Freeman Hill Brook Falls
Hartford County, Connecticut
Your visit at a glance
- Waterfall height
- Not recorded
- Location
- Hartford County, Connecticut
- Access status
- Visitor route documented; exact waterfall name match probable
- The walk
- About 1.4 miles each way, about 2.8 miles return
- Ground & access
- Wide dirt-road trail, then a short, steep set of steps down to the falls. The steps are hard to use with snow and ice.
Sessions Woods Wildlife Management Area has a waterfall of about 15 feet at the far end of its trail system. From the visitor center lot, find the main Beaver Dam Trail, a dirt road. Going right gives more downhill and about 1.4 miles to the falls. A short, steep spur with steps leads down to the falls. Return the same way. The map name Freeman Hill Brook Falls is matched to this waterfall by location; no source uses that exact name.
Plan your visit
Sessions Woods visitor center lot to the waterfall via the Beaver Dam Trail and a steep spur
CTMQ gives about 1.4 miles to the falls when you go right on the Beaver Dam Trail from the visitor center lot. The return figure is derived by doubling it.
Wide dirt-road trail, then a short, steep set of steps down to the falls. The steps are hard to use with snow and ice.
Where to start
Sessions Woods visitor center lot on Route 69 (Milford Street), Burlington.
Timing & water
Flow depends on rain and snowmelt. Current trail conditions were not checked.
Before you go
State wildlife management area. No fee or reservation is mentioned. A 2014 account says the nature center building is not open on weekends.
Visitor informationVisit sources
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