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

Hammonasset Beach State Park

★★★★★

1288 Boston Post Rd, Madison, CT, USA

Hammonasset Beach State Park Connecticut State Park 919 acres in Madison, CT Parking: Large lots near 1288 Boston Post Rd, Madison, CT Trail Map       …

Haley Farm State Park

★★★☆☆

41.332090, -72.006833

Haley Farm State Park Connecticut State Park 267 acres in Groton, CT Parking: Medium sized lot near 24 Haley Farm Ln, Groton, CT Trail Map     …

Haddam Meadows State Park

★★☆☆☆

41.481174, -72.510483

Haddam Meadows State Park Connecticut State Park 175 acres in Haddam, CT Parking: Several lots near 20 Parmelee Rd, Haddam, CT Trail Map         …

Gillette Castle State Park

★★★★☆

41.427069, -72.429423

Gillette Castle State Park Connecticut State Park 122 acres in East Haddam, CT Parking: Large lot near 67 River Rd, East Haddam, CT Trail Map      …

Forster Pond State Park

★★★☆☆

41.360061, -72.584043

Forster Pond State Park Connecticut State Park 148 acres in Killingworth, CT Parking: Small lot near 360 CT-80, Killingworth, CT Trail Map       Trails: Less than…

Ferry Landing State Park

★★☆☆☆

41.311537, -72.346463

Ferry Landing State Park Connecticut State Park 1 acre in Old Lyme, CT Parking: Small lot near 398 Ferry Rd, Old Lyme, CT Trail Map     …

Captain George Comer Memorial State Park

★★☆☆☆

41.470236, -72.407336

Captain George Comer Memorial State Park / Harris Reserve Connecticut State Park / East Haddam Land Trust 1.8 acres in East Haddam, CT Parking: Small lot near…

Lake Waramaug State Park

Unexplored

41.705500, -73.382452

Lake Waramaug State Park Connecticut State Park 95 acres in Kent, CT Parking: Medium lot at 30 Lake Waramaug Rd, Kent, CT Camping Map       …

Kettletown State Park

★★★☆☆

41.424802, -73.208132

Kettletown State Park Connecticut State Park 605 acres in Oxford and Southbury, CT Parking: Several small lots at 1400 Georges Hill Rd, Southbury, CT Trail Map     …

Kent Falls State Park

★★★★☆

462 Kent Cornwall Rd, Kent, CT, USA

Kent Falls State Park Connecticut State Park 307 acres in Kent, CT Parking: Large lot for about 100 cars at 462 Kent Cornwall Rd, Kent, CT Trail…