Stratton Brook State Park in Simsbury, Connecticut, serves as a year-round public recreation area for activities such as picnicking, fishing, swimming, hiking, biking, cross-country skiing, and ice fishing, and it includes a seasonal nature center. Its most notable historic feature is the Massaco Forest Pavilion, built in 1935 by the Civilian Conservation Corps. That New Deal-era building connects the park’s continuing local recreational use with the broader national history of public works and park development in the United States.