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

Cockaponset: Pattaconk Reservoir

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Pattaconk Recreation Area (Cockaponset State Forest), State Forest Road, Chester, CT, USA

Cockaponset State Forest: Pattaconk Reservoir Connecticut State Forest acres in Chester and Haddam, CT Parking: South (Cockaponset Trail): Small pull-off near 1 Sypher Rd, Chester, CT South… Read more…

Mattatuck: Leatherman Cave

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Old Leatherman Cave Trailhead, U.S. 6, Watertown, CT, USA

Mattatuck: Leatherman Cave (Rock House) & Jericho Trail Connecticut State Forest 945 acres in Watertown, CT Parking: Alternate Parking at Black Rock State Park North End: Shoulder… Read more…

Pachaug: Mt Misery & Rhododendron Sanctuary

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Chapman Campground, Voluntown, CT, USA

Pachaug State Forest: Chapman Area Mt. Misery & Rhododendron Sanctuary Connecticut State Forest acres in Voluntown, CT Parking: Small lot near Cutoff Rd, Voluntown, CT Trail Map … Read more…

Overbrook Trail

Unexplored

41 Overbrook Rd, Madison, CT, USA

Overbrook Trail Madison Land Trust and Connecticut State Forest 54.71 acres in Madison, CT (21.71 land trust and 33 state) Parking: Small pull-off near 41 Overbrook Rd,…

Neck River Trail

Unexplored

201 Opening Hill Rd, Madison, CT, USA

Neck River Trail Madison Land Trust and Connecticut State Forest 79.85 acres in Madison, CT (12.85 land trust and 67 state property) Parking: Small pull-off near 201…

Jefferson Park

Unexplored

70 Jefferson Park Rd, Madison, CT, USA

Jefferson Park and Oil Mill Brook Madison Land Trust and Connecticut State Forest 194.8 acres in Madison, CT Parking: Cul-de-sac near 70 Jefferson Park Rd, Madison, CT…

Wangunk Meadows WMA

Unexplored

1346 Tryon St, South Glastonbury, CT

Wangunk Meadows Wildlife Management Area Connecticut Wildlife Management Area 637 acres in Portland, CT Parking: Small lot near 1346 Tryon St, South Glastonbury, CT Property Map   …

Coventry Lake Boat Launch

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30 Cross Street, Coventry, CT, USA

Coventry Lake Connecticut State Boat Launch 1 acre in Coventry, CT Parking: Medium sized lot near 30 Cross St, Coventry, CT Trail Map       Trails: No…

Shenipsit Trail: North Terminus

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24 Greaves Rd, Stafford Springs, CT 06076, USA

Shenipsit Trail: North Terminus Connecticut State Forest and Blue Blaze Trail 716 acres in Somers and Stafford, CT Parking: North Parking: Shoulder parking near 24 Greaves Rd,…

Mahoney Pond

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Under the Mountain Road, North Franklin, CT, USA

Franklin Swamp WMA: Mahoney Pond Connecticut Wildlife Management Area 50 acres in Franklin, CT Parking: Tiny pull off on Under the Mountain Rd, Franklin, CT Trail Map        Trails: 1.5… Read more…