Heroes Tunnel and the History Beneath West Rock #connecticut #heroestunnel #wilburcrossparkway Connecticut’s Heroes Tunnel passes through far more than West Rock. Before highways, the ridge above served as a Native American hunting ground, still littered with arrowheads. When the Wilbur Cross Parkway reached the ridge in the 1930s, engineers blasted straight through it, opening the tunnel in 1949. Today, more than 70,000 vehicles travel daily beneath volcanic rock formed nearly 200 million years