Sports & Outdoors
West Rock Ridge State Park
No admission feeA state park on a long trap rock ridge offering wide views over New Haven, the harbor, and Long Island Sound.
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Sports & Outdoors
Osbornedale State Park
A Derby state park with hiking trails, a historic homestead museum, gardens, and an environmental education center.
43 Chatfield Street, Derby, CT 06418 · Derby, CT
About Osbornedale State Park
Osbornedale is a state-managed park in the Naugatuck Valley hills, east of the Housatonic River. Visitors can hike, fish, picnic, and tour the Osborne Homestead Museum and its gardens. The Kellogg Environmental Center hosts nature programs and rotating art exhibits. In winter, the park's frozen pond is open for skating, and the state tests its ice for safety. The land was once hunting grounds of the Paugussett people and was later assembled into a large property by Frances Osborne Kellogg, who willed it to Connecticut in 1956.
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