Plein Air On Location – Wayside Inn and Gristmill in Sudbury

Plein Aire at Longfellow’s Wayside Inn, 72 Wayside Inn Rd, Sudbury, MA

Thursday October 14th, 11 AM – 1:30.

Park in the dirt lot directly across from the Inn, to the left of the red barn.  

We will meet just outside the Inn’s front door.

There is a bathroom at the back of the Inn.

The Wayside Inn is a lovely and historic complex spread out over several acres. There is the Inn itself dating back to the 1700s which is open to the public (fun period rooms upstairs and restaurant downstairs), a small formal garden to the right of the Inn and a pond in behind. A short (3 minute) walk away is the much photographed Grist Mill and a larger picturesque pond (in behind), the little red school house and the Martha Mary chapel, a white steepled little church straight out of a Norman Rockwell painting.  You can walk to the Mill site, or drive and park. 

Directions: Take Route 20 to Wayside Inn Road, which is marked by green signs in both directions. Coming from the West you will use the jug handle at the traffic light to make a left onto Wayside Inn Road. Then you will pass the Grist Mill and Chapel first and the Inn parking lot is further down on the right. Coming from the East you will see Wayside Inn Road fork off to the right and you will see the Inn first, parking lot on your left.