State Parks and Forests

Explore Connecticut’s

Each location contains trail descriptions and highlights, trail maps, parking links, and available history.

From the tower of Sleeping Giant, to the beaches of Hammonasset, to the falls of Enders State Forest there is diverse scenery and abundant opportunities no matter what part of the state you are in!

For a map of CT state parks and forests scroll to the bottom of the page

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State Parks

Above All Auerfarm Beaver Brook Becket Hill Beckley Furnace
Bennetts Pond Bigelow Hollow Black Rock Bluff Point Bolton Notch
Brainard Homestead Burr Pond Camp Columbia Campbell Falls Capt. George Comer
Chatfield Hollow Collis P. Huntington CT Valley Railroad Dart Island Day Pond
Dennis Hill Devil’s Hopyard Dinosaur Eagle Landing Farm River
Ferry Landing Forster Pond Fort Griswold Fort Trumbull Gardner Lake
Gay City George Dudley Seymour George Waldo Gillette Castle Haddam Island
Haddam Meadows Haley Farm Hammonasset Beach Harkness Haystack Mountain
Higganum Reservoir Hopemead Hopeville Pond Horse Guard Housatonic Meadows
Humaston Brook Hurd Indian Well Ivy Mountain John A. Minetto
Kent Falls Kettletown Killingly Pond Lake Waramaug Lake Williams
Lamentation Mt. Lovers Leap Macedonia Brook Machimoodus Mansfield Hollow
Mashamoquet Brook Mianus River Millers Pond Minnie Island Mohawk Mt.
Mono Pond Mount Bushnell Mount Riga Mount Tom Moween
Nathaniel Lyon Old Furnace Osbornedale Penwood Platt Hill
Pomeroy Putnam Memorial Quaddick Quinebaug Lake Quinnipiac River
River Highlands Rocky Glen Rocky Neck Ross Pond Salt Rock
Satan’s Kingdom Scantic River Seaside Selden Neck Seth Low Pierrepont
Sherwood Island Silver Sands Sleeping Giant Southford Falls Squantz Pond
Stillwater Pond Stoddard Hill Stratton Brook Sunnybrook Sunrise
Sunset Rock Talcott Mountain Tri-Mountain Trout Brook Valley Wadsworth Falls
West Rock Ridge Wharton Brook Whittemore Glen Windsor Meadows Wooster Mountain

State Forests

Algonquin American Legion Camp Columbia Centennial Watershed Cockaponset
Enders Housatonic James L. Goodwin Massacoe Mattatuck
Meshomasic Mohawk Mohegan Nassahegon Natchaug
Nathan Hale Naugatuck Nehantic Nepaug Nipmuck
Nye-Holman Pachaug Paugnut Paugussett Peoples
Pootatuck Quaddick Salmon River Shenipsit The Preserve
Topsmead Tunxis Wyantenock

State Linear Trails

Air Line Trail Farmington Canal Hop River Trail
Larkin Trail Moosup Valley Windsor Locks Canal Trail

Bartlett’s Tower

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133 Mountain Road, Suffield, CT, USA

Bartlett’s Tower Connecticut State Property and Simsbury Town Property 87.8 acres in Bloomfield and Simsbury, CT Parking: Small pull-off near 133 Mountain Rd, Tariffville, CT Trail Map … Read more…

Holbrook Pond

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Holbrook Pond Boat Launch, Hebron, CT, USA

Holbrook Pond Connecticut Boat Launch and State Forest 288 acres in Hebron, CT Parking: Two medium-sized lots down the access road at 142 Gilead St, Hebron, CT…

Topsmead State Forest

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Topsmead State Forest, Litchfield, CT, USA

Topsmead State Forest Connecticut State Forest 615 acres in Litchfield, CT Parking: Large lot near 141 Buell Rd, Litchfield, CT Trail Map        Trails: 6.2…

Nassahegon State Forest

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Nassahegon State Forest, Burlington, CT, USA

Nassahegon State Forest Connecticut State Forest 1,093 acres in Burlington, CT Parking: Small pull-off near 158-498 Stone Rd, Burlington, CT Shoulder parking near 506 George Washington Turnpike,…

Cockaponset: Guilford North

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319 Rte 80, Guilford, CT, USA

Cockaponset: Guilford North Parcel Connecticut State Forest 385.5 acres in Guilford, CT Parking: Large lot near 319 Rte 80, Guilford, CT Trail Map         …

Massacoe: Great Pond Loop

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176 Great Pond Rd, Simsbury, CT, USA

Massacoe: Great Pond Loop Connecticut State Forest 271 acres in Simsbury, CT Parking: Large lot down the dirt road at 176 Great Pond Rd, Simsbury, CT Trail…

Weiss-Loveday Watershed

Unexplored

132 River Rd, Clinton, CT, USA

Weiss-Loveday Watershed Clinton Land Trust and Connecticut State Forest 65.79 acres in Clinton, CT Parking: Small lot near 132 River Rd, Clinton, CT Trail Map     …

Pootatuck State Forest

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230 Pine Hill Rd, New Fairfield, CT, USA

Pootatuck State Forest: Pine Hill Connecticut State Forest 1,103 acres in New Fairfield, CT Parking: Medium sized lot near 230 Pine Hill Rd, New Fairfield, CT Trail…

Lillinonah Trail

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152 Hanover Rd, Newtown, CT, USA

Paugussett State Forest: Lillinonah Trail Blue Blaze Trail and Connecticut State Forest 1048 acres in Newtown, CT Parking: Small pull-off near 158 Hanover Rd, Newtown, CT Medium…

Whitestone Cliffs Trail

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Whitestone Cliffs Trail, Plymouth, CT, USA

Whitestone Cliffs Trail Connecticut Blue Blaze Trail and Connecticut State Forest 310 acres in Plymouth, CT Parking: Small pull-off near 331 Mt Tobe Rd, Plymouth, CT Trail…