1
Naugatuck State Forest
Managed by Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection
1,176 acres14.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · Beacon Falls
Beacon Falls, CT parks, trails & bike paths
About 27% of Beacon Falls is conserved land, roughly 1,649 acres. There are about 32 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Naugatuck State Forest (14.4 mi), Matthies Memorial Park (1.5 mi), and Lantern Ridge Open Space (1.1 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Beacon Falls, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Beacon Falls outdoors
Conserved land
27%
1,649 of 6,230 acres
Trails
32 mi
3.3 mi per sq mi · 19 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
7
268 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
0.4 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 0.4 mi off-road paths
Conserved land is a share of the whole town area. Bike lanes are often missing from the map in smaller towns, so that number is likely low.
Map
Conserved land, trails & bike routes
Tap a number or a place below to zoom in© OpenStreetMap contributors · USGS PAD-US
Places to walk
Parks & preserves with trails
Ranked by mapped trail miles. Directions go to the nearest marked trailhead or public parking.
2
Matthies Memorial Park
Managed by Town of Beacon Falls
107 acres1.5 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3
Lantern Ridge Open Space
Managed by Town of Beacon Falls
105 acres1.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4
Mendell's Folly Preserve
Nature preserve
52 acres1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
5
Beacon Falls Town Recreation Field
Park
48 acres0.7 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
6
Beacon Falls Open Space
Nature preserve
42 acres0.5 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
All 7 parks & preserves
- Volunteer Park1 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
Who protects the land
1,649 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. Public access isn't recorded for 23 of 24 parcels. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes0.0 mi
- Off-road bike paths0.4 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Courts & fields
- Baseball7
- Tennis6
- Basketball2
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Beacon Falls and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Beacon Falls's trails yet. Muddy, icy, a bridge out, where to park: a quick post helps the next person.
Sources: trails, parks, preserves, courts and bike lanes © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), map data as of 2026-09-28. Conserved land: USGS Gap Analysis Project, Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US). Measured against the Census town boundary.
How we measure
"Trails" are OpenStreetMap paths, bridleways, public tracks and unpaved footways, plus footways inside a park or preserve or on a named trail route. Sidewalks are left out. Areas are counted on a 20-meter grid, so overlapping parcels count once. "Conserved" includes conservation easements, which protect land from development but are usually private property. Trailheads are the nearest marked trailhead, public parking lot or information board within about 150 meters of a preserve. Dog rules come from OpenStreetMap when someone has tagged them; otherwise we show what's typical for the land manager, or say the rules aren't recorded.