Explore Guilford, CT

Town Parks

• • Bittner Park
  • Braemore Preserve
  • Chaffinch Island
  • Chittenden Park
  • East River Preserve
  • James Valley
  • Nut Plains Park
  • Timberland Preserve

Land Trust

• • Guilford Land Trust
    • Big Maple
    • Bluff Head / Northwoods
    • Broomstick Ledges
    • County Road Fields
    • Dudley-Barrows Preserve
    • East River Woodlands
    • Eastwoods
    • Jared Eliot Preserve
    • Kampmeyer Preserve
    • Munger Brook
    • Nut Plains Woods
    • Priscilla Otte Preserve
    • Spencer’s Creek
    • Tanner Marsh Brook
    • Westwoods

State Parks / Forests

• • Cockaponset State Forest
    • Guilford North Parcel

Blue Blaze

• • Menunkatuck | New England Trail
    • Chittenden Park – 0.2 miles – (Parking) – From Long Island Sound, over a boardwalk, through the field, and onto the road
    • 3.9 mile road walk
    • East River Preserve – 3.2 miles – (Parking) – Rocky along the East River to the open fields and through the woods
    • Nut Plain Woods – 1.7 miles – (Parking) – Long wetland board walk and unassuming woods between private property
    • 0.2 mile road walk
    • Timberland Preserve – 2.6 miles – Crosses Iron Stream, passes Paradise Pool and the upper reaches of Upper Guilford Lake
    • Cockaponset: Guilford North Parcel – 1.6 miles – (Parking) – Fairly standard old woods road with a “cave” passing the local Sportman’s Club
    • Genesee Recreation Area – 3.6 miles – Gently rolling trail skirts the edge of this Water Authority property but doesn’t touch its history
    • Broomstick Ledges – 0.2 miles – Beautifully rocky winding trail over and between the ledges
      • Junction with the Mattabesett Trail
  • Mattabesett | New England Trail
    • Bluff Head – 3.9 miles (Parking) – Climb to an overlook view before traveling through deep woods

The Rest

• • Audubon
    • Guilford Salt Meadows Sanctuary
  • Regional Water Authority
    • Sugarloaf Recreation Area
    • Genesee Recreation Area