Downtown Hartford Travel Guide

Tourist Guide

Connecticut Science Center featuring a garden
Connecticut Science Center featuring a garden
Bushnell Park featuring a garden
Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts featuring theatre scenes and interior views
Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts which includes street scenes and theatre scenes

Popular places to visit

Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts which includes interior views

Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

While seeing a play or concert in Hartford’s historic venue, look up to admire one of the largest ceiling murals in the United States.

Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts
Connecticut Science Center which includes interior views as well as children

Connecticut Science Center

Leave your textbooks at home and learn about science by playing, exploring and inventing your way through this interactive science center in Hartford.

Connecticut Science Center
Bushnell Park showing a castle, heritage architecture and a garden

Bushnell Park

Relax near the pond or take a ride on the antique carousel at one of America’s oldest publicly funded parks, located in the heart of Hartford.

Bushnell Park
The Wadsworth Atheneum is an art museum located in Hartford, Connecticut.

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

You can browse the exhibits at Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, a museum with a story of its own, during your travels to Hartford. Experience the area's great live music and entertainment choices.

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
State capital of Hartford skyline, Hartford, Connecticut'

Connecticut State Capital

After visiting Connecticut State Capital, make a plan to see the other sights and activities in Hartford. Experience the area's entertainment choices or attend a sporting event.

Connecticut State Capital
Trinity Church on the Green in New Haven - Connecticut, United States

Trinity College

Take a campus tour or just explore the area of Trinity College during your travels in Hartford. Experience the area's entertainment choices and acclaimed theatre scene.

Trinity College

Activities

A Remarkable Bar Hunt: Hartford Party

A Remarkable Bar Hunt: Hartford Party

AU$18
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A Remarkable Bar Hunt: Hartford Party
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Our pick of the best Downtown Hartford Hotel Deals

The Capitol Hotel

The Capitol Hotel

3 out of 5
440 Asylum St Hartford CT
The price is AU$137 per night from 1 Mar to 2 Mar
AU$137
1 Mar - 2 Mar
includes taxes & fees
Stay at this business-friendly hotel in Hartford. Enjoy free breakfast, free Wi-Fi and a 24-hour fitness centre. Our guests praise the breakfast and the helpful ...
7.6/10 Good! (1,183 reviews)
Room was kind of dirty (brown liquid on the wall/curtain/floor), path to garage was not plowed

Reviewed on 23 Feb 2026

The Capitol Hotel
The Goodwin Hotel

The Goodwin Hotel

3.5 out of 5
1 Haynes St Hartford CT
The price is AU$330 per night from 1 Mar to 2 Mar
AU$330
1 Mar - 2 Mar
includes taxes & fees
Stay at this hotel in Hartford. Enjoy free Wi-Fi, a 24-hour fitness centre and a 24-hour front desk. Our guests praise the helpful staff and the clean rooms ...
9/10 Wonderful! (1,001 reviews)
Good staff, great old building well-maintained

Reviewed on 25 Feb 2026

The Goodwin Hotel
DoubleTree by Hilton Hartford Downtown

DoubleTree by Hilton Hartford Downtown

4 out of 5
315 Trumbull St Hartford CT
The price is AU$252 per night from 19 Mar to 20 Mar
AU$252
19 Mar - 20 Mar
includes taxes & fees
Stay at this business-friendly hotel in Hartford. Enjoy free Wi-Fi, breakfast (surcharge) and a 24-hour fitness centre. Our guests praise the clean rooms in ...
7.6/10 Good! (1,001 reviews)
Clean easy and kind people

Reviewed on 17 Feb 2026

DoubleTree by Hilton Hartford Downtown
Candlewood Suites Hartford Downtown by IHG

Candlewood Suites Hartford Downtown by IHG

2.5 out of 5
370 Market Street Hartford CT
Fully refundable
The price is AU$191 per night from 26 Mar to 27 Mar
AU$191
26 Mar - 27 Mar
includes taxes & fees
Stay at this business-friendly hotel in Hartford. Enjoy free Wi-Fi, free parking and a fitness centre. Our guests praise the helpful staff and the clean rooms ...
8/10 Very Good! (940 reviews)
Clean and nice.

