Details

Trail Length: 5.1 miles
Towns: Hampton
Allowed Uses: Hiking
Partners: Friends of Goodwin Forest, CT Department of Energy & Environmental Protection (DEEP)

Trail Overview

Located in the James L Goodwin State Forest, the Goodwin Forest Trails offer hiking, biking a horeseback riding opportunities around Pine Acres Pond and throughout the State Forest. These trails are maintained by the Friends of Goodwin Forest. The blue-blazed Natchaug Trail offers connections to this trail system and opportunities for loop hikes.

The Goodwin Conservation Education Center on Pine Acres Pond offers educational programming, a native plant wildlife garden, interpretive trails, and guided walks. 

CFPA acknowledges we are on the traditional lands of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, the Mohegans, the Eastern Pequot, Schaghticoke, Golden Hill Paugussett, Nipmuc, and Niantic peoples. We pay our respect to the Indigenous people who are no longer here due to colonization, forced relocation, disease, and warfare. We thank them for stewarding this land throughout generations. We recognize the continued presence of Indigenous people on this territory who have survived attempted genocide, and who still hold ties to the land spiritually and culturally. We shall be good stewards of the land we all call Quinnentucket, Connecticut.