The Hammonassett trailhead of the Shoreline Greenway Trail is a mile-long path winding through Hammonasset Beach State Park to Webster Point Road, traversing an undeveloped peninsula of the park through a coastal upland forest with spectacular views of Long Island Sound and its salt marshes. Eagle Scouts have installed benches in scenic locations for rest, contemplation, and birdwatching. Plans call for trailside interpretive signs about salt marshes, shorebirds, stone walls and the rain garden that catches parking-lot runoff to protect the marsh.
Shoreline Greenway trails are generally easy and as accessible as the terrain allows, with some small hills. This section of the trail is hard-packed with crushed stone.
The Hammonasset trailhead of the Shoreline Greenway Trail is the eastern end of a 25-mile cycling and pedestrian trail currently being developed through five towns from Hammonasset Beach State Park in Madison to Lighthouse Point in New Haven. This trail is being pieced together by an all-volunteer organization without an existing right-of-way such as an abandoned rail line. Nearly 6 miles are complete and usable in Branford, East Haven, Madison and soon in Guilford. New sections are added as funding and landowner approvals are obtained. The length of the Hammonasset section is 1.3 miles on way, 2.6 miles out and back.
Take exit 62. Turn south onto the Hammonasset Connector and travel approximately 0.8 mile to the traffic light at Boston Post Road. You will be facing the main entrance to the park. Go left on Boston post Road up a small hill and turn right into the Shoreline Greenway Trail parking lot.
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