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

Bennett’s Pond State Park

Unexplored

41.329351, -73.480618

Bennett’s Pond State Park Connecticut State Park 460 acres in Ridgefield, CT Parking: Small lot near 550-698 Bennetts Farm Rd, Ridgefield, CT Trail Map      Trails:…

Beckley Furnace State Park

Unexplored

42.010874, -73.292397

Beckley Furnace State Park Connecticut State Park 12 acres in North Canaan, CT Parking: Small lot near 140 Lower Rd, East Canaan, CT Trail Map     …

Auerfarm State Park

★★☆☆☆

41.814364, -72.767321

Auerfarm State Park / 4-H Education Center at Auerfarm Connecticut State Park / Scenic Reserve 40 acres in Bloomfield, CT Parking: Small lot near 50 Auer Farm…

Southford Falls

★★★☆☆

41.458784, -73.163979

Southford Falls State Park Connecticut State Park 169 acres in Southbury and Oxford, CT Parking: Large lot near 175 Quaker Farms Rd, Southbury, CT Trail Map   …

Billings Lake

Unexplored

41.508947, -71.874691

Billings Lake Connecticut State Forest and Water Access 40 acres in North Stonington, CT Parking: Small lot near 100 Billings Lake Road, North Stonington, CT Trail Map …

River Highlands State Park

★★★☆☆

41.619244, -72.630702

River Highlands State Park Connecticut State Park 177 acres in Cromwell, CT Parking: Medium sized lot near 115 Field Rd Cromwell, CT Trail Map      Trails: 8…

Nayantaquit Trail

★★★☆☆

41.395990, -72.307044

Nehantic State Forest: Nayantaquit Trail Connecticut State Forest and Blue Blaze Trail 1,667 acres in Lyme, CT Parking: Large lot near Keeny Rd, Lyme, CT Trail Map … Read more…

Natchaug State Forest: Perry Hill

★★☆☆☆

41.880034, -72.194366

Natchaug State Forest: Perry Hill Connecticut State Forest and Blue Blaze Trail in Ashford, CT Parking: North end – Shoulder parking near 68-198 Oakes Rd Ashford, CT… Read more…

Stoddard Hill State Park

★★☆☆☆

41.460391, -72.065988

Stoddard Hill State Park Connecticut State Park 55 acres in Ledyard, CT Parking: Medium lot near 1917 CT-12, Gales Ferry, CT Trail Map       Trails: Less…