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James L. Goodwin State Forest
Managed by Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection
710 acres9.1 mi of trail
Goodwin Forest Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · Chaplin
Chaplin, CT parks, trails & bike paths
About 38% of Chaplin is conserved land, roughly 4,749 acres. There are about 30 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in James L. Goodwin State Forest (9.1 mi), Natchaug State Forest (8.4 mi), and Edward Garrison Park (1.1 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Chaplin, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Chaplin outdoors
Conserved land
38%
4,749 of 12,420 acres
Trails
30 mi
1.5 mi per sq mi · 22 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
16
2,294 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
3.3 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 3.3 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.
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Natchaug State Forest
Managed by Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection
1,919 acres8.4 mi of trail
CCC Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3
Edward Garrison Park
Park
37 acres1.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4
Bernard Church Woods
Managed by Joshua's Trust
37 acres1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
5
Hubbard Sanctuary
Managed by Joshua's Trust
34 acres0.9 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
6
Mansfield Hollow Lake Recreation Area
Managed by United States Army Corps of Engineers
501 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
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Agnes' Pasture
Managed by Joshua's Trust
12 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Website
All 16 parks & preserves
- Two Sister's Preserve40 ac · 0.2 mi trail · Directions
- Airline State Park Trail (Northern Section)96 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Diana's Pool29 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Fin, Fur, and Feather Club251 ac
- Harvey Preserve87 ac
- Beaver Brook State Park70 ac
- Mansfield Hollow State Park46 ac
- Natchaug Property20 ac
- Natchaug River Water Access20 ac · Directions
Who protects the land
4,749 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 764 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 69 of 77 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 paths3.3 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Courts & fields
- Baseball2
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Chaplin and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Chaplin'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.