List of Massachusetts state forests
Massachusetts, with forests covering 3,060,000 acres (12,400 km2) (59%) of its land area, administers more than 500,000 acres (2,000 km2)[1] of state forest, wildlife and watershed land under the cabinet level Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs. Lands are managed by Department of Conservation and Recreation, Division of State Parks and Recreation (285,000 acres (1,150 km2)), Division of Fisheries and Wildlife (MassWildlife) (140,000 acres (570 km2)),[2] and the Division of Water Supply Protection's Office of Watershed Management[3] (104,000 acres (420 km2)).[4]
Current state forests[]
Name | Location (of main entrance) |
Town(s) | Size | Image |
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Ashburnham | Ashburnham 42°41′20″N 71°54′39″W / 42.6889°N 71.9108°W |
2,844 acres (1,151 ha) | ||
Great Barrington and Monterey 42°12′04″N 73°14′20″W / 42.2010°N 73.2388°W |
850 acres (340 ha) | |||
Barnstable State Forest | Barnstable | Barnstable 41°41′28″N 70°20′35″W / 41.6910°N 70.3431°W |
54 acres (22 ha) | ![]() |
Beartown State Forest | Monterey | Monterey, Great Barrington, Lee, Otis, Stockbridge and Tyringham 42°12′09″N 73°17′20″W / 42.2025°N 73.2889°W |
11,204 acres (4,534 ha) | ![]() |
Becket | Becket 42°16′06″N 73°01′45″W / 42.2682°N 73.0292°W |
1,311 acres (531 ha) | ||
Berkley State Forest | Berkley | Berkley 41°49′32″N 71°04′22″W / 41.8255°N 71.0728°W |
5.9 acres (2.4 ha) | ![]() |
Billerica | Billerica 42°34′05″N 71°17′53″W / 42.5681°N 71.2981°W |
370 acres (150 ha) | ||
Boxford | Boxford, Middleton, and North Andover 42°38′55″N 71°01′02″W / 42.6486°N 71.0172°W |
1,045 acres (423 ha) | ||
Bridgewater | Bridgewater 41°59′01″N 70°57′02″W / 41.9835°N 70.9505°W |
58.5 acres (23.7 ha) | ||
Brimfield State Forest | Brimfield | Brimfield, Monson and Wales 42°06′01″N 72°14′02″W / 42.1002°N 72.2340°W |
4,941 acres (2,000 ha) | ![]() |
Cummington | Cummington 42°29′11″N 72°58′22″W / 42.4865°N 72.9729°W |
636 acres (257 ha) | ![]() | |
Buckland | Buckland 42°34′39″N 72°45′17″W / 42.5776°N 72.7547°W |
93 acres (38 ha) | ![]() | |
Pelham | Pelham and Belchertown 42°21′46″N 72°26′22″W / 42.3628°N 72.4394°W |
1,203 acres (487 ha) | ||
Carlisle | Carlisle 42°32′27″N 71°22′54″W / 42.5407°N 71.3818°W |
23 acres (9.3 ha) | ||
Catamount State Forest | Colrain | Colrain and Charlemont 42°39′08″N 72°45′21″W / 42.6522°N 72.7557°W |
1,474 acres (597 ha) | |
Chester-Blandford State Forest | Chester | Chester and Blandford 42°15′14″N 72°56′58″W / 42.2538°N 72.9494°W |
2,490 acres (1,010 ha) | |
Chesterfield | Chesterfield 42°23′17″N 72°52′54″W / 42.3881°N 72.8818°W |
31.4 acres (12.7 ha) | ||
Clarksburg | Clarksburg and North Adams 42°43′02″N 73°08′59″W / 42.7172°N 73.1496°W |
3,668 acres (1,484 ha) | ||
Conway | Conway and Williamsburg 42°28′46″N 72°42′34″W / 42.4794°N 72.7095°W |
1,874 acres (758 ha) | ||
New Marlborough and Sandisfield 42°03′13″N 73°11′36″W / 42.0536°N 73.1934°W |
2,798 acres (1,132 ha) | |||
D.A.R. State Forest | Goshen | Goshen, Ashfield and Williamsburg 42°27′46″N 72°47′10″W / 42.4628°N 72.7860°W |
2,095 acres (848 ha) | |
Chesterfield | Chesterfield and Westhampton 42°21′22″N 72°49′16″W / 42.3562°N 72.8211°W |
482 acres (195 ha) | ||
Douglas State Forest | Douglas | Douglas, Oxford and Webster 42°01′54″N 71°46′27″W / 42.0318°N 71.7743°W |
