Rocky Glen State Park

{{Short description|State park in Fairfield County, Connecticut}}

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| label = Rocky Glen State Park

| location = Newtown, Connecticut, United States

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| coordinates = {{coord|41|25|42|N|73|16|55|W|display=inline,title}}

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| area = {{convert|46|acre|abbr=on}}

| elevation = {{convert|322|ft|m|abbr=on}}

| established = 1943

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| designation = Connecticut state park

| administrator = Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection

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Rocky Glen State Park is an undeveloped public recreation area covering {{convert|46|acre}} along the west side of the Pootatuck River in the town of Newtown, Connecticut. The state park offers opportunities for hiking to a scenic cascade and includes a one-and-a-half mile stretch of Al's Trail, a {{convert|10.7|mile|adj=on}} greenway trail that winds through Newtown. It appeared as the state's forty-seventh state park in the 1943 edition of the Connecticut Register and Manual. The park is managed by the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.

==References==

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{{cite web |url=https://portal.ct.gov/deep/state-parks/locate-park-forest/other-state-parks-and-forests |title=Other State Parks and Forests |publisher=Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection |access-date=July 31, 2024}}

{{cite web |url=http://www.alstrail.org/content/segment/rocky-glen |title=Rocky Glen |work=Al's Trail |publisher=AlsTrail.org |access-date=April 14, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221202155212/http://www.alstrail.org/content/segment/rocky-glen |archive-date=December 2, 2022}}

{{cite web |url=https://archive.org/stream/registerma44conn#page/n149/mode/2up/ |title=State Parks |work=Register and Manual 1943 |publisher=State of Connecticut |year=1943 |page=143 |access-date=October 6, 2017}}

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