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Lake Pocotopaug Connecticut Map

Explore Lake Pocotopaug, Connecticut, with this interactive street and satellite map.

This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.

Interactive Map of Lake Pocotopaug, Connecticut

How to Use This Lake Pocotopaug, Connecticut Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Lake Pocotopaug, Connecticut. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Connecticut or beyond.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Lake Pocotopaug.

Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.

City	Lake Pocotopaug
State	Connecticut (CT)
County	Middlesex County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	41.598432
Longitude	-72.510365
Population	4,901
Density	344.6 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	06424
Area Code	203, 475, 860, 959
County Seat	Middletown
School District	East Hampton School District

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About Lake Pocotopaug, Connecticut

Lake Pocotopaug is a locality in Middlesex County, Connecticut, United States. It has a population of approximately 4,901. The population density is 344.6 people per km². Lake Pocotopaug is located at 41.5984°N, 72.5104°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 06424.

Lake Pocotopaug glimmers as a vast, freshwater expanse held within the irregular, wooded folds of the Connecticut interior. It lies 7.7 miles east-northeast of Middletown, CT (from Middletown, CT: bearing 71°T), and is situated 8.4 miles south-southeast of Glastonbury Center. Hales Brook snakes through the surrounding terrain, feeding the basin with a steady, quiet persistence that defines the local hydrology. To the west, the land rises toward the crest of Clark Hill, providing a steady vantage point over the water, while the dense, shadowed canopy of the Meshomasic State Forest edges the horizon in deep, somber greens. Along the immediate shoreline, Jones Beach offers a modest clearing where the earth meets the water, the soil dark and rich with the damp scent of inland vegetation. At dusk, the light pulls long, thin shadows across the surface of Lake Pocotopaug, turning the water into a sheet of hammered pewter that seems to hold the cooling air in a fragile, temporary suspension.

Human presence here has long been dictated by the rhythm of the water and the shifting needs of a landlocked economy. Where once the landscape echoed with the labor of small-scale mills and the steady harvest of the woods, the modern character of the place has softened into a quiet, residential endurance. The remnants of stone walls, built by hands long forgotten, still trace lines through the second-growth timber, marking divisions in a terrain that has seen its industrial purpose fade into the background. Life here moves with a measured pace, far removed from the frantic pulse of the coast, defined instead by the seasonal cycles of the woods and the slow, deliberate turn of the local seasons. It is a place where the weight of history is felt not in grand monuments, but in the enduring silence of the forest and the way the morning mist clings to the surface of the water, undisturbed by the modern world.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Jones Beach (Local Recreation) — 0.3 mi, 013° N
Sears Park/Tennis Courts (Local Park) — 0.5 mi, 170° S
Lions Club Pavilion (Monument) — 0.5 mi, 165° S
Meshomasic State Forest (State Resource Management Area) — 0.9 mi, 281° W
Pumpkintown USA (Attraction) — 1.1 mi, 128° SE
Meshomasic State Forest (Old Forest Management Area) (State Resource Management Area) — 1.4 mi, 310° NW
Chatham Historical Society (Museum) — 1.5 mi, 162° S
Nathan Hall Quarry (Attraction) — 1.6 mi, 258° W
State Forest Quarry #1 (Attraction) — 1.6 mi, 263° W
Yellow Ribbon Tree (Monument) — 1.6 mi, 165° S
Airline State Park Trail (Southern Section) (State Park) — 1.7 mi, 165° S
Epoch Arts (Arts Centre) — 1.9 mi, 168° S
Dickinson Road Open Space (Local Conservation Area) — 2.3 mi, 056° NE
Face in Tree (Public Artwork) — 2.5 mi, 307° NW
Portland Reservoir (Waterfowl Production Area) — 2.6 mi, 300° NW
Great Hill Pond (State Recreation Area) — 3.0 mi, 238° SW
Air Line State Park Trail (State Park) — 3.7 mi, 129° SE
Silvio O. Conte National Fish And Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 4.5 mi, 183° S · 74k acres
Wopowog Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 4.7 mi, 164° S
Wangunk Meadows Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 4.7 mi, 283° W
Pine Brook Falls Trailhead (Attraction) — 5.4 mi, 176° S
Slocomb Mill (Historic Ruins) — 5.8 mi, 321° NW
Portland Civil War Memorial (Monument) — 5.9 mi, 265° W
Phillips Indian Rock Shelter (Historic Ruins) — 6.1 mi, 004° N
Joel Whitney Frame Crafters and Fine Art Gallery (Gallery) — 6.7 mi, 314° NW
Haddam Shad Museum (Museum) — 7.4 mi, 203° SW
Cromwell Meadows State Wildlife Area (Nature Reserve) — 7.6 mi, 263° W
Middletown Art Academy (Arts Centre) — 7.7 mi, 251° W
MAC 650 Gallery (Gallery) — 7.7 mi, 252° W
Zagray Farm Museum (Museum) — 8.7 mi, 090° E

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