1
Mattatuck State Forest
Managed by Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection
1,204 acres15.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · Watertown
Watertown, CT parks, trails & bike paths
About 18% of Watertown is conserved land, roughly 3,376 acres. There are about 34 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Mattatuck State Forest (15.1 mi) and Black Rock State Park (6 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Watertown, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Watertown outdoors
Conserved land
18%
3,376 of 18,781 acres
Trails
34 mi
1.2 mi per sq mi · 21 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
8
152 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
1.1 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 1.1 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
Black Rock State Park
Nature preserve
456 acres6 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
3
Veterans' Memorial Park
Park
89 acres0.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4
Town Open Space (Rear Of Honey Hill Road)
Nature preserve
24 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
All 8 parks & preserves
- Al Deland Field9 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Echo Lake Park18 ac
- Sylvan Lake Park12 ac
- Town Open Space (Rear Of Linkfield Road)11 ac
Who protects the land
3,376 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 869 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 106 of 148 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 paths1.1 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
- Steele Brook Greenway (bike route)0.4 mi
Courts & fields
- Tennis17
- Baseball10
- Lacrosse5
- Basketball3
- Soccer3
- Football1
- Multi-sport1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Watertown and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Watertown'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 21.9-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.