Pachaug State Forest 
Route 49
Voluntown, CT 06384
860-376-4075
http://www.ct.gov/dep/cwp/view.asp?a=2716&q=325068&depNav_GID=1650
State Park: Birding, Hike, Picnic, Walk, Water Sports
Pachaug covers about 24,000 acres in six towns, and is the largest forest in the State system. The word “Pachaug” is derived from the Indian term meaning bend or turn in the river. The Pachaug River, running from Beach Pond to the Quinebaug River, runs through the center of the forest. Indians of the Narragansett, Pequot, and Mohegan tribes in habited this area in great number. During the last half of the seventeenth century, the Narragansetts and Pequots were defeated by the combined force of the Colonists and the Mohegans, when in 1700, a six mile square tract was granted to the Indian War Veterans. Eventually, the central portion of this land grant became “Volunteer’s Town,” incorporated as Voluntown in 1721.