Connecticut State Parks for Hiking
120 units of Connecticut's state park system list hiking trails listed by the park. Of these, 26 have free entry. Each park page has the official details and when we last checked them.
Air Line State Park TrailMulti-Town
Algonquin State ForestColebrookFree entry
American Legion State ForestBarkhamsted
Auerfarm State Park Scenic ReserveBloomfield
Beaver Brook State ParkWindham/Chaplin
Beckley Furnace Industrial MonumentEast Canaan
Bigelow Hollow State ParkUnion$15 ($10 nonresident)
Black Rock State ParkWatertown$15 ($10 nonresident)
Bluff Point State ParkGroton$15 ($10 nonresident)
Bolton Notch State ParkBolton
Brainard Homestead State ParkEast Haddam
Burr Pond State ParkTorrington$15 ($10 nonresident)
C.P. Huntington State ParkRedding/Bethel/Newtown
Campbell Falls State ParkNorfolkFree entry
Centennial State ForestFairfieldFree entry
Chatfield Hollow State ParkKillingworth$15 ($10 nonresident)
Cockaponset State ForestHaddam/Chester$10 ($15 nonresident)
Day Pond State ParkColchester
Dennis Hill State ParkNorfolk
Devil's Hopyard State ParkEast Haddam
Dinosaur State ParkRocky Hill
Enders State ForestGranby/BarkhamstedFree entry
Farm River State ParkEast Haven
Farmington Canal Greenway State ParkCheshire/Hamden
Fort Griswold Battlefield State ParkGroton
Fort Trumbull State ParkNew London
Gay City State ParkHebron$10 ($15 nonresident)
George Waldo State ParkSouthburyFree entry
Gillette Castle State ParkEast Haddam
Haley Farm State ParkGroton
Hammonasset Beach State ParkMadison$22 ($15 nonresident)
Harkness Memorial State ParkWaterford$15 ($10 nonresident)
Haystack Mountain State ParkNorfolk
Higganum Reservoir State ParkHigganumFree entry
Hop River State Park TrailMulti-Town
Hopemead State ParkMontville/Bozrah
Hopeville Pond State ParkGriswold$15 ($10 nonresident)
Housatonic Meadows State ParkSharon
Housatonic State ForestSharon
Humaston Brook State ParkLitchfieldFree entry
Hurd State ParkEast Hampton
Indian Well State ParkShelton$15 ($10 nonresident)
James L. Goodwin State ForestHampton
John A. Minetto State ParkTorrington
Kent Falls State ParkKent$15 ($10 nonresident)
Kettletown State ParkSouthbury$15 ($10 nonresident)
Killingly Pond State ParkKillinglyFree entry
Lake Waramaug State ParkKent/New Preston$15 ($10 nonresident)
Lamentation Mountain State ParkBerlin
Larkin State Park TrailMiddlebury/Naugatuck/Oxford/Southbury
Lovers Leap State ParkNew Milford
Macedonia Brook State ParkKent
Machimoodus State ParkMoodus
Mansfield Hollow State ParkMansfield
Mashamoquet Brook State ParkPomfret
Massacoe State ForestSimsbury
Mattatuck State ForestMulti-Town
Meshomasic State ForestEast Hampton/Glastonbury/PortlandFree entry
Mianus River State ParkStamfordFree entry
Millers Pond State ParkDurham
Mohawk State Park/ForestGoshen/Cornwall$15 ($22 nonresident)
Mohegan State ForestScotlandFree entry
Mono Pond State ParkColumbia
Moosup Valley State Park TrailSterling/Plainfield
Mooween State ParkLebanon
Mount Riga State ParkSalisburyFree entry
Mount Tom State ParkLitchfield$15 ($10 nonresident)
Nassahegon State ForestBurlingtonFree entry
Natchaug State ForestEastford
Nathan Hale State ForestCoventry/AndoverFree entry
Naugatuck State ForestNaugatuck/Oxford/Beacon Falls
Nehantic State ForestLyme
Nepaug State ForestNew HartfordFree entry
Nipmuck State ForestStafford Springs/Union
Nye-Holman State ForestTolland
Osbornedale State ParkDerby
Pachaug State ForestVoluntown
Paugnut State ForestTorrington/WinchesterFree entry
Paugussett State ForestNewtownFree entry
Penwood State ParkBloomfield
Peoples State ForestBarkhamsted$10 ($15 nonresident)
Platt Hill State ParkWinchesterFree entry
Pomeroy State ParkLebanon
Pootatuck State ForestNew FairfieldFree entry
Putnam Memorial State ParkRedding
Quaddick State ForestThompson
Quaddick State ParkThompson$10 ($15 nonresident)
River Highlands State ParkCromwell
Rocky Glen State ParkNewtownFree entry
Rocky Neck State ParkNiantic$15 ($22 nonresident)
Ross Pond State ParkKillingly
Salmon River State ForestHebron/Marlborough/Colchester/East Haddam/East Hampton
Salt Rock State ForestSprague/Baltic
Satan’s Kingdom State ParkNew Hartford
Scantic River State ParkEnfield/East Windsor/Somers
Seaside State ParkWaterford
Selden Neck State ParkLyme
Shenipsit State ForestStafford/Somers/Ellington
Sherwood Island State ParkWestport$22 ($15 nonresident)
Silver Sands State ParkMilford$22 ($15 nonresident)
Sleeping Giant State ParkHamden$15 ($6 nonresident)
Southford Falls State ParkSouthbury
Squantz Pond State ParkNew Fairfield$15 ($22 nonresident)
Stoddard Hill State ParkLedyard
Stratton Brook State ParkSimsbury$10 ($15 nonresident)
Sunnybrook State ParkTorringtonFree entry
Sunrise State ParkEast Haddam
Talcott Mountain State ParkSimsbury$15 ($10 nonresident)
Topsmead State ForestLitchfield
Tri-Mountain State ParkDurham/Wallingford
Trout Brook Valley State ParkEastonFree entry
Tunxis State ForestGranby/Barkhamsted/HartlandFree entry
Wadsworth Falls State ParkMiddlefield/Middletown$10 ($15 nonresident)
West Rock Ridge State ParkHamden/New Haven
Wharton Brook State ParkWallingford/North Haven
Whittemore Glen State ParkNaugatuck/MiddleburyFree entry
Windsor Locks Canal Trail State ParkSuffield
Windsor Meadows State ParkWindsor
Wooster Mountain State ParkDanburyFree entry
Wyantenock State ForestCornwallFree entry
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.