If you're among the thousands of people planning a trip to Hammonasset State Park this weekend, you may not find room in your favorite parking lot.
At Meigs Point at Hammonasset, work on the new nature center takes up maybe a quarter of the normal lot. Workers building a new pavilion at West Beach have fenced off an old parking lot – but the park has a solution.
Between the road to West Beach and the campground at Hammonasset, all spaces reserved 11 months in advance, the park has set up enough parking on the field to cover most of what it's given up to construction.
"At West Beach, we've accommodated the parking that's being done down there with some field parking so we should be able to fit everybody in," said Jack Hine, the park supervisor.
Hine said the staff will be "smiling and ready" for the Independence Day weekend when the gates open at 8 a.m. Friday.