Reviewed on 19 Feb 2026

Candlewood Suites Hartford Downtown by IHG
Marriott Hartford Downtown

Marriott Hartford Downtown

4 out of 5
200 Columbus Boulevard Hartford CT
The price is AU$471 per night from 27 Feb to 28 Feb
AU$471
27 Feb - 28 Feb
includes taxes & fees
Stay at this spa hotel in Hartford. Enjoy free Wi-Fi, a full-service spa and 2 restaurants. Popular attractions Connecticut Science Center and Mortensen Riverfront ...
8.8/10 Excellent! (747 reviews)
Excellent service, went above and beyond to accommodate. Great facility great experience

Reviewed on 24 Feb 2026

Marriott Hartford Downtown
Residence Inn by Marriott Hartford Downtown

Residence Inn by Marriott Hartford Downtown

3.5 out of 5
942 Main St Hartford CT
The price is AU$262 per night from 20 Mar to 21 Mar
AU$262
20 Mar - 21 Mar
includes taxes & fees
Stay at this business-friendly hotel in Hartford. Enjoy free breakfast, free Wi-Fi and room service. Our guests praise the helpful staff in their reviews. Popular ...
8.6/10 Excellent! (471 reviews)
Great stay

Reviewed on 25 Feb 2026

Residence Inn by Marriott Hartford Downtown
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Other neighbourhoods around Downtown Hartford

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Clay-Arsenal

Clay-Arsenal might not have many top sights, but Dunkin' Donuts Park and Xfinity Theatre are two attractions nearby that you can check out.

Clay-Arsenal
Underneath that blue dome lies the east armory of a factory once owned by a man who changed American history, the innovator of the revolver, Samuel Colt. Sprawling around the crumbling red brickwork of the old Colt’s Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company, once the largest private armory in the world, are the remnants of Coltsville, the utopian village he built for his workers. A model of 19th century industrial paternalism, Coltsville included a church, a social hall for dances and lectures, workers’ housing, a giant landscaped park home to deer and peacocks, sculpted botanical gardens, and thousands of feet of greenhouses filled with tropical fruit and flowers. Samuel Colt felt such responsibility for the welfare of his workers outside the factory that he went so far as to build Potsdam Village, to replicate the feel of the German village from which he imported his skilled craftsmen to work in his willow ware factory. The National Park Service began having on-site presence in 2015, with workshops and tours, including up into the Blue Onion Dome which affords magnificent views of downtown Hartford, the Connecticut River and Colt Park, formerly the back yard of Armsmear, Samuel & Elizabeth Colt’s mansion. By 2016, an NPS ranger had taken up residence in the South Armory and was giving walking tours of Coltsville. The old South, East and North armories are under renovation and the two 1855 brownstone buildings, the oldest structures on site, will become the National Park Service Visitor Center. The armories themselves have been or are being renovated into apartments, offices and education facilities.

Sheldon-Charter Oak

While visiting Sheldon-Charter Oak, you might make a stop by sights like Connecticut River and Charter Oak Tree Memorial.

Sheldon-Charter Oak
Dramatic cloudscape and autumn landscape over Connecticut State Capital building in Bushnell Park in Hartford, Connecticut

South Green

While there might not be top attractions in South Green, you can explore the larger area and discover places like Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts and Hartford City Hall.

South Green
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Sigourney Square Historic District

Though Sigourney Square Historic District may not have many top sights, you can venture to the surrounding area to see attractions like Harriet Beecher Stowe Center and Mark Twain House & Museum.

Sigourney Square Historic District
Mark Twain's House, Hartford, CT. Apparently, Hartford was his favorite city!

Asylum Hill

You'll enjoy the museums and churches in Asylum Hill. You might want to make time for a stop at Harriet Beecher Stowe Center or Mark Twain House & Museum.

Asylum Hill
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Frog Hollow

If you're looking for some top things to see and do in Frog Hollow and surrounding area, you can visit Connecticut State Capital and Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts.

Frog Hollow

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