Connecticut State Parks for Boating and Paddling

53 units of Connecticut's state park system list boat ramps, boating or paddling access. Of these, 7 have free entry. Each park page has the official details and when we last checked them.

American Legion State ForestBarkhamsted

Beaver Brook State ParkWindham/Chaplin

Bigelow Pond in Union, Connecticut on September 6, 2005

Bigelow Hollow State ParkUnion$15 ($10 nonresident)

Bluff Point State ParkGroton$15 ($10 nonresident)

Bolton Notch State ParkBolton

Burr Pond State ParkTorrington$15 ($10 nonresident)

C.P. Huntington State ParkRedding/Bethel/Newtown

Cockaponset State ForestHaddam/Chester$10 ($15 nonresident)

Dart Island State ParkMiddletownFree entry

Eagle Landing State ParkHaddam

Farm River State ParkEast Haven

Fort Griswold Battlefield State ParkGroton

Fort Trumbull State ParkNew London

Gardner Lake State ParkSalem

George Waldo State ParkSouthburyFree entry

Haddam Island State ParkHaddam

Haddam Meadows State ParkHaddam

Hammonasset Beach State ParkMadison$22 ($15 nonresident)

Higganum Reservoir State ParkHigganumFree entry

Hopeville Pond State ParkGriswold$15 ($10 nonresident)

Housatonic Meadows State ParkSharon

Indian Well State ParkShelton$15 ($10 nonresident)

James L. Goodwin State ForestHampton

Kettletown State ParkSouthbury$15 ($10 nonresident)

Lake Waramaug State ParkKent/New Preston$15 ($10 nonresident)

Mansfield Hollow Lake in Tolland County, Mansfield, Connecticut, USA

Mansfield Hollow State ParkMansfield

Mashamoquet Brook State ParkPomfret

Minnie Island State ParkBozrah/Montville

Mono Pond State ParkColumbia

Mooween State ParkLebanon

Mount Tom State ParkLitchfield$15 ($10 nonresident)

Natchaug State ForestEastford

Naugatuck State ForestNaugatuck/Oxford/Beacon Falls

Nehantic State ForestLyme

Nipmuck State ForestStafford Springs/Union

Pachaug State ForestVoluntown

Paugussett State ForestNewtownFree entry

Peoples State ForestBarkhamsted$10 ($15 nonresident)

Quaddick State ParkThompson$10 ($15 nonresident)

Quinebaug Lake State ParkKillinglyFree entry

Ross Pond State ParkKillingly

Salt Rock State ForestSprague/Baltic

Satan’s Kingdom State ParkNew Hartford

Scantic River State ParkEnfield/East Windsor/Somers

Selden Neck State ParkLyme

Low tide seen from Milford Point Audubon Wildlife Refuge in Connecticut, USA — Silver Sands State Park

Silver Sands State ParkMilford$22 ($15 nonresident)

Squantz Pond in Squantz Pond State Park , New Fairfield, Connecticut, USA, on an autumn morning

Squantz Pond State ParkNew Fairfield$15 ($22 nonresident)

Stillwater Pond State ParkTorringtonFree entry

Stoddard Hill State ParkLedyard

Sunrise State ParkEast Haddam

Tunxis State ForestGranby/Barkhamsted/HartlandFree entry

West Rock Ridge State ParkHamden/New Haven

Windsor Meadows State ParkWindsor

Lists are built automatically from official park data and update when parks change. Inclusion means the official source lists the feature; it is not a ranking.