5,754 acres (2,329 ha) | |
Chesterfield | Chesterfield 42°21′46″N 72°52′09″W / 42.3627°N 72.8693°W |
1,232 acres (499 ha) | ||
Great Barrington | Great Barrington, New Marlborough and Sheffield 42°10′38″N 73°19′46″W / 42.1772°N 73.3295°W |
1,867 acres (756 ha) | ||
Erving State Forest | Erving | Erving and Orange 42°36′55″N 72°22′49″W / 42.6154°N 72.3802°W |
2,261 acres (915 ha) | ![]() |
F. Gilbert Hills State Forest | Foxboro | Foxboro and Wrentham 42°03′04″N 71°15′58″W / 42.0511°N 71.2662°W |
1,040 acres (420 ha) | |
Federated Women's Club State Forest | Petersham | Petersham 42°29′15″N 72°15′17″W / 42.4876°N 72.2546°W |
469 acres (190 ha) | |
Florida | Florida and Clarksburg 42°42′01″N 73°03′26″W / 42.7003°N 73.0571°W |
2,135 acres (864 ha) | ||
Franklin | Franklin and Wrentham 42°04′26″N 71°26′13″W / 42.0738°N 71.4369°W |
914 acres (370 ha) | ||
Freetown-Fall River State Forest | Freetown | Freetown, Fall River and Lakeville 41°46′38″N 71°02′43″W / 41.7772°N 71.0454°W |
6,052 acres (2,449 ha) | ![]() |
Georgetown-Rowley State Forest | Georgetown | Georgetown, Rowley and Boxford 42°42′11″N 70°58′23″W / 42.7031°N 70.9730°W |
993 acres (402 ha) | |
Chesterfield | Chesterfield and Cummington 42°26′21″N 72°52′00″W / 42.4391°N 72.8668°W |
2,341 acres (947 ha) | ||
Granville State Forest | Granville | Granville and Tolland 42°03′24″N 72°58′00″W / 42.0566°N 72.9668°W |
2,378 acres (962 ha) | |
Heath | Heath and Colrain 42°43′48″N 72°47′21″W / 42.7299°N 72.7892°W |
4,465 acres (1,807 ha) | ||
Harold Parker State Forest | North Andover | North Andover. Andover, Middleton and North Reading 42°36′59″N 71°04′35″W / 42.6165°N 71.0765°W |
3,148 acres (1,274 ha) | |
Hubbardston | Hubbardston and Phillipston 42°30′35″N 72°02′42″W / 42.5098°N 72.0449°W |
1,369 acres (554 ha) | ||
Huntington | Huntington, Montgomery and Westhampton 42°15′24″N 72°50′18″W / 42.2566°N 72.8383°W |
885 acres (358 ha) | ||
Groton | Groton and Pepperell 42°38′09″N 71°35′15″W / 42.6358°N 71.5876°W |
566.5 acres (229.3 ha) | ||
Kingston | Kingston 41°57′30″N 70°44′54″W / 41.9584°N 70.7482°W |
161 acres (65 ha) | ||
Kenneth Dubuque Memorial State Forest | Hawley | Hawley, Buckland, Plainfield and Windsor 42°33′11″N 72°54′42″W / 42.5531°N 72.9117°W |
7,535 acres (3,049 ha) | |
Chesterfield | Chesterfield 42°21′41″N 72°49′37″W / 42.3613°N 72.8270°W |
92 acres (37 ha) | ||
Lancaster | Lancaster 42°29′37″N 71°41′10″W / 42.4935°N 71.6861°W |
91 acres (37 ha) | ||
Athol | Athol 42°37′12″N 72°12′49″W / 42.6199°N 72.2137°W |
439 acres (178 ha) | ||
Leominster State Forest | Leominster | Leominster, Fitchburg, Princeton, Sterling and Westminster 42°30′58″N 71°51′26″W / 42.5161°N 71.8573°W |
3,253 acres (1,316 ha) | |
Leyden | Leyden 42°42′49″N 72°38′18″W / 42.7135°N 72.6384°W |
60 acres (24 ha) | ||
Lowell-Dracut-Tyngsboro State Forest | Lowell | Lowell, Dracut and Tyngsborough 42°39′42″N 71°21′38″W / 42.6616°N 71.3606°W |
984 acres (398 ha) | |
Ludlow | Ludlow 42°10′46″N 72°25′59″W / 42.1794°N 72.4330°W |
50 acres (20 ha) | ||
Manuel F. Correllus State Forest | Edgartown | Edgartown 41°24′38″N 70°36′14″W / 41.4105°N 70.6038°W |
900 acres (360 ha) | |
Marlborough, Hudson, Stow and Sudbury 42°23′32″N 71°29′22″W / 42.3921°N 71.4894°W |
695 acres (281 ha) | |||
Edgartown and West Tisbury 41°24′00″N 70°38′34″W / 41.3999°N 70.6429°W |
