The state park offers hiking trails, a swimming beach, trout fishing, mountain biking, rock climbing, and picnicking areas.

Park attractions include 6.67-acre (2.70 ha) Schreeder Pond,[2] Indian caves, historic sites, a restored water wheel, and a reproduction covered bridge.

[4] The CCC created Schreeder Pond in 1934 by building a horseshoe-shaped earth and stone dam across Chatfield Hollow Brook.

until the Final Woodland years which end in 1633, the area that Chatfield Hollow State Park occupies was important for fishing, plant gathering, and hunting to the River Indians of New England.

There are large granite rock overhangs where artifact discovery shows inhabitance long before the first English colonists settled in Chatfield Hollow.