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

Farm River State Park

★★☆☆☆

150 Short Beach Road, East Haven, CT, USA

Farm River State Park Connecticut State Park 62 acres in East Haven, CT Parking: For hiking there is a small lot near 150 Short Beach Rd, East…

Eagle Landing State Park

★☆☆☆☆

41.449621, -72.465022

Eagle Landing State Park Connecticut State Park 16 acres in Haddam, CT Parking: Large lot near 14 Little Meadow Rd, Haddam, CT Park Map       …

Dart Island State Park

Unexplored

41.552445, -72.561355

Dart Island State Park Connecticut State Park / Scenic Reserve 19 acres in Middletown, CT Parking: Accessible from the water only Trail Map       Trails: Unknown …

Dennis Hill State Park

★★★☆☆

41.948573, -73.199360

Dennis Hill State Park Connecticut State Park 240 acres in Norfolk, CT Parking: Seasonal parking 2-3 cars off Rt. 272 (more parking available in-season when the gates…

Connecticut Valley Railroad State Park

Unexplored

41.350457, -72.405295

Connecticut Valley Railroad State Park Connecticut State Park 136 acres in Essex, CT Parking: Medium sized lot near 1 Railroad Ave, Essex, CT Park Map     …

Chatfield Hollow State Park

★★★★☆

41.365949, -72.585291

Chatfield Hollow State Park Connecticut State Park 412 acres in Killingworth, CT Parking: Lots near 381 CT-80, Killingworth, CT Trail Map         Trails: 5 miles …

Burr Pond State Park

★★★☆☆

41.870437, -73.093909

Burr Pond State Park Connecticut State Park 438 acres in Torrington, CT Parking: Small lot near 384 Burr Mountain Rd, Torrington, CT Trail Map       …

Becket Hill State Park

Unexplored

41.379399, -72.305519

Becket Hill State Park Connecticut State Park / Scenic Reserve 260 acres in Lyme, CT Parking: At boat launch for Uncas Pond on Keeny Rd Trail Map …

Brainard Homestead State Park

★☆☆☆☆

41.466588, -72.462986

Brainard Homestead State Park Connecticut State Park / Scenic Reserve 25 acres in East Haddam, CT Parking: Shoulder parking near 76 Creek Row East Haddam, CT Trail…

Bluff Point State Park

★★★☆☆

55 Depot Rd, Groton, CT, USA

Bluff Point State Park Connecticut State Park 806 acres in Groton, CT Parking: Large lot near 55 Depot Rd, Groton, CT Trail Map         …