page_title: Hancock Brook Trail
section_title: Trail communities
hierarchical_section_title: Hancock Brook Trail / Trail description / Trail communities
caption_attribution_description: Jericho Blue-Blazed Trail. View of railroad track from Lion Head high point on Hancock Brook Trail.
context_page_description: The 'Hancock Brook Trail' is a 2.8-mile Blue-Blazed hiking trail Waterville Section of the City of Waterbury in New Haven County close to the borders of Thomaston and Plymouth, Litchfield County, Connecticut. It is contained overwhelmingly in a section of the Mattatuck State Forest bounded by Hancock Brook on the east, Thomaston Avenue on the west and Spruce Brook Road / Route 262 to the north.
  The 'Hancock Brook Trail' is listed as one of the Waterbury area trails in the Connecticut Walk Book West.
  The Hancock Brook Trail is a highly linear loop trail composed of two parallel north-south trails connected at the north and south. The eastern trail follows the western shore of Hancock Brook. The western trail follows the ridge line rising up a few yards from the western shore of the Hancock Brook.
  Notable features include a 660-foot summit and several overlook views. The trail is maintained largely through the efforts of the Connecticut Forest and Park Association.
context_section_description: The official Blue-Blazed Hancock Brook Trail is entirely located within the Waterville section of the city of Waterbury in New Haven County.
caption: Scenic view from 660 foot Lion Head high point on Hancock Brook Trail. Houses on top of remote ridge, railroad tracks at bottom of valley.
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