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Pootatuck State Forest
Managed by Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection
744 acres4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · New Fairfield
New Fairfield, CT parks, trails & bike paths
About 13% of New Fairfield is conserved land, roughly 1,992 acres. There are about 12 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Pootatuck State Forest (4 mi), Great Hollow (3.3 mi), and Squantz Pond State Park (2.1 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in New Fairfield, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
New Fairfield outdoors
Conserved land
13%
1,992 of 15,979 acres
Trails
12 mi
0.5 mi per sq mi · 10 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
10
147 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
0.0 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 0.0 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
Great Hollow
Nature preserve
243 acres3.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the trailhead
3
Squantz Pond State Park
Managed by Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection
162 acres2.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4
Sweetcake Mountain Preserve
Park
36 acres0.6 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
All 10 parks & preserves
Pootatuck State Forest744 acres · 4 mi of trail · Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection
Great Hollow243 acres · 3.3 mi of trail
Squantz Pond State Park162 acres · 2.1 mi of trail · Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection
Sweetcake Mountain Preserve36 acres · 0.6 mi of trail
Hidden Valley Nature Center10 acres · 0.1 mi of trail
Southwestern Ct. Girl Scouts Council-Camp Topside88 acres
Conn. Light & Power Company (Leased By Town)75 acres
New Fairfield Town Park59 acres
New Farfield Town Beach2 acres
Ball Pond Town Park1 acres
Who protects the land
1,992 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 739 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 9 of 14 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 paths0.0 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Courts & fields
- Tennis11
- Baseball7
- Multi-sport3
- Soccer2
- Football1
- Basketball1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Nearby
New Fairfield and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
| Town | Conserved | Trails | Parks & preserves |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Fairfield | 12.5% | 12.4 mi | 10 |
| Brookfield | 11.5% | 19.4 mi | 20 |
| Danbury | 14.8% | 47.5 mi | 25 |
| New Milford | 17.5% | 44.9 mi | 30 |
| Patterson | 20.9% | 31.4 mi | 6 |
| Sherman | 17.3% | 30.3 mi | 19 |
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about New Fairfield'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.