Hamden, West Haven, Milford & Greater New Haven Suburbs

I-95 / I-91 / CT-15 Wilbur Cross / Metro-North New Haven Line

The immediate suburban ring around New Haven. Anchored by Hamden (home to Quinnipiac University, Sleeping Giant State Park, and the Eli Whitney Museum — Whitney invented the cotton gin and interchangeable-parts manufacturing in Hamden), West Haven (home to the University of New Haven and Savin Rock), East Haven (Tweed New Haven Airport), North Haven (Quinnipiac University's York Hill campus and the Quinnipiac River), Woodbridge (an affluent inland suburb), Orange (home to Pez Candy USA headquarters and the Pez Visitor Center), Bethany (rural/wooded), and Milford (a coastal city with a historic walkable downtown, Silver Sands State Park, and the Connecticut Post Mall — one of the largest shopping malls in Connecticut).