3,321 acres (1,344 ha) | |||
Middlefield | Middlefield and Peru 42°22′48″N 73°02′32″W / 42.3799°N 73.0423°W |
2,902 acres (1,174 ha) | ||
Mohawk Trail State Forest | Charlemont | Charlemont, Florida, Hawley and Savoy 42°38′35″N 72°56′44″W / 42.6430°N 72.9456°W |
6,887 acres (2,787 ha) | |
Monroe State Forest | Monroe | Monroe, Florida and Rowe 42°43′13″N 72°59′30″W / 42.7203°N 72.9918°W |
3,959 acres (1,602 ha) | |
Montague | Montague and Wendell 42°32′48″N 72°29′20″W / 42.5466°N 72.4890°W |
1,346 acres (545 ha) | ||
Mount Grace State Forest | Warwick | Warwick 42°41′37″N 72°20′29″W / 42.6935°N 72.3414°W |
352 acres (142 ha) | |
Sunderland | Sunderland, Leverett and Montague 42°30′12″N 72°31′35″W / 42.5033°N 72.5264°W |
1,553 acres (628 ha) | ||
Mount Washington State Forest | Mount Washington | Mount Washington 42°05′09″N 73°27′54″W / 42.0857°N 73.4650°W |
6,348 acres (2,569 ha) | |
Myles Standish State Forest | Carver | Carver, Duxbury, Plymouth and Wareham 41°51′14″N 70°40′47″W / 41.8538°N 70.6796°W |
12,819 acres (5,188 ha) | |
Nantucket | Nantucket 41°15′54″N 70°04′46″W / 41.2650°N 70.0795°W |
116 acres (47 ha) | ||
North Adams | North Adams and Clarksburg 42°42′33″N 73°05′17″W / 42.7093°N 73.0880°W |
33.5 acres (13.6 ha) | ||
New Salem | New Salem 42°30′46″N 72°21′02″W / 42.5127°N 72.3505°W |
170 acres (69 ha) | ||
North Brookfield | North Brookfield 42°14′44″N 72°02′18″W / 42.2456°N 72.0382°W |
77 acres (31 ha) | ||
Northfield | Northfield and Erving 42°39′00″N 72°23′53″W / 42.6500°N 72.3981°W |
3,879 acres (1,570 ha) | ||
Oakham | Oakham and Rutland 42°19′36″N 72°00′55″W / 42.3267°N 72.0154°W |
830 acres (340 ha) | ||
October Mountain State Forest | Lee | Lee, Becket, Lenox, Pittsfield and Washington 42°20′41″N 73°11′24″W / 42.3447°N 73.1899°W |
15,925 acres (6,445 ha) | |
Orange | Orange 42°35′03″N 72°20′46″W / 42.5842°N 72.3461°W |
453 acres (183 ha) | ||
Otis | Otis, Becket and Sandisfield 42°10′39″N 73°07′09″W / 42.1774°N 73.1193°W |
6,600 acres (2,700 ha) | ||
Otter River State Forest | Templeton | Templeton 42°37′34″N 72°04′45″W / 42.6261°N 72.0791°W |
485 acres (196 ha) | |
Peru | Peru, Middlefield and Worthington 42°23′18″N 73°01′02″W / 42.3883°N 73.0173°W |
2,760 acres (1,120 ha) | ||
Petersham | Petersham and Athol 42°31′26″N 72°12′32″W / 42.5239°N 72.2088°W |
636 acres (257 ha) | ||
Pittsfield State Forest | Pittsfield | Pittsfield, Hancock and Lanesborough 42°30′32″N 73°19′39″W / 42.5088°N 73.3275°W |
10,021 acres (4,055 ha) | |
Rowley | Rowley 42°42′14″N 70°53′28″W / 42.7040°N 70.8912°W |
98 acres (40 ha) | ||
Raynham | Raynham 41°54′55″N 71°00′50″W / 41.9152°N 71.0139°W |
17.3 acres (7.0 ha) | ||
Rehoboth | Rehoboth 41°53′21″N 71°12′35″W / 41.8893°N 71.2098°W |
138 acres (56 ha) | ![]() | |
Richmond | Richmond | 79 acres (32 ha) | ||
Rowe | Rowe | 134 acres (54 ha) | ||
Royalston | Royalston 42°42′48″N 72°13′44″W / 42.7134°N 72.2290°W |
1,362 acres (551 ha) | ||
Sandisfield State Forest | Sandisfield | Sandisfield and New Marlborough 42°06′52″N 73°10′40″W / 42.1145°N 73.1778°W |
6,616 acres (2,677 ha) | |
Savoy Mountain State Forest | Savoy | Savoy, Adams, Florida and North Adams 42°39′10″N 73°03′09″W / 42.6527°N 73.0524°W |
10,435 acres (4,223 ha) | |
Shawme-Crowell State Forest | Sandwich | Sandwich and Bourne 41°45′38″N 70°31′26″W / 41.7605°N 70.5238°W |
579 acres (234 ha) | |
Shelburne | Shelburne 42°35′23″N 72°43′21″W / 42.5898°N 72.7226°W |
52 acres (21 ha) | ||
Shutesbury | Shutesbury and New Salem 42°28′23″N 72°22′45″W / 42.4731°N 72.3792°W |
270 acres (110 ha) | ||
South River State Forest | Conway | Conway 42°33′30″N 72°41′10″W / 42.5583°N 72.6862°W |
591 acres (239 ha) | |
Spencer State Forest | Spencer | Spencer 42°12′52″N 72°00′04″W / 42.2144°N 72.0012°W |
1,122 acres (454 ha) | |
Sutton | Sutton 42°07′25″N 71°43′18″W / 42.1235°N 71.7218°W |
1,085 acres (439 ha) | ||
Williamstown | Williamstown and Hancock 42°42′39″N 73°15′22″W / 42.7107°N 73.2562°W |
2,197 acres (889 ha) | ||
Templeton | Templeton 42°34′39″N 72°05′20″W / 42.5776°N 72.0889°W |
291 acres (118 ha) | ||
Tolland State Forest | Tolland | Tolland, Otis and Blandford 42°08′38″N 73°02′45″W / 42.1438°N 73.0457°W |
6,878 acres (2,783 ha) | |
Townsend | Townsend 42°41′39″N 71°41′51″W / 42.6942°N 71.6976°W |
3,903 acres (1,579 ha) | ||
Upton State Forest | Upton | Upton, Hopedale and Northbridge 42°12′33″N 71°36′33″W / 42.2093°N 71.6093°W |
2,962 acres (1,199 ha) | |
Billerica | Billerica 42°35′10″N 71°18′11″W / 42.5860°N 71.3031°W |
195 acres (79 ha) | ||
Warwick | Warwick, Northfield, Orange and Royalston 42°38′36″N 72°22′08″W / 42.6433°N 72.3690°W |
11,635 acres (4,709 ha) | ||
Wendell State Forest | Wendell | Wendell 42°33′24″N 72°25′48″W / 42.5567°N 72.4300°W |
7,297 acres (2,953 ha) | |
West Bridgewater | West Bridgewater | 217 acres (88 ha) | ||
West Brookfield | West Brookfield 42°15′50″N 72°08′30″W / 42.2640°N 72.1418°W |
140 acres (57 ha) | ||
Westminster | Westminster, Gardner and Hubbardston 42°31′06″N 71°56′38″W / 42.5184°N 71.9439°W |
372 acres (151 ha) | ||
Willard Brook State Forest | Ashby | Ashby, Fitchburg, Lunenburg and Townsend 42°40′19″N 71°46′36″W / 42.6720°N 71.7767°W |
2,475 acres (1,002 ha) | |
Willowdale State Forest | Ipswich | Ipswich, Boxford, Rowley and Topsfield 42°41′01″N 70°53′57″W / 42.6835°N 70.8992°W |
2,325 acres (941 ha) | |
Winchendon | Winchendon 42°37′21″N 72°01′42″W / 42.6226°N 72.0283°W |
712 acres (288 ha) | ||
Windsor State Forest | Windsor | Windsor and Savoy | 1,845 acres (747 ha) | |
Worthington | Worthington | 219 acres (89 ha) | ||
Wrentham | Wrentham and Plainville | 927 acres (375 ha) |
See also[]
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- List of U.S. National Forests
- List of Massachusetts State Parks
References[]
- ^ "Promoting Stewardship of Our Forests for a Safe and Healthy Environment, Economy, and Society" (PDF). 2008 Annual Stakeholder Report. Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation Bureau of Forest Fire Control and Forestry. 2009. p. 2. Retrieved 2009-11-03.
- ^ MassWildlife: Forest Management
- ^ Office of Watershed Management
- ^ "Quabbin Reservoir Watershed System. Section 5: Management Plan Objectives and Methods Land Management Plan 2007-2017" (PDF). Mass. Department of Conservation and Recreation. Retrieved 2009-11-03.
Certified lands in Massachusetts are managed by different agencies of the EOEEA, including the Division of State Parks and Recreation (285,000 acres), the Division of Fisheries and Wildlife (110,000 acres), and the Division of Water Supply Protection (104,000 acres).
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