Massachusetts, with forests covering 3060000acres (59%) of its land area, administers more than 500000acres[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 (285000acres), Division of Fisheries and Wildlife (MassWildlife) (140000acres),[2] and the Division of Water Supply Protection's Office of Watershed Management[3] (104000acres).[4]
| Name | Location | Town(s) | Size | Image | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ashburnham State Forest | Ashburnham | Ashburnham | 2844acres | ||
| Arthur Wharton Swann State Forest | Great Barrington and Monterey | 850acres | |||
| Barnstable State Forest | Barnstable | Barnstable | 54acres | ||
| Beartown State Forest | Monterey | Monterey, Great Barrington, Lee, Otis, Stockbridge and Tyringham | 11204acres | ||
| Becket State Forest | Becket | Becket | 1311acres | ||
| Berkley State Forest | Berkley | Berkley | 5.9acres | ||
| Billerica State Forest | Billerica | Billerica | 370acres | ||
| Boxford State Forest | Boxford | Boxford, Middleton, and North Andover | 1045acres | ||
| Bridgewater State Forest | Bridgewater | Bridgewater | 58.5acres | ||
| Brimfield State Forest | Brimfield | Brimfield, Monson and Wales | 4941acres | ||
| Bryant Mountain State Forest | Cummington | Cummington | 636acres | ||
| Buckland State Forest | Buckland | Buckland | 93acres | ||
| Cadwell Memorial State Forest | Pelham | Pelham and Belchertown | 1203acres | ||
| Carlisle State Forest | Carlisle | Carlisle | 23acres | ||
| Catamount State Forest | Colrain | Colrain and Charlemont | 1474acres | ||
| Chester-Blandford State Forest | Chester | Chester and Blandford | 2490acres | ||
| Chesterfield Gorge State Forest | Chesterfield | Chesterfield | 31.4acres | ||
| Clarksburg State Forest | Clarksburg | Clarksburg and North Adams | 3668acres | ||
| Conway State Forest | Conway | Conway and Williamsburg | 1874acres | ||
| Cookson State Forest | New Marlborough and Sandisfield | 2798acres | |||
| D.A.R. State Forest | Goshen | Goshen, Ashfield and Williamsburg | 2095acres | ||
| Dead Branch State Forest | Chesterfield | Chesterfield and Westhampton | 482acres | ||
| Douglas State Forest | Douglas | Douglas, Oxford and Webster | 5754acres | ||
| East Branch State Forest | Chesterfield | Chesterfield | 1232acres | ||
| East Mountain State Forest | Great Barrington | Great Barrington, New Marlborough and Sheffield | 1867acres | ||
| Erving State Forest | Erving | Erving and Orange | 2261acres | ||
| F. Gilbert Hills State Forest | Foxboro | Foxboro and Wrentham | 1040acres | ||
| Federated Women's Club State Forest | Petersham | Petersham | 469acres | ||
| Florida State Forest | Florida | Florida and Clarksburg | 2135acres | ||
| Franklin State Forest | Franklin | Franklin and Wrentham | 914acres | ||
| Freetown-Fall River State Forest | Freetown | Freetown, Fall River and Lakeville | 6052acres | ||
| Georgetown-Rowley State Forest | Georgetown | Georgetown, Rowley and Boxford | 993acres | ||
| Gilbert A. Bliss State Forest | Chesterfield | Chesterfield and Cummington | 2341acres | ||
| Granville State Forest | Granville | Granville and Tolland | 2378acres | ||
| H.O. Cook State Forest | Heath | Heath and Colrain | 4465acres | ||
| Harold Parker State Forest | North Andover | North Andover. Andover, Middleton and North Reading | 3148acres | ||
| Hubbardston State Forest | Hubbardston | Hubbardston and Phillipston | 1369acres | ||
| Huntington State Forest | Huntington | Huntington, Montgomery and Westhampton | 885acres | ||
| J. Harry Rich State Forest | Groton | Groton and Pepperell | 566.5acres | ||
| Kingston State Forest | Kingston | Kingston | 161acres | ||
| Kenneth Dubuque Memorial State Forest | Hawley | Hawley, Buckland, Plainfield and Windsor | 7535acres | ||
| Krug Sugarbush State Forest | Chesterfield | Chesterfield | 92acres | ||
| Lancaster State Forest | Lancaster | Lancaster | 91acres | ||
| Lawton State Forest | Athol | Athol | 439acres | ||
| Leominster State Forest | Leominster | Leominster, Fitchburg, Princeton, Sterling and Westminster | 3253acres | ||
| Leyden State Forest | Leyden | Leyden | 60acres | ||
| Lowell-Dracut-Tyngsboro State Forest | Lowell | Lowell, Dracut and Tyngsborough | 984acres | ||
