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Best Hiking Trails near Essex, Connecticut

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Explore hiking trails around Essex, Connecticut. The best hike near Essex is Mount Carmel via Blue Trail and Tower Trail, a 2.9 mile loop in Sleeping Giant State Park. Essex has population 6769.0.

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  1. 1
    Mount Carmel via Blue Trail and Tower Trail
    ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ EASY 2.9 mi
  2. 2
    ~2.3-mi loop hike in Doctor Francis Giuffrida Park
    ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ EASY 2.3 mi
  3. 3
    stake Loop via and Metacomet Trail
    ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ EASY 4.1 mi
  4. 4
    Metacomet Trail
    ★ ★ EASY 4.9 mi
  5. 5
    ~4-mi Loop Hike in Doctor Francis Giuffrida Park
    ★ ★ ★ ★ EASY 4.0 mi
  6. 6
    Menunkatuck Trail
    ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ EASY 2.4 mi
  7. 7
    Mount Carmel
    ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ EASY 4.8 mi
  8. 8
    34
    ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ EASY 1.4 mi
  9. 9
    Long Island Sound
    ★ ★ ★ EASY 3.0 mi
  10. 10
    Breakneck Pond Loop via Breakneck Hill Road and Cat Rocks Road
    ★ ★ ★ MODERATE 5.7 mi

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Chatfield Hollow State Park
Airline State Park Trail (Southern Section)
Connetquot River State Park Preserve
Black Rock State Park
Hither Hills State Park
Caleb Smith State Park
Bolton Notch State Park
Airline State Park Trail (Northern Section)
Belmont Lake State Park
Sunken Meadow State Park
Brookhaven State Park
Brookhaven State Park
Fire Island National Seashore
Heckscher State Park
Montauk Point State Park
Nissequogue River State Park
Orient Beach State Park
Otis Pike Fire Island High Dune Wilderness
Shadmoor State Park
Wilderness Lake Campground
Airline State Park Trail (Northern Section)
Wildwood State Park
Beaver Brook State Park
Block Island National Wildlife Refuge
Brainard Homestead State Park
Brainard Homestead State Park
Camp Hero State Park