10 Parks and preserves
Parks, Trails and Ponds Across Bethel
Two blocks off Greenwood Avenue the town turns into ponds and woods. They sit all over Bethel rather than along the avenue, so plan on driving to most of them.
Eight parks and preserves, sixteen ponds and six trails, plotted where the map records them.
- Parks and preserves
- 8
- Ponds
- 16
- Trails
- 6
- Pond
- Park or preserve
- Greenwood Avenue
Each mark sits at the coordinates OpenStreetMap records for that feature, inside the town boundary. Shapes are not traced.
On the avenue
P. T. Barnum Square
A small triangular park laid out in 1881 as Fountain Place, renamed for the showman in 1928, with Ernest Moore Viquesney's bronze Doughboy at its center.
On the avenue
Town Green
Municipal open space, free and open to the public.
Off avenue
Bennett Memorial Park
Town-owned parkland on Shelter Rock Road, open to the general public.
Off avenue
Meckauer Park
A town park off Shelter Rock Road with a playground.
Off avenue
Meckauer Park Playground
Off avenue
Overlook Park
Off avenue
Parloa Park
Off avenue
Parloa Park Playground
Off avenue
Stephenson Preserve
A nature preserve with its own named trail.
Off avenue
The Nature Conservancy Wolfpits Nature Preserve
Private, Open To Public Without Fee
6 Trails in Bethel
Trails
| Trail | Type | Surface |
|---|---|---|
| Dog Walking Path | Path | gravel |
| Enchanted Trail | Path | wood |
| Huntington Ridge Trail | Path | earth |
| Pond Loop | Path | Not recorded |
| Stephenson Trail | Path | Not recorded |
| Pond Trail | Hiking route | Not recorded |
16 Ponds and lakes
Ponds
Sixteen ponds and lakes sit inside the town line, more water than Bethel has main street.
- Little River Pond
- Bethels Pond
- Sympaug Pond
- Todd Park
- Signors Pond
- Lily Pond
- North Pond
- King Lake
- King Lake No 1
- King Lake No 2
- Chestnut Pond
- Whose Pond
- Jenkins Pond
- Schatten Pond
- Hurd Pond
- Chestnut Ridge Reservoir