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

Lake Williams State Park

★★☆☆☆

41.629718, -72.301327

Lake Williams State Park Connecticut State Park in Lebanon, CT Parking: Small lot near 1644 Exeter Rd, Lebanon, CT Trail Map          Trails: Less…

Salt Rock State Campground

★★☆☆☆

41.640380, -72.094430

Salt Rock State Campground Connecticut State Campground 149 acres in Sprague, CT Parking: Small lot near 173 Scotland Rd, Baltic, CT Camping Map       Trails: 1 mile …

Rocky Glen State Park

★★★☆☆

29 Dayton St, Sandy Hook, CT, USA

Rocky Glen State Park Connecticut State Park 46 acres in Newtown, CT Parking: Small lot near 29 Dayton St, Sandy Hook, CT Trail Map       …

Wharton Brook State Park

★★★☆☆

41.425054, -72.837532

Wharton Brook State Park Connecticut State Park 96 acres in North Haven and Wallingford, CT Parking: A couple lots near 675 US-5, North Haven, CT Trail Map …

Nathaniel Lyon Memorial State Park

★★☆☆☆

41.847478, -72.083341

Nathaniel Lyon Memorial State Park Connecticut State Park 5 acres in Eastford, CT Parking:  Small lot along Kingsbury Rd Eastford, CT Trail Map        Trails:…

Macedonia Brook State Park

★★★★☆

159 Macedonia Brook Rd, Kent, CT, USA

Macedonia Brook State Park Connecticut State Park 2,300 acres in Kent, CT Parking: Small lot near 159 Macedonia Brook Rd, Kent, CT Trail Map       …

John Minetto State Park

Unexplored

41.883625, -73.169530

John A. Minetto State Park Connecticut State Park 715 acres in Goshen and Torrington, CT Parking: Seasonal parking near CT-272, Torrington, CT Trail Map        Trails:…

Indian Well State Park

★★★★☆

41.342002, -73.124122

Indian Well State Park Connecticut State Park 153 acres in Shelton, CT Parking: Large lot near 1 Indian Well Rd, Shelton, CT and alternate/seasonal along the same… Read more…

Housatonic Meadows State Park

Unexplored

41.837385, -73.379377

Housatonic Meadows State Park Connecticut State Park 451 acres in Sharon, CT Parking: Small lot near 90 US-7, Sharon, CT Trail Map         Trails:…

Harkness State Park

★★★☆☆

41.301409, -72.114662

Harkness Memorial State Park Connecticut State Park 116 acres in Waterford, CT Parking: Large lot near 275 Great Neck Rd, Waterford, CT Trail Map        …