Reviews of Cockaponset State Forest (Park)

David Martin

This is a great hidden trail. Lots of wild life and floura to see and explore. The trails are thin and over grown in some places, but if you want to feel out in the woods and far from it all this is the perfect place. My daughters were …

Victor Strong

Really nice spot until people from out of town come around. Year after year the park is flooded by inner city residents who don’t care about the park and trash it. Cars fill the place and it’s left with trash everywhere from them. When locals or civilized people visit it’s one of my favorite lakes in the state.

Arissona Negron

I just bought a 2005 Toyota 4runner and wanted to test its off roading chops. It's stock so I wasn't looking for anything crazy. The dirt roads here were a challenge and I'm very happy the 4runner has plates on the undercarriage. I did hit …

Holly Johnson

Beautiful, well maintained hiking trails

Helen Henriksen-Schuler

Beautiful!

Mary Knuth

Great place to hike and walk the dog. Keep your dog on leash

Josh Scalora

Nice place for a walk.

halik Milligan

The place to eat in Waterbury. CT

kevin wilson

Nice quiet lake in the woods

JD DeLaurentis

Great place for a bike ride or hike

Daniel Destefano

Love it

Angela Donoso

Beautiful sunset!

Andrew Taylor

Wonderful walking, poor trail marking. Take a photo of the map before you go in but expect to find one or two surprises. The landmarks are well worth seeing. There are some real titanic boulders hidden within, and plenty of wildlife.

Robert Grismer

Very nice trails.

Jessica Bartolini

Beautiful!

Twisted ByNature

Beautiful, peaceful and quiet

Rehberg Hansen

One of the reasons I moved back to CT was the deep and beautiful State Parks that have been preserved here since I was a child. STILL beautiful and lush. Enjoyable day hikes. To those visiting...PLEASE do NOT litter in CT State Parks. Thanks!

Bobby Butcher

Some of the best trails nearby. You can hike for hours never walking on the same trail. If your into geocaching there are some good little caches to find!

Victor Fanelli Sr

Visiting state parks is on my must do list and this park is a gem.

Anthony Cyrulik

Good beach, free parking, kid friendly

iEateggs Everymorning

Too many road blocks

Fritz Cass

Good hiking

Henry Barsky

Visited their Chrysler/Jeep/Ram / Dodge store. Nice place. Friendly helpful people!

Chelsea Panek

what happened to Bart?

Col. Kevin Scott

Great place to visit

Dan Donnelly

Great Madison Land Trust hiking trails in this area. Diversified terrain and foliage.

Barry Bernard

Love this hiking place. Lots of trails and water.

AntonioCorozal Calogero

Great place and excellent people working for me.

Danny Hayes

Very beautiful place to take the family

Bigfoot Is Right Outside

Nice walking area, be prepared to bushwack though.

Diobani Almonte

Fast for delivery

Niki Rioux

Beautiful hiking place.

jahforce7

Good hiking

Matt Suppinger

Nice place.

Libby Delaune

Great trails, clean park. We parked at the commuter lot right off exit 8 and walked down the street to the trail head. Lots of butterflies out this week (went on Sat 7/16/16). Had a great time!!

Cade Webster

Good place for some afternoon fun. Small beach area for swimming, fun jumping area by the dam, plenty of camping spots, and a large lake fun for kayaking and canoeing.

Mike Cartagena

Time alone .

pmg57 art

It was so interesting and I would definitely recommended for anyone.

Luna Mae

I couldnt think of a single negative thing to say about this place. What stands out the most for me is the complete absence of litter. It has the most incredible views and the hike to the top is just the right amount of a challenge for anyone of any age. Highly recommend this beautiful place.

Michael Salvatore

I was never even here! I'm still giving it five stars! Why did this come up on Google Maps?

Marvin Amoamah

Nice

Greg Mcverry

We tKe our cub scouts camping here every year. Great camp site for youth with lake access. The sites are clean and pretty flat. There were sometimes groups at the site blaring loud music but overall most other guests are quite respectful. The hiking trails around the lake are great for any level. There are harder hikes above the lake. Bring a pole or a kayak and have fun

XxmiaisasavegXx

Nice and beautiful

Zaidel 100

A great and magnificent place that is full of nature. There are many geo cashes on premisis. I love going out there about every sunday and just enjoying the nature and beuaty.

Mike S

No Turkeys! Only people walking their miserable dogs!!!

Liam O'Neill

Plenty of forest service/fire road or whatver you call hard packed dirt forest roads where you are from. Some off roading to be had, of questionable legality for 4x4 road vehicles. Share the road, saw quite a few dirt bikers. A quick wave and pulling off to the side for them to pass when possible makes for a very friendly crowd. Gets muddy after a rain; make sure you are properly equipped if venturing off the mains.

Louise Cameron

Was a beautiful hiking experience.

