Forests For Us Trails Listing
Town and Community Forest Trails Listing
New England’s town and community forests are rich in cultural significance and valuable natural resources.
Town and community forests as well as shared conservation lands are distinctive, diverse, and delightful. They provide a stable environment for a wide variety of fauna, flora, fungi, wetlands, and waters. For animal enjoyment, they provide a healthy habitat for amphibians, birds, fish, insects, mammals, reptiles, and many other forms of life.
Since the 1630s, the concept for a New England town or municipal forest was developed and expanded from publicly-owned forested land. In its first instances, the land was used for the community’s good, most notably for church initiatives and schooling.
Whether it be a town forest, communal forest, community forest, municipal forest, or similar type of conservation land, the intent is the same: community-owned common land, managed locally, providing sustainable forestry and natural resource management, for the public good.
The New England map provides a listing for the 41 hiking locations organized by state:
- Maine: 7 hikes
- Massachusetts: 9 hikes
- New Hampshire: 16 hikes
- Vermont: 9 hikes
Click here to download the Forests For Us hiking trail listing by location.
