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| Inlet of the Park River Tunnel, the entrance to underground Hartford, near Pope Park. There is another large entrance to this system near the Mark Twain House. This tunnel empties into the Connecticut River after flowing 5 miles below downtown Hartford. Although constructed in the 1940s, there is a side-passage under the Armory in Bushnell Park through which some really old tunnels can be accessed, branching like the subterranean equivalent of the Charter Oak. Don't worry too much about the graffiti, because the gang-bangers haven't got the guts to go much beyond the entrance, and their silly doodlings die off just a few hundred feet in. The Park River offers the best draining in Connecticut, take it from me as I've investigated many cities in Connecticut, and they're not much for readily accessible tunnels, although New London has a fairly good-sized one that you can enter down by the old Winthrop House. |