Golf in Ellington

Ellington is a Tolland County town in the northern Hartford corridor known for the Ellington Agricultural Center—one of Connecticut's state agricultural schools—and for the tobacco farming tradition of the Connecticut River valley's northern tributaries. Ellington Ridge Country Club provides the community with private golf in a landscape whose agricultural heritage and rural residential character distinguish it from the more urbanized Hartford suburban communities to the south. Ellington's position along Route 83 in the agricultural corridor between Vernon and Stafford gives it a practical community character oriented toward the farming and local commerce that have sustained the northern Tolland County communities through Connecticut's long transition from agricultural to industrial to post-industrial economy.