Sheryl Cohen-Alexander

The second largest state forest in the state with a lovely lake and trail all around it. A second body of water is the reservoir and well marked, no boaters allowed please.There are two sites for youth groups to camp by the lake and a lean to or two at each site. Many people come here to hike, swim, mountain bike, ride horses, run dog sleds, cross country ski, snowshoe and of course fish in the stocked lake and hunt mushrooms. It is regularly patrolled by park rangers. Many people just stay on the gravel roads in their activities. Others follow the blue trails mixed in. Spring time brings a glorious display of mountain laurel, the state flower so just enjoy. My husband travels through here every day and has for 25 years. He says it is his nirvana. Rangers and forestry students come in often to manage the forest and another area has been set up as a wild duck refuge where you just might see a blue heron. In the Fall hunting is allowed, bow and arrow, black powder and then shotgun if that's your thing. Turkey, deer, coyote, furever cats abound. No bears yet but a mouse was killed on the highway near it so they have arrived from up north.

Precious Hills

Waterfall was amazing

cherishluv

Great spot

Richardson Price

Easy parking, well marked trail. Some small litter here and there from savages and dirtbags but overall a nice escape right on Rt 80

Owen Wright

Good trails for hiking/mountain biking. Some trails can be technical.

Trick Rick

good trails and large area. so big that you rarely meet someone else.

Joe V

Nice state park, swimming, hiking and fishing available.

David Beauchemin

Love CT open spaces

Padraic Hagan

Several CFPA blue trails throughout. Warning, Cockaponset SF consists of a lot of disconnected chunks of state land throughout the middle of the state.

John Walenczyk

The trees did a great job of providing oxygen and shade, however the birds squawked at inappropriate times and the squirrels were a little too nutty for my liking.

Hair Attraction

Beautiful

Michael Paradis

Nice forest. Prefer Chatfield Hallow State Park.

Mitch Honan

Great park. Good for hiking, mountain biking and horseback riding. No major elevation change with plenty of trails

Doug

Biggest state forest In ct; chilling, wheeling. Closed after sunset...

Karrie Knudsen

Great place for hiking, picnics and exploring nature!

Wesley Towner

Great trails

Alfredo Batista

Great experience!

Robert Nesta

Went Quad Riding True here Nice place to go With family and friends.

Joey B.

Come here with your map and compass. A LOT of acreage to explore.

Mark Reidy

Great place to hike, spend a leisurely day at.

Joe Handy

Send the day with the family, eat ,play,swim.

michael van jeune

This is literally my favorite place in the world!!!

Lance Devereux

Beautiful place!

Gail Reynolds

Great recreation area

stan lepeak

Great hiking spot. Miles of trails. Diverse terrain. Great views. Lots of privacy.

Kevin Peoples

Great place hiking or Mtbiking. Lot of trails. Trails range from easy to technical rock gardens

Kyle Prince

Trails and nature... A combo you just can't beat.

Luke J

Gorgeous lake!

paul lenoce

A great place to visit with incredible views

Nataly Cardona

This place is beautiful. Well kept secret.

Connor Isnard

Lotta Bugs Doc

E Nigma

Great for hiking

Jonathan Rubin

Beautiful and uncrowded

Peter McGarvey

Fantastic

Morris Cunningham

Beautiful,beautiful view travelling the northeast,the treea are so pretty.

Rabia Waseem

Nice place to visit...

max muniz

I don't even know where that is!

Only YHWH it Way ABBA YHWH

Amazing Place

Ted G

Basic state park, and to the Google reviewer that keeps marking this as a National Forest please stop that, this is a state park.

Jim Zamecnik

Beautiful place, but there's trees everywhere!

Dan Charron

Great forest for walking and checking out trees. Please stop dumping trash here.

Matt Bo

Lots of little lovely trails hidden off of a few well maintained dirt roads. easy to get lost here for a day.

Wendy Sweller

Great hiking

Giovanna Marshall

Beautiful place to enjoy in family.

Mica Notz

Love this place!

Jo Ann

Love being out in nature. great trails

Jeffrey Glidden

Nature at its best

Robert Stout

Great place for a hike of any difficulty level. Beautiful area. Bring the kids and your dog!!

Lisa Michele

Extensive trails with a variety of ecosystems. Cool rock formations. Nice place to hike. Mostly flat with some small rolling hills.

jenna hawks

Beautiful like the rest of CT

Jay Vizcaino

One of fav parks to visit...the lake is wonderful

Ryan McKain

One of the only public roads to take a 4wd on. Neat roads and not too serious.

Ralph Amodei

Nice drive from East Haven.

julia whalen

Beautiful

Joshua Hoover

Nice area for hiking hot a lot of miles in this park.

Peter Katz

Nice place to hike or fish

robert pepe

#nature,,, great piece of stateland,well marked blue trail lots of wildlife aslong as your quiet and take the time sit quietly n watch closely! Mornings are great to get in the woods while still near dark n listen to the woods come alive!!! #exploreoutside!!!

Sasha Krushnic

The best

Catherine G

Awesome

Bruce Johnston

Nice park. The lake is good to swim in in the summer and also good to hike around.

