Hammonasset Beach State Park

Hammonasset Beach State Park
Connecticut State Park
Sunset over Long Island Sound from Hammonasset Beach
Country	United States
State	Connecticut
County	New Haven
Town	Madison

Elevation	10 ft (3 m) ^[1]
Coordinates	41°15′50″N 72°33′11″W / 41.26389°N 72.55306°W / 41.26389; -72.55306Coordinates: 41°15′50″N 72°33′11″W / 41.26389°N 72.55306°W / 41.26389; -72.55306

Area	936 acres (379 ha) ^[2]

Established	1920
Management	Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection

Location in Connecticut
Website: Hammonasset Beach State Park

Hammonasset Beach State Park is a Connecticut state park located in Madison, a town in New Haven County. It is Connecticut's largest shoreline park, with over two miles of beach on Long Island Sound.^[3] With over 1.9 million visits per year, it is the most popular attraction in the state.^[3] The park is open from 8am to sunset, starts charging 8am–6:30pm the third Saturday every April, and charges the weekday rate on weekends until Memorial Day.

History

Hammonasset Beach State Park opened on July 18, 1920, attracting over 75,000 visitors in its first season. During World War II the park was closed to the public and used as a U.S. Army reservation. Meigs Point functioned as an aircraft range, with planes flying over Clinton Harbor, firing at the range and then flying out over Long Island Sound. In 1955, a stone breakwater was built at the Meigs Point end of the park.^[3]

Activities and amenities

The Meigs Point Nature Center offers environmental education programs and activities for park visitors on a limited year-round basis.^[3] The nature center features a touch tank and live turtles, snakes, amphibians, crabs and fish.

Other activities include bicycling, boating, fishing, hiking, picnicking and swimming. The park has over 550 campsites available.

References

↑ "Hammonasset State Park". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
↑ Legislative Program Review and Investigations Committee (January 23, 2014). "State Parks and Forests: Funding" (PDF). Staff Findings and Recommendations. Connecticut General Assembly. p. A-2. Retrieved March 20, 2014.
1 2 3 4 "Hammonasset Beach State Park". Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Retrieved June 22, 2013.

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Meigs Point Nature Center

Protected areas of Connecticut

National Park Service	Weir Farm National Historic Site

National Wildlife Refuges	Silvio O. Conte Stewart B. McKinney

National Trails	Appalachian Trail New England National Scenic Trail Washington–Rochambeau Revolutionary Route

State Parks	Above All Air Line Beaver Brook Becket Hill State Park Reserve Beckley Furnace Industrial Monument Bennett's Pond Bigelow Hollow Black Rock Bluff Point Bolton Notch Brainard Homestead Burr Pond Camp Columbia Campbell Falls Chatfield Hollow Collis P. Huntington Connecticut Valley Railroad Dart Island State Park Day Pond Dennis Hill Devil's Hopyard Dinosaur Eagle Landing Farm River Farmington Canal Fort Griswold Battlefield Fort Trumbull Gardner Lake Gay City George Dudley Seymour George Waldo Gillette Castle Haddam Island Haddam Meadows Haley Farm Hammonasset Beach Harkness Memorial Haystack Mountain Higganum Reservoir Hop River State Park Trail Hopemead Hopeville Pond Horse Guard Housatonic Meadows Humaston Brook Hurd Indian Well John A. Minetto Kent Falls Kettletown Killingly Pond Lake Waramaug Lamentation Mountain Larkin State Park Trail Lovers Leap Macedonia Brook Machimoodus Mansfield Hollow Mashamoquet Brook Mianus River Millers Pond Minnie Island Mohawk Mountain Mono Pond Moosup Valley State Park Trail Mooween Mount Bushnell Mount Riga Mount Tom Old Furnace Osbornedale Penwood Platt Hill Pomeroy Putnam Memorial Quaddick Quinebaug Lake Quinnipiac River River Highlands Rocky Glen Rocky Neck Ross Pond Salt Rock State Campground Satan's Kingdom State Recreation Area Scantic River Selden Neck Seth Low Pierrepont Sherwood Island Silver Sands Sleeping Giant Southford Falls Squantz Pond Stillwater Pond Stoddard Hill Stratton Brook Sunnybrook Sunrise Resort Talcott Mountain Tri-Mountain Trout Brook Valley Wadsworth Falls West Rock Ridge Wharton Brook Whittemore Glen Windsor Locks Canal State Park Trail Windsor Meadows Wooster Mountain

