The Sandy Hook Permanent Memorial provides a place for the public to visit to reflect on those lost.

It is also, as the commission noted on its final Facebook post one year ago, a place to feel “a hope for the future.”

Opened during a private ceremony on November 12, 2022, and to the public the following day, the memorial is at 32 Riverside Road. A granite marker with the words Sandy Hook Permanent Memorial marks its entrance, which carries visitors south over a short driveway from Riverside before they reach a small parking lot with room for approximately 20 vehicles.

The parking lot offers a look over the memorial, which is set down a hill and accessed from a gently sloping path from the western side of the parking lot.

It is, as a sign notes for those arriving, a place for reverence and quiet reflection.

Managing Editor Shannon Hicks visited the memorial during the first 12 months the property has been open, capturing the photos shared here. We offer them as we join readers on this, the eleventh anniversary of 12/14.