West Rock State Park - Lake Wintergreen Parking Area

it's absolutely gorgeous here, although i visited in the winter and it was really cold. they have little benches for just sitting, relaxing, and looking at the water. also many trails !

Parking lot was pretty tight on a saturday. Awesome trail system. White to red and red/white is a great 1.5 mile loop around the lake. Red/white part is very rocky and rooty and something out of a dream. Ended up taking the green trail to the cave and overlook. Spent about 5 hours here hiking.

I love it here. Way less busy than east rock, so it's comfortable visiting during this pandemic. You can easily wander off into the woods via several different marked trails, or you can just take a loop around the lake. It's beautiful, easy to navigate, and definitely worth visiting over and over again. And super pet friendly!

Our third time to this beautiful serene lake. We've mountain biked and hiked to a beautiful lookout. Today the lot was full to capacity with cars parked outside the gaits but we only passed by 4 or 5 people. The place is huge with so many off trails. We stayed on the main trail which had some areas of mud from rain earlier in the day and a mild upgrade at one point since we had to take the lower level at the bottom of the falls because we had a stroller and the trail narrows and gets really rocky for about 1/8 of a mile. The baby fell asleep with the bumpy ride and the little dog was able to keep up and even waded in the stream I included a pic of. It took us about an hour and was a very enjoyable. Very well kept and clean.

This park is really beautiful and has a couple picnic tables by the lake too. The trails are clearly marked and most of them are easy but, some have moderate hills. This is a great park to go hiking with the kids or if you are recovering from some form of injury. the only downside to this park is that the parking lot is extremely small and gets crowded fast. 😳