State Forests	Algonquin American Legion Centennial Watershed Cockaponset Enders James L. Goodwin Housatonic Massacoe Mattatuck Meshomasic Mohawk Mohegan Nassahegon Natchaug Nathan Hale Naugatuck Nehantic Nepaug Nipmuck Nye-Holman Pachaug Paugnut Paugussett People's Pootatuck Quaddick Salmon River Shenipsit Topsmead Tunxis Wyantenock

Reservoirs	Aspetuck Reservoir Barkhamsted Reservoir Candlewood Lake Hop Brook Lake Lake Lillinonah Mansfield Hollow Lake Saugatuck Reservoir West Hartford Reservoir Lake Zoar

Private	Aspetuck Land Trust Aton Forest Bartlett Arboretum and Gardens Bear Mountain Branford Land Trust Beckley Bog Case Mountain Cathedral Pines Connecticut Audubon Society Center at Fairfield Connecticut College Arboretum Devil's Den Preserve Earthplace Great Mountain Forest Higby Mountain Highstead Arboretum Joshua's Tract Conservation and Historic Trust McLean Game Refuge New Canaan Nature Center Peter's Rock Pine Mountain Reserve Saltonstall Mountain Stamford Museum & Nature Center Steep Rock Association Weantinoge Heritage Land Trust White Memorial Foundation Woodcock Nature Center

Trails	American Legion State Forest Trails Aspetuck Valley Trail Blue-Blazed Trails Chatfield Trail Hancock Brook Trail Housatonic Range Trail Lillinonah Trail Mattabesett Trail Menunkatuck Trail Metacomet Trail Narragansett Trail Natchaug Trail Naugatuck Trail Nehantic Trail Nipmuck Trail Paugussett Trail Pequot Trail Quinnipiac Trail Regicides Trail Salmon River Trail Shenipsit Trail Tunxis Trail Westwoods Trails Whitestone Cliffs Trail Zoar Trail

Nature centers	List of nature centers in Connecticut

Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection (web)

Nature centers in Connecticut

Fairfield County	Audubon Greenwich Bartlett Arboretum and Gardens Connecticut Audubon Society Birdcraft Museum and Sanctuary Connecticut Audubon Society Center at Fairfield Darien Nature Center Earthplace Highstead Arboretum New Canaan Nature Center New Pond Farm Old Quarry Nature Center Sherwood Island State Park Soundwaters Stamford Museum & Nature Center Trumbull Nature & Arts Center Webb Mountain Discovery Zone Woodcock Nature Center

Hartford County	Barnes Nature Center Connecticut Audubon Society Center at Glastonbury Eleanor Buck Wolf Nature Center Holcomb Farm Indian Rock Nature Preserve Northwest Park Nature Center Oak Grove Nature Center Roaring Brook Nature Center Sessions Woods Wildlife Management Area Stratton Brook State Park Westmoor Park

Litchfield County	Flanders Nature Center Pratt Center Sharon Audubon Center White Memorial Conservation Center

Middlesex County	Bushy Hill Nature Center Chatfield Hollow State Park Platt Nature Center

New Haven County	Ansonia Nature and Recreation Center Audubon Center at Bent of the River Bauer Park Connecticut Audubon Society Coastal Center at Milford Point Henry Hamel Environmental Center Kellogg Environmental Center Meigs Point Nature Center Riverbound Farm Shoreline Outdoor Education Center West Rock Nature Center

New London County	Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center Rocky Neck State Park

Windham County	Connecticut Audubon Society Center at Pomfret Connecticut Audubon Society Center at Trail Wood Goodwin Forest Conservation Education Center

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