Housatonic State Forest
Housatonic State Forest is a Connecticut state forest occupying 10,894 acres in the towns of Sharon, Canaan, Cornwall, and North Canaan. The state forest includes two Connecticut natural area preserves, Gold's Pines and Canaan Mountain, and is the only Connecticut state forest that includes a portion of the Appalachian Trail.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Morrowlong, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cream Hill Shelter and Dean’s Ravine Falls.
Cream Hill Shelter
Shelter
Photo: Magicpiano, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Cream Hill Shelter is a rustic log shelter in Housatonic State Forest in Cornwall, Connecticut. Built in 1988, it replaced what was at the time one of three surviving log shelters constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps in Connecticut.
Dean’s Ravine Falls
Waterfall
Dean's Ravine Falls is a 50-foot-tall waterfall formed along Reed Brook in Canaan, Connecticut. The falls were once a "must-see" spot along the 2,180-mile-long Appalachian Trail, until the trail was rerouted west of the Housatonic River through Sharon, Connecticut in the early 1980s.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Canaan and Falls Village.
Canaan
Photo: Doncram, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Canaan is in the Litchfield Hills, otherwise known as the Connecticut Berkshires, in northern Litchfield County.
Falls Village
Village
Photo: Doncram, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Falls Village is a village and census-designated place in the town of Canaan in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 538, out of 1,234 in the entire town of Canaan.
Cornwall
Photo: Jmabel, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cornwall is a town in Connecticut. It is comprised of many small parts from yesteryear, but today is generally divided into three parts, Cornwall Bridge, West Cornwall, and Cornwall Village.
Housatonic State Forest
- Type: Nature reserve
- Description: Connecticut state forest
- Categories: state forest and recreation area
- Location: Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude
41.91621° or 41° 54′ 58″ northLongitude
-73.30928° or 73° 18′ 33″ westElevation
1,145 feet (349 metres)Operator
Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental ProtectionOpen location code
87H8WM8R+F7OpenStreetMap ID
node 359264583OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=nature_reserveGeoNames ID
4836378Wikidata ID
Q15225953
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to German—“Housatonic State Forest” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Housatonic State Forest”
- German: “Housatonic State Forest”
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Explore places such as Yelping Hill and Cornwall Hollow.
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