Photos • Location
| Whittemore Glen State Park | |
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 Larkin Trail in Whittemore Glen State Park | |
  Location in Connecticut  Whittemore Glen State Park (the United States) | |
| Location | Naugatuck, Connecticut, United States |
| Nearest city | Waterbury, Connecticut |
| Coordinates | 41°30′42″N 73°03′56″W / 41.51167°N 73.06556°W [1] |
| Area | 242 acres (98 ha) |
| Elevation | 351 ft (107 m) [1] |
| Designation | Connecticut state park |
| Established | 1945 |
| Administrator | Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection |
| Website | Whittemore Glen State Park |
Whittemore Glen State Park is an undeveloped public recreation and wilderness area for hiking and horseback riding covering 242 acres (98 ha) mostly within the town of Naugatuck, Connecticut. [2] [3] Sitting outside the southwestern edge of the city of Waterbury, the state park is the eastern terminus of the Larkin State Park Trail. [4] It entered the roles as Connecticut's forty-eighth state park in the 1945–46 edition of the Connecticut Register and Manual. [5] The park is managed by the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.
References
- ^ a b "Whittemore Glen State Park". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- ^ "Whittemore Glen State Park". State Parks and Forests. Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Retrieved February 5, 2013.
- ^ "Whittemore Glen State Park". Connecticut Office of Tourism. Retrieved October 4, 2017.
- ^ "Larkin Trail State Park Map" (PDF). Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. October 23, 2015. Retrieved October 4, 2017.
- ^ "State Parks". State Register and Manual 1945–46. State of Connecticut. 1946. p. 280. Retrieved October 4, 2017.
External links
- Whittemore Glen State Park Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection