Connecticut has 63 state parks and forests offering a variety of activities including camping, biking, boating, horseback riding, and hiking. Some state forests offer winter activities like ski touring and snowmobiling.

-- Select a State Park or Forest -- American Legion State Forest, Barkhamsted Beckley Iron Furnace Industrial Monument, North Canaan Bigelow Hollow State Park, Union Black Rock State Park, Watertown Bluff Point State Park, Groton Burr Pond State Park, Torrington Campbell Falls State Park Reserve, Norfolk Chatfield Hollow State Park, Killingworth Cockaponset State Forest, Haddam Collis P. Huntington State Park, Redding Connecticut Valley Railroad, Essex Day Pond State Park, Colchester Dennis Hill State Park, Norfolk Devil's Hopyard State Park, East Haddam Dinosaur State Park, Rocky Hill Fort Griswold Battlefield State Park, Groton Fort Trumbull State Park, New London Gay City State Park, Hebron Gillette Castle State Park, East Haddam Haddam Meadows State Park, Haddam Haley Farm State Park, Groton Hammonasset State Park, Madison Harkness Memorial State Park, Waterford Haystack Mountain State Park, Norfolk Hopeville Pond State Park, Griswold Housatonic Meadows State Park, Sharon Hurd State Park, East Hampton Indian Well State Park, Shelton John A. Minetto State Park, Torrington Kent Falls State Park, Kent Kettletown State Park, Southbury Lake Waramaug State Park, Kent Macedonia Brook State Park, Kent Mansfield Hollow State Park Mashamoquet Brook State Park, Pomfret Millers Pond State Park, Durham Mohawk Mountain State Forest, Goshen Mount Tom State Park, Litchfield Natchaug State Forest, Eastford Nehantic State Forest, Lyme Nipmuck State Forest, Union Osbornedale State Park, Derby Pachaug State Forest, Voluntown Penwood State Park, Bloomfield Peoples State Forest, Barkhamsted Putnam Memorial State Park, Redding Quaddick State Park, Thompson Rocky Neck State Park, East Lyme Salmon River State Forest, Colchester Seth Low Pierrepont State Park Reserve, Ridgefield Shenipsit State Forest, Ellington Sherwood Island State Park, Westport Silver Sands State Park, Milford Sleeping Giant State Park, Hamden Southford Falls State Park, Southbury Squantz Pond State Park, New Fairfield Stratton Brook State Park, Simsbury Talcott Mountain State Park, Bloomfield Topsmead State Forest, Litchfield Wadsworth Falls State Park, Middlefield West Rock Ridge State Park, Hamden/New Haven Wharton Brook State Park, Wallingford