1
Kathan Woods
Managed by Prospect Land Trust
82 acres1.9 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · Prospect
Prospect, CT parks, trails & bike paths
About 3.1% of Prospect is conserved land, roughly 285 acres. There are about 12 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Kathan Woods (1.9 mi) and Hotchkiss Field (0.8 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Prospect, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Prospect outdoors
Conserved land
3.1%
285 of 9,189 acres
Trails
12 mi
0.8 mi per sq mi · 1 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
14
30 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
Hotchkiss Field
Park
20 acres0.8 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3
Roaring Brook Park
Managed by Town of Cheshire
14 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
4
Luke Street Wetland
Nature preserve
50 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
All 14 parks & preserves
Showing 1–10 of 14 parks & preserves
Kathan Woods82 acres · 1.9 mi of trail · Prospect Land Trust
Hotchkiss Field20 acres · 0.8 mi of trail
Roaring Brook Park14 acres · 0.3 mi of trail · Town of Cheshire
Ben's Homestead18 acres · 0.2 mi of trail · Town of Cheshire
Naugatuck State Forest - Mount Sanford Block7 acres · 0.1 mi of trail
Mixville Park4 acres · 0.1 mi of trail · Town of Cheshire
Luke Street Wetland50 acres
McGrath Park29 acres · Prospect Parks and Recreation
Naugatuck State Forest7 acres · Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection
Old Kalinauskas Farm7 acres
Who protects the land
285 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 17 of 22 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
- Baseball12
- Tennis9
- Soccer6
- Basketball3
- Skate park1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Nearby
Prospect and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Prospect'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.