you make your way south out of the harbor and toward the Sound keep your eyes peeled for the Simon Lake Submersible, a scuttled historic submarine from the 1930’s that acts as local icon, river obstacle and impromptu tide marker.
Along the Housatonic River that demarcates the western edge of Milford there are a couple of other marinas, with the Caswell Cove Marina offering 70 slips in a large protected marina and the Valley Yacht Club featuring dozens of floating wet-slips, club-house amenities and even an on-site brewery. There’s a host of popular races and regattas held in Milford year-round, including the Arms-White Regatta and the Columbus Day Regatta, while the Viper 640 Long Island Sound Open is sometimes operated out of the Milford Yacht Club.
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