I have some pics of rocks from Lyme Connecticut one of them looks like the rock was molten or at leastveryhot

Judges Cave is a glacier erratic, meaning it rode in on a glacier and was left there when the glacier receded. OP west rock is probably your best bet, and the two parks are some of the best examples of “trap rock”

Pretty sure West Rock also has some sort of geological remnants of glaciers in the area. I don't remember exactly what to look for to spot that, but I feel like OP will.

Check around the beach at Bradley Point in West Haven, between SeaBluff beach and Savin Rock.

Seabury hill are amazing. Highly recommend Melanie Gunn. She got me a great rental two years ago and I just closed on my first house with her a week ago.

I would be into these suggestions, lol

But also leave no trace. Don’t come harvest our rocks, we like to share our nature and leave it beautiful for all

I’ve heard good things about Seabury Hill realtors.

Totally makes sense and I get it. but I still have to tease them for Reasons

Will you have access to a car. There’s a hike that’s part of the NET that goes through the mica ledges and the view and rocks are beautiful just massive chunks of mica and quartz

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The most distinct rock of the New Haven area is the trap rock at East Rock, West Rock and Sleeping Giant. Elsewhere in the state, Portland is known for its brownstone, and Stony Creek is known for it's pink granite

I could suggest some great Branford trails, just shoot me a message

Take nothing but memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Fort Hale park

West Rock is best rock

I used to live in Las Vegas. Most of the kids who went to college went to UNLV (4 yr) or the College of Southern Nevada (2 yr) or both.

Most of the kids were happy to stay where they grew up and went to college and it's got lots of jobs in the areas the colleges focus on (the colleges specialize in fields that have high local demand). It's really, really not surprising.

Yale imports students. Some stay, but they don't really have close ties to the area in the first place and the job market isn't especially enticing.

Stony Creek (Branford)

>Stony Creek is a coastal village located the southeastern section of Branford, Connecticut, centered on a harbor on Long Island Sound. Stony Creek has the ambiance of a small seaside village which retains its roots as a summer vacation location with old Victorian hotels and a working granite quarry. It is known for the Thimble Islands an archipelago of glacial rocks, ranging from 17 acres (6. 9 ha) down to stepping-stone size, at the harbor's mouth.

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You could also check out [Stony Creek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stony_Creek_(Branford%29). You know the pink granite making up the base of the Statue of Liberty? It came from there.

It is a working quarry so you probably could not find a big piece to take home, but maybe there's a small one somewhere. It's worth seeing at the very least if you're the least bit interested in rocks.

Almandite garnet and olivine/peridot. Pink granite in Branford.

Welcome to rock city, baby

CT is known for almondine garnet. You can see garnets along the CT garnet trail in Glastonbury, but it's illegal to harvest garnets from that area. If you go to hammonasett beach ~30 min east of new haven, there's chances to find garnet sand along certain portions of beach, especially Webster point.

I would ask in r/Connecticut

Any of the beaches 👍👍

Check out chapel street, mad rocks.