Pomeroy State Park is a 200acre undeveloped public recreation area for hiking and hunting in the town of Lebanon, Connecticut, just south of Willimantic. Established on the former estate of Charles Pomeroy, the state park is a forested area abutting preserved farmland with no entrance, no markings, and no parking. It is under the management of the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.HistoryThe park is named for Charles Pomeroy, a textile manufacturer. It consists of 200 acres of land, of which 90 acres were once part of the Pomeroy estate. The park first appeared on state rolls in the 1953 edition of the Connecticut State Register and Manual, where it was listed as occupying 84 acres. The park limits expanded to 104 acres by 1963.TerrainThe park preserves a forested area that shares a boundary with preserved farmland, its natural setting undisturbed by development of so much as an entrance to the park. The park includes the summit of 505ft Bush Hill, south of Hosmer Mountain. A 2005 property designation map from the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection uses a portion of the Willimantic quadrangle map to show the hilly terrain on the northeast portion of the park and the top of Bush Hill to the northwest. The southern limits of the park are also hilly with a steeper elevation change at the edge of the southwest boundary. In A Shared Landscape, Joseph Leary noted that it is unlikely that this park could be developed because parking is limited to the roadside of Connecticut Route 289.
