page_title: Lillinonah Trail
section_title: Conservation and maintenance of the trail corridor
hierarchical_section_title: Lillinonah Trail / Conservation and maintenance of the trail corridor
caption_attribution_description: Lillinonah Trail. Blue-Blazed CFPA foot path which circles the upper Paugussett State Forest (and Lake Lillinonah/Housatonic River) in Newtown, CT. New stand of trees. Lillinonah Trail. Blue-Blazed CFPA foot path which circles the upper Paugussett State Forest (and Lake Lillinonah/Housatonic River) in Newtown, CT.
context_page_description: The Lillinonah Trail is a 5.9-mile Blue-Blazed hiking trail "system" in the lower Housatonic River valley in Fairfield County and, today, is entirely in Newtown. Most of the trail is in the upper block of Paugussett State Forest.
  The mainline trail circles the Paugussett State Forest "upper block". The west, north and east portions of the trail are shared with the northern section of Al's Trail—a ten-mile trail in Newtown.
  The Lillinonah Trail today is composed of four sides in a square "loop".
  Notable features include the Hanover Road parking lot and boat launch, semi-obscured scenic views of Pond Brook inlet and Lake Lillinonah, a climb to a high point of 480-foot, a very large oak tree, several stone fences and foundations and a demonstration of a maple sugaring technique known as "sugarbush" near the Echo Valley Road parking lot. The Lillinonah Trail is maintained largely through the efforts of the Connecticut Forest and Park Association and the Newtown Forest Association.
  The Lillinonah Trail appears to have been a larger trail in the 1940s based on the map in the 1940 CFPA Connecticut Walk Book.
caption: A new stand of fast growing poplar trees managed by the Connecticut State Department of Environmental Protection's Forestry division.
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