QUICK TRAIL FACTS
- Preserve Size: Not sure
- Trail Mileage: ~0.5 mile one way
- Pets: yes
- Difficulty: easy
- Sights: marsh
The short one-way Cattail Trail links playing fields with Lawrence High School. It’s wide and packed gravel — almost wheelchair accessible save for some roots. Find the trail at the edge of the playing fields, at both ends. On my visit in 2024, the signs were tucked away a bit, so were a bit hard to see. The cattails are abundant in a marsh you walk by closer to the Industrial Road end. After the marsh, you walk through a lovely fern-covered conifer forest.
Directions: (From KM Trails) From Interstate-95 North, take exit #132, turn right onto Western Ave/Route 139; turn right onto Industrial Road. Park at the Richard McGee Athletic Complex. From downtown Fairfield, follow Western Avenue/Route 139 about 1 mile; Industrial Drive is on the left just before Interstate-95.
