The state park features the Heublein Tower, a 165-foot-high (50 m) mountaintop lookout.

Access to the tower and its associated museum is via a 1.25-mile-long (2 km) trail that takes 30 to 40 minutes to walk.

The park offers picnicking, views of the surrounding area, and hiking along the Metacomet Trail.

[3] Talcott Mountain was first listed as a 19-acre (7.7 ha) undeveloped state park in the 1953 edition of the Connecticut Register and Manual.

[4] Heublein Tower became part of the park "through the cooperative efforts of private conservationists and state and federal governments" in 1965.