The Bolton Lakes are located in Connecticut's Tolland County, just 14 miles east of the state's capital city of Hartford. The series of three freshwater lakes are located within a watershed in excess of 2,000 acres located in the towns of Bolton, Vernon, Tolland and Coventry.

Individually known as the Lower, Middle, and Upper Bolton Lakes, they are connected by a dam and a culvert with the primary flow of water running from the northern most "upper", through the "middle" into the "lower" and then out into the Hop River at the southern end of the chain.