[1] The town is primarily known for agriculture and for other points of interest including Lake Gaillard and Northford Ice Pavilion.

The town has the neighborhoods of Totoket, Wood Chase, Sea Hill, Twin Lakes, Ashley Park, and Doral Farms.

Its success along with the inventiveness of his six sons—who devised a range of machines to produce such things as screws, embossed silk, pins, and horseshoe nails—saw the rise of new manufactures along the town's Farm River.

By the early 1900s, North Branford's abundant supply of trap rock, a material used for making roadways, made quarrying a growth industry.

Totoket Mountain contains Lake Gaillard, a reservoir, formed in 1926, managed by the South Central Connecticut Regional Water Authority (SCCRWA).

The SCCRWA maintains a network of hiking trails on Totoket Mountain in the Big Gulph area of Northford.

Totoket Mountain, 720 feet high, is the highest point of the town in the Northford neighborhood.

In mid- 2010, the decision was made to rearrange grades and close the Stanley T. Williams elementary school in Northford.

Founded in 1958 as the Northford Historical Institute, the society runs four historic buildings in town: the Reynolds Beers House (the main museum and office), the Miller Barn, the "Little White Gas Station", and the Little Red Schoolhouse.