Frank Stellato

Terrain is mostly flat, so not a challenging hike, but there are a variety of trails, all well maintained. Great for dogs, bikes, and horses.

Amanda Lucas

great forest to have a lovely picnic with friends and family.

Madeline Torres

Nice for a swim

Sara Herrington

Beautiful and clean!

Jesse LaRoche

Flat and not challenging, beautiful trees and walls

Simon Edgett

Great trails that are well maintained. Some nice views.

Damon Alston

Lovely park, fishing, hiking trails, safe area

joe-switch engage

Had to take my daughter here this past winter to take some nature photos for one of her classes at school. It's a good thing I drive an AWD Subaru cause when we pulled in there was still snow and A LOT of mud on the main trail. I didn't see a parking area so we decided to drive in a little further then a little further and the trail started getting narrower and narrower with very deep mud and nowhere to turn around to go back. As we got deeper into the forest/park we didn't know if the trail lead out or not and by this point my car was completely covered in thick mud and our speed was only a slow crawl. After about 15 minutes or so we FINALLY came out the other end into civilization so I pulled over to try and clean my windshield and windows off and my daughter finally took her pictures and added a pic of my car completely covered in thick mud to her project which she ace'd btw! Lmao! What a day and what a drive! I plan to go back in the Summer to enjoy the park mud free. Definitely recommended for anyone who's into nature, hiking and especially MUD BOGGING! LOL!

Donald Steiner

I live here and can tell you there are many miles of trails and thick primordial looking pine groves

Roseann Logiodice

Hiked to Dinosaur Rock. Great hike!!!

Robert Tripp

Beautiful state treasure. It's one of our most favorite places. There's so many mushrooms to forage this time of year. They're popping up every where. There's always plenty of wildlife to see to.

robert gardner

Bring back public camping for the taxpayers and it wouldn't be just a waste of beautiful land.

Charles Bates

Good (and tough) hike. Uphill and downhill halfway through. But with it. Has a cave at the midpoint that's interesting. Then head back to your car.

KB DiStasio

This place is so much fun to go 4 wheelin. Muddy and bumpy trails and open areas with man made horseshoes and hills. Stay on the trails and clean up your mess or they'll close this place down for us offroaders which are hard to find in CT

James Gilbert

Full of deer ticks

Jon Scagnelli

Great place to go hiking

Abhishek Chattopadhyay

Very nice place and lovely view

Avery Johnson

Wonderful view.

Angela Scirocco

My dog loves this place! Water for my Labrador retriever to romp through and so may different trails! You never see the same thing twice! Awesome place!

Joanna C

Great hiking trails.

Michelle Jones

Beautiful!

Alene Gomez

Really pretty

Shane Schmidt

One of my favorite state parks.

Kimberly Bourdeau

Good

John Colón

Beautiful place

Michael Bernard

Beautiful spot

Natalie Kevin

a great forest for an awesome retreat with friends and family.

JUNIORS TV

I have a great time , highly recommend,,

daniel elliott

Phone number

David Clark

Great place to hike. A little wet and muddy after the recent rain storm. Easy to follow trails

Naomi Menard

A nice quiet place to think.

adam chenery

Fun!

Joseph Narducci

Come visit my neck of the woods

sweet sorrow

Great place to come swimming or just have a BBQ with the whole family . Pro tip : if you do go swimming some areas do have a lot of rocks and can hurt a bit

Colleen McCarron

Beautiful.

John Woodrum

A nice 2 mile walk on a cool winter day in Ct

Dan Labbe

This used to be such a beautiful place that my grandparents used to bring me too when I was little. But now people are leaving trash and wrecking it. So sad. Once it became “free” to get in as a CT resident, (they steal the money from everyone’s vehicle registration) no one cares about taking care of beautiful places like this.

Dave Vollhardt

Great place for a family outing...

Jonathan Vega

Beautiful state forest , hiking trails, hunting and full of animals .

Cliff Graillat

Great CT forest for a hike with friends and pets.

diane bauer-pisani

Great walking trails

Susan Mack

Beautiful rock and cave system.

tracy degrazia

So the trails here are well blazed, but I actually have fault with their maps that are available. The actual map you can get online is not color coordinated to the colors that are blazed on the trails, and that is a big no no from someone who is a professional cartographer. Beautiful park, just please take measures to not get lost.

Rick Huntley

Great place for a picnic, canoe or kayak, and fishing!

Eric Smith

Not 148 rt. Black pond I guess is called cockponset.

Christendale Layus

This state park is one of the best places I have ever been here in CT.

Amelia Farnham

Yup i live here

tonia ogb

Nice place to visit with family

Delmarian Harris

Warm

Tony Bolduc

Hate to see such a gorgeous place getting destroyed. CT needs more deep officers. There was garbage everywhere. Every year after the summer crowds leave my brother and I hike and pick up trash. Last year was insane. 6 bags each!