Source: AMC's Best Day Hikes in Connecticut: Four-Season Guide to 50 of the Best Trails from the Highlands to the Coast

• Cross-country skiing

What you’ll see: Within the Housatonic Meadows State Park, there are lovely ski trails over rugged hills, along brooks, and through pine and hemlock groves with beautiful views of the Housatonic Valley.

• Distance: 2.6 miles
• Elevation Gain: 700 feet
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• Shady woodlands
  
• Hatch Brook Ravine
• Fly fishing and canoeing
  

• From the junction of Routes 4/7 in Cornwall Bridge, proceed 1.0 mile north on Route 7 to the parking area on the left.