| Ludlow State Forest | Ludlow | Ludlow | 50acres | ||
| Manuel F. Correllus State Forest | Edgartown | Edgartown | 900acres | ||
| Marlborough-Sudbury State Forest | Marlborough, Hudson, Stow and Sudbury | 695acres | |||
| Martha's Vineyard State Forest | Edgartown and West Tisbury | 3321acres | |||
| Middlefield State Forest | Middlefield | Middlefield and Peru | 2902acres | ||
| Mohawk Trail State Forest | Charlemont | Charlemont, Florida, Hawley and Savoy | 6887acres | ||
| Monroe State Forest | Monroe | Monroe, Florida and Rowe | 3959acres | ||
| Montague State Forest | Montague | Montague and Wendell | 1346acres | ||
| Mount Grace State Forest | Warwick | Warwick | 352acres | ||
| Mount Toby State Forest | Sunderland | Sunderland, Leverett and Montague | 1553acres | ||
| Mount Washington State Forest | Mount Washington | Mount Washington | 6348acres | ||
| Myles Standish State Forest | Carver | Carver, Duxbury, Plymouth and Wareham | 12819acres | ||
| Nantucket State Forest | Nantucket | Nantucket | 116acres | ||
| Natural Bridge State Forest | North Adams | North Adams and Clarksburg | 33.5acres | ||
| New Salem State Forest | New Salem | New Salem | 170acres | ||
| North Brookfield State Forest | North Brookfield | North Brookfield | 77acres | ||
| Northfield State Forest | Northfield | Northfield and Erving | 3879acres | ||
| Oakham State Forest | Oakham | Oakham and Rutland | 830acres | ||
| October Mountain State Forest | Lee | Lee, Becket, Lenox, Pittsfield and Washington | 15925acres | ||
| Orange State Forest | Orange | Orange | 453acres | ||
| Otis State Forest | Otis | Otis, Becket and Sandisfield | 6600acres | ||
| Otter River State Forest | Templeton | Templeton | 485acres | ||
| Peru State Forest | Peru | Peru, Middlefield and Worthington | 2760acres | ||
| Petersham State Forest | Petersham | Petersham and Athol | 636acres | ||
| Pittsfield State Forest | Pittsfield | Pittsfield, Hancock and Lanesborough | 10021acres | ||
| Prospect Hill State Forest | Rowley | Rowley | 98acres | ||
| Raynham State Forest | Raynham | Raynham | 17.3acres | ||
| Rehoboth State Forest | Rehoboth | Rehoboth | 138acres | ||
| Richmond State Forest | Richmond | Richmond | 79acres | ||
| Rowe State Forest | Rowe | Rowe | 134acres | ||
| Royalston State Forest | Royalston | Royalston | 1362acres | ||
| Sandisfield State Forest | Sandisfield | Sandisfield and New Marlborough | 6616acres | ||
| Savoy Mountain State Forest | Savoy | Savoy, Adams, Florida and North Adams | 10435acres | ||
| Shawme-Crowell State Forest | Sandwich | Sandwich and Bourne | 579acres | ||
| Shelburne State Forest | Shelburne | Shelburne | 52acres | ||
| Shutesbury State Forest | Shutesbury | Shutesbury and New Salem | 270acres | ||
| South River State Forest | Conway | Conway | 591acres | ||
| Spencer State Forest | Spencer | Spencer | 1122acres | ||
| Sutton State Forest | Sutton | Sutton | 1085acres | ||
| Taconic Trail State Forest | Williamstown | Williamstown and Hancock | 2197acres | ||
| Templeton State Forest | Templeton | Templeton | 291acres | ||
| Tolland State Forest | Tolland | Tolland, Otis and Blandford | 6878acres | ||
| Townsend State Forest | Townsend | Townsend | 3903acres | ||
| Upton State Forest | Upton | Upton, Hopedale and Northbridge | 2962acres | ||
| Warren H. Manning State Forest | Billerica | Billerica | 195acres | ||
| Warwick State Forest | Warwick | Warwick, Northfield, Orange and Royalston | 11635acres | ||
| Wendell State Forest | Wendell | Wendell | 7297acres | ||
| West Bridgewater State Forest | West Bridgewater | West Bridgewater | 217acres | ||
| West Brookfield State Forest | West Brookfield | West Brookfield | 140acres | ||
| Westminster State Forest | Westminster | Westminster, Gardner and Hubbardston | 372acres | ||
| Willard Brook State Forest | Ashby | Ashby, Fitchburg, Lunenburg and Townsend | 2475acres | ||
| Willowdale State Forest | Ipswich | Ipswich, Boxford, Rowley and Topsfield | 2325acres | ||
| Winchendon State Forest | Winchendon | Winchendon | 712acres | ||
| Windsor State Forest | Windsor | Windsor and Savoy | 1845acres | ||
| Worthington State Forest | Worthington | Worthington | 219acres | ||
| Wrentham State Forest | Wrentham | Wrentham and Plainville | 927acres |