page_title: Naugatuck Trail
hierarchical_section_title: Naugatuck Trail
caption_attribution_description: English: Naugatuck Blue-Blazed hiking trail in Beacon Falls,CT section of Naugatuck State Forest near CT Route 8.
context_page_description: The Naugatuck Trail is a 6.8-mile Blue-Blazed hiking trail "system" in the eastern central-lower Naugatuck River Valley in New Haven County, Connecticut, USA and is today almost entirely contained in the Naugatuck State Forest. The mainline trail is primarily east to west with three short side or spur trails.
  The Naugatuck Trail today is composed of four trails including the primarily East-to-West mainline trail plus three shorter side trails. At its western end the trail ends with a section alongside Route 8 and the Naugatuck River.
  Notable features include the summits of Beacon Cap and Spruce Knoll. The trail goes near, but does not summit Beacon Hill. The Naugatuck Trail is maintained largely through the efforts of the Connecticut Forest and Park Association.
  The Naugatuck Trail was a much larger trail in the 1930s and 1940s but it has been one of the trail systems most drastically shrunk by post–World War II housing developments of the Connecticut Blue-Blazed Trails.
context_section_description: The Naugatuck Trail is a 6.8-mile (10.9 km) Blue-Blazed hiking trail "system" in the eastern central-lower Naugatuck River Valley in New Haven County, Connecticut, USA and is today almost entirely contained in the Naugatuck State Forest.  The mainline (officially the "Blue" or "non-dot") trail is primarily east to west with three short side or spur trails.
  The Naugatuck Trail today is composed of four trails including the primarily East-to-West mainline trail (5.5 miles) plus three shorter side trails. At its western end the trail ends with a section alongside Route 8 and the Naugatuck River.
  Notable features include the summits of Beacon Cap and Spruce Knoll. The trail goes near, but does not summit Beacon Hill (670 feet). The Naugatuck Trail is maintained largely through the efforts of the Connecticut Forest and Park Association.
  The Naugatuck Trail was a much larger trail in the 1930s and 1940s but it has been one of the trail systems most drastically shrunk by post–World War II housing developments of the Connecticut Blue-Blazed Trails.
caption: Naugatuck Trail parallel to Connecticut State Route 8 and the Naugatuck River
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