Collis P. Huntington State Park is a public recreation area covering 1,017 acres in the towns of Redding, Newtown, and Bethel in Fairfield County, Connecticut. The state park is noted for Anna Hyatt Huntington's sculptures of bears and wolves that welcome visitors at the park entrance.
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Many nice, wide open trails and lots of friendly people and friendly dogs. If you don't like dogs, you might not be comfortable here. Dogs are required to be on leashes, a rule that some owners ignore, as they do the signs telling them to pick up their dogs' poo from the trails which is really gross (and selfish!,) especially since the park kindly provides FREE dog poop bags at several locations. The old estate has a fascinating history and was a generous donation from Archer M. Huntington (the philanthropist stepson of industrialist Collis Potter Huntington) and his wife; sculptor Anna Hyatt Huntington. Archer was a humble guy who never wanted anything named after himself. It's just trails and ponds now, so don't expect a playground or bocce court. There are a lot of birds though (another reason to keep your dog...
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Always a great experience.
Go earlier for a more quiet experience and to take pictures.
Plenty of steps and can cut in and out of different paths to make your hike/walks shorter or longer.
Most people are friendly on the trail.
Lots of little alt paths to take.
Multiple parking lots for more vehicles, not much signage to tell you though.
People ride horses there so make sure you watch for large piles of horse poop.
People also ride their mountain bikes there as well so keep an eye and ear out.
People kayak around the waters and lots of trail runners.
People walk their dogs, so on leash, some off.
In the summer they keep bales of hay in the upper fields making awesome backdrops with the sky on a sunny day or sunrise/sunset.
Pretty clean and...
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Lot of short technical single track scattered throughout the larger hiking trail network. I usually ride from the main entrance all the way across the large fields which is where a bunch of the trail heads start and link. From there you can basically weave trail and single track across the park back toward the entrance. There’s also a longer single track trail that zig zags most of the park that you can pick up not too far from the main pond. Look for the big stone fireplace just off the main fire road. Otherwise watch out for hikers, walkers, joggers and horses. Rarely run into other riders on the trails so not super crowded in...
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