Explore Lyme, CT
Lyme at a Glance
Part of New London County
My Highlights
Coming soon!
Hiking
Town Parks
- Hartman Park –★★★– 9 miles –
- River to Ridgetop North –★★★★– 13.1 miles –
- River to Ridgetop South –★★– 4.9 miles –
Land Trust
- Lyme Land Conservation Trust
- Banningwood Preserve –★★– 1.7 miles – Interesting geology, a wooded overlook, and many other interesting finds in this double loop
- Beebe Preserve – Unexplored
- Brockway-Hawthorne Preserve –★★– 1 mile – A short loop attached to the Selden Creek Preserve
- Chestnut Hill Preserve – Unexplored
- Honey Hill Preserve –★★– 1 mile – Short and simple woods loop along two hills and a babbling brook
- Grassy Hill Preserve – Unexplored
- Lyme Corner Trails – Unexplored
- Patrell Preserve – Unexplored
- Pleasant Valley Preserve – Unexplored
- Plimpton Preserve – Unexplored
- Roaring Brook Preserve – Unexplored
- Lyme Land Conservation Trust
State Parks / Forest
- Becket Hill State Park – No trails
- Gillette Castle State Park –★★★★– 2 miles –
- Selden Neck State Park –★★★★– 5 miles –
- Nehantic State Forest
- Nayantaquit Trail –★★★– 4.6 miles –
Blue Blaze
- Nayantaquit Trail –★★★– 4.6 miles –
The Rest
- Richard Goodwin Trail –★★– 1 mile –
- The Nature Conservancy
- Jewett Preserve – Unexplored
- Pleasant Valley Preserve – Unexplored
- Selden Creek Preserve –★★★– 4.8 miles –
- Lord Cove Preserve – Unexplored
- Whalebone Cove Preserve – Unexplored
Boating/Fishing
- Connecticut River
- Boat Launch by Gillette Castle
- Elys Ferry Road
- Hamburg Cove
- Carry in launch next to 13 Cove Road, parking across the street
- Nehantic State Forest
- Norwich Pond
- Uncas Lake
- Connecticut River
Coming soon!
The 18th oldest town in Connecticut. Lyme, set off from Saybrook, 1665; named from Lyme Regis in Dorsetshire, May, 1667. Formerly East Saybrook.
