List of Massachusetts state forests facts for kids
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) 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)), and the Division of Water Supply Protection's Office of Watershed Management (104,000 acres (420 km2)).
Current state forests
| Name | Location (of main entrance) |
Town(s) | Size | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ashburnham State Forest | Ashburnham | Ashburnham 42°41′20″N 71°54′39″W / 42.6889°N 71.9108°W |
2,844 acres (1,151 ha) | |
| Arthur Wharton Swann State Forest | 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 State Forest | 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 State Forest | Billerica | Billerica 42°34′05″N 71°17′53″W / 42.5681°N 71.2981°W |
370 acres (150 ha) | |
| Boxford State Forest | 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 State Forest | 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) |  |
| Bryant Mountain State Forest | Cummington | Cummington 42°29′11″N 72°58′22″W / 42.4865°N 72.9729°W |
636 acres (257 ha) |
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| Buckland State Forest | Buckland | Buckland 42°34′39″N 72°45′17″W / 42.5776°N 72.7547°W |
93 acres (38 ha) |  |
| Cadwell Memorial State Forest | Pelham | Pelham and Belchertown 42°21′46″N 72°26′22″W / 42.3628°N 72.4394°W |
1,203 acres (487 ha) | |
| Carlisle State Forest | 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 Gorge State Forest | Chesterfield | Chesterfield 42°23′17″N 72°52′54″W / 42.3881°N 72.8818°W |
31.4 acres (12.7 ha) | |
| Clarksburg State Forest | 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 State Forest | Conway | Conway and Williamsburg 42°28′46″N 72°42′34″W / 42.4794°N 72.7095°W |
1,874 acres (758 ha) | |
| Cookson State Forest | 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) | |
| Dead Branch State Forest | 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) | |
| East Branch State Forest | Chesterfield | Chesterfield 42°21′46″N 72°52′09″W / 42.3627°N 72.8693°W |
1,232 acres (499 ha) | |
| East Mountain State Forest | 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 State Forest | Florida | Florida and Clarksburg 42°42′01″N 73°03′26″W / 42.7003°N 73.0571°W |
2,135 acres (864 ha) | |
| Franklin State Forest | 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) | |
| Gilbert A. Bliss State Forest | 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) | |
| H.O. Cook State Forest | 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 State Forest | Hubbardston | Hubbardston and Phillipston 42°30′35″N 72°02′42″W / 42.5098°N 72.0449°W |
1,369 acres (554 ha) | |
| Huntington State Forest | Huntington | Huntington, Montgomery and Westhampton 42°15′24″N 72°50′18″W / 42.2566°N 72.8383°W |
885 acres (358 ha) | |
| J. Harry Rich State Forest | 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 State Forest | 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) | |
| Krug Sugarbush State Forest | Chesterfield | Chesterfield 42°21′41″N 72°49′37″W / 42.3613°N 72.8270°W |
92 acres (37 ha) | |
| Lancaster State Forest | Lancaster | Lancaster 42°29′37″N 71°41′10″W / 42.4935°N 71.6861°W |
91 acres (37 ha) | |
| Lawton State Forest | 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 State Forest | 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 State Forest | 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-Sudbury State Forest | Marlborough, Hudson, Stow and Sudbury 42°23′32″N 71°29′22″W / 42.3921°N 71.4894°W |
695 acres (281 ha) | ||
| Martha's Vineyard State Forest | 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 State Forest | 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 State Forest | 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) | |
| Mount Toby State Forest | 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 State Forest | Nantucket | Nantucket 41°15′54″N 70°04′46″W / 41.2650°N 70.0795°W |
116 acres (47 ha) | |
| Natural Bridge State Forest | 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 State Forest | New Salem | New Salem 42°30′46″N 72°21′02″W / 42.5127°N 72.3505°W |
170 acres (69 ha) | |
| North Brookfield State Forest | North Brookfield | North Brookfield 42°14′44″N 72°02′18″W / 42.2456°N 72.0382°W |
77 acres (31 ha) | |
| Northfield State Forest | 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 State Forest | 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 State Forest | Orange | Orange 42°35′03″N 72°20′46″W / 42.5842°N 72.3461°W |
453 acres (183 ha) | |
| Otis State Forest | 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 State Forest | 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 State Forest | 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) | |
| Prospect Hill State Forest | Rowley | Rowley 42°42′14″N 70°53′28″W / 42.7040°N 70.8912°W |
98 acres (40 ha) | |
| Raynham State Forest | Raynham | Raynham 41°54′55″N 71°00′50″W / 41.9152°N 71.0139°W |
17.3 acres (7.0 ha) | |
| Rehoboth State Forest | Rehoboth | Rehoboth 41°53′21″N 71°12′35″W / 41.8893°N 71.2098°W |
138 acres (56 ha) |  |
| Richmond State Forest | Richmond | Richmond | 79 acres (32 ha) | |
| Rowe State Forest | Rowe | Rowe | 134 acres (54 ha) | |
| Royalston State Forest | 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 State Forest | Shelburne | Shelburne 42°35′23″N 72°43′21″W / 42.5898°N 72.7226°W |
52 acres (21 ha) | |
| Shutesbury State Forest | 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 State Forest | Sutton | Sutton 42°07′25″N 71°43′18″W / 42.1235°N 71.7218°W |
1,085 acres (439 ha) | |
| Taconic Trail State Forest | Williamstown | Williamstown and Hancock 42°42′39″N 73°15′22″W / 42.7107°N 73.2562°W |
2,197 acres (889 ha) | |
| Templeton State Forest | 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 State Forest | 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) | |
| Warren H. Manning State Forest | Billerica | Billerica 42°35′10″N 71°18′11″W / 42.5860°N 71.3031°W |
195 acres (79 ha) | |
| Warwick State Forest | 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 State Forest | West Bridgewater | West Bridgewater | 217 acres (88 ha) | |
| West Brookfield State Forest | West Brookfield | West Brookfield 42°15′50″N 72°08′30″W / 42.2640°N 72.1418°W |
140 acres (57 ha) | |
| Westminster State Forest | 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 State Forest | 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 State Forest | Worthington | Worthington | 219 acres (89 ha) | |
| Wrentham State Forest | Wrentham | Wrentham and Plainville | 927 acres (375 ha) |
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