Distance: 1.5 mile look, options for a little more with side trails or less.
Difficulty: Easy, wide packed gravel trails, some strollers could be used.
Located on Gott Lane in Rockport, Massachusetts is a beautiful ocean front state park. Halibut Point State Park consists of hiking trails, a quarry, ocean views, picnic tables and a small museum.
There is a small fee to park and enter the state park. There were porta potty’s in the parking area. Across the parking lot is the start of the trails. Make sure you check out the map. The trails are dirt, mostly flat and easy to navigate. We saw people using strollers on some of the trails.
Our first stop was a granite quarry, which was beautiful. Along with spectacular views of the Atlantic Ocean in the background.
After hiking around edge of the quarry. We walked down to a view point over looking the Atlantic Ocean.
From here we walked down to the rocks and climbed around them all while enjoying the magnificent waves. I heard someone say they sometimes saw seals here, but we didn’t see any the day we visited. The waves were fun to watch though.
We looped up to the Visitor Center where they had a small museum and restrooms. We did not go inside.
We spent about an hour enjoying Halibut State Park. We walked about a mile and half. We all agree we would absolutely return as we loved the quarry and ocean views.
