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Windsor State Forest
Bikers in Windsor State Forest, October 2009
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Location	Windsor, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States
Coordinates	42°32′27″N 73°00′28″W / 42.54083°N 73.00778°W / 42.54083; -73.00778^[1]
Elevation	1,867 ft (569 m)^[1]
Established	1925^[2]
Governing body	Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation
Website	Windsor State Forest

Windsor State Forest is a state forest in the town of Windsor, Massachusetts, managed by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation. The forest is noted for the Windsor Jambs waterfall, which cascades through a 25-foot-wide (7.6 m) gorge between 80-foot-high (24 m) granite walls.^[3] Forest trails are available for hiking, mountain biking, horseback riding, and cross-country skiing.^[4] The forest's former camping and swimming areas are currently closed but the park's day use area is slated to reopen in the spring of 2021.^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b "Windsor State Forest". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
^ ^a ^b Massachusetts WPA Writers' Project (1941). "State Forests and Parks of Massachusetts: A Recreation Guide". American Guide Series. Boston, Massachusetts: The Department of Conservation. p. 20. Retrieved September 28, 2015.
^ ^a ^b "Windsor State Forest". The Berkshire Web. Retrieved July 26, 2013.
^ ^a ^b "Windsor State Forest". MassParks. Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs. Retrieved July 26, 2013.
^ ^a ^b "Notice: Windsor State Forest" (PDF). Department of Conservation and Recreation. Retrieved September 28, 2015.

External links

Windsor State Forest Department of Conservation and Recreation
Windsor State Forest Map Department of Conservation and Recreation

Protected areas of Massachusetts

Federal

National Historical Parks	Adams Blackstone River Valley Boston Lowell Minute Man New Bedford Whaling
National Historic Sites	Boston African American Frederick Law Olmsted John Fitzgerald Kennedy Longfellow House–Washington's Headquarters Salem Maritime Saugus Iron Works Springfield Armory
Other National Park Service Units	Appalachian National Scenic Trail Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area Cape Cod National Seashore
National Wildlife Refuges	Assabet River Great Meadows Mashpee Massasoit Monomoy Nantucket Nomans Land Oxbow Parker River Silvio O. Conte Thacher Island
Wild and Scenic Rivers	Assabet Concord Sudbury Taunton Westfield
Other Protected Areas	Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve West Hill Dam (USACE)

State Parks

Parks	Alewife Brook Ames Nowell Ashland Bash Bish Falls Blackstone River and Canal Heritage Borderland Boston Harbor Islands Bradley Palmer C. M. Gardner Callahan Castle Island State Park Chicopee Memorial City Square Clarksburg Cochituate Connecticut River Greenway Demarest Lloyd Dighton Rock Dunn Ellisville Harbor Fall River Heritage Gardner Heritage Governor Thomas Dudley Great Brook Farm Halibut Point Hampton Ponds Holyoke Heritage Hopkinton Lake Lorraine Lake Wyola Lawrence Heritage Lowell Heritage Lynn Heritage Massasoit Maudslay Moore Mount Holyoke Range Natural Bridge Nickerson Pearl Hill Pilgrim Quinsigamond Robinson Roxbury Heritage Rutland Skinner South Cape Beach Wahconah Falls Webb Memorial Wells Western Gateway Heritage Whitehall Wompatuck
Reservations	Beaver Brook Belle Isle Marsh Blue Hills Breakheart Charles River Chestnut Hill Cutler Dorchester Shores Elm Bank Fort Phoenix Hammond Pond Hemlock Gorge Horseneck Beach Jug End Lynn Shore Middlesex Fells Mount Everett Mount Greylock Mount Sugarloaf Mount Tom Myles Standish Mystic River Nahant Beach Nantasket Beach Nasketucket Bay Neponset River Pope John Paul II Purgatory Chasm Quincy Quarries Quincy Shore Revere Beach Rumney Marsh Salisbury Beach Sandy Point Scusset Beach Stony Brook Upper Charles River Wachusett Mountain Walden Pond West Island Weymouth Wilson Mountain
Other	Appalachian Trail Ashuwillticook Rail Trail Cape Cod Rail Trail Fort Revere Lake Dennison Recreation Area Lower Neponset River Trail Mass Central Rail Trail - Wayside Nashua River Rail Trail Norwottuck Branch Rail Trail Quabbin Reservoir Southwest Corridor Park Squantum Point Park Streeter Point Recreation Area Sudbury Reservoir Wachusett Reservoir Ware River Watershed Area

State Forests

Wildlife management areas

Wildlife
Management Areas

Wildlife
Sanctuaries

The Nature Conservancy
Black Pond Bog Boat Meadow Francis Newhall Woods Grassy Pond Greene Swamp Halfway Pond Island Hawley Bog Hockomock Swamp Hoft Farm Homer-Watcha Katama Plains McElwain-Olsen Miacomet Moors Reed Brook Roger and Virginia Drury Sandy Neck David H. Smith Preserve and Fire Trail Stacy Mountain Tatkon

Trustees of Reservations

Audubon Society Wildlife Sanctuaries

Other
Concord Land Conservation Trust Harvard Forest Lincoln Land Conservation Trust Lloyd Center for the Environment Lynn Woods Reservation Norcross Wildlife Sanctuary Old Harbor Wildlife Refuge

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-'''Windsor State Forest''' is a state-owned, public recreation area and [[forest]] preserve in the [[New England town|town]] of [[Windsor, Massachusetts]], managed by the [[Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation]]. The forest is noted for the Windsor Jambs waterfall, which cascades through a {{convert|25|ft|m|adj=mid|-wide}} gorge between {{convert|80|ft|m|adj=mid|-high}} granite walls.<ref name=berkshire/> Forest trails are available for hiking, mountain biking, horseback riding, and cross-country skiing.<ref name=dcr/> The forest's former camping and swimming areas are currently closed but the park's day use area is slated to reopen in the spring of 2021.<ref name=dcr2/>
+'''Windsor State Forest''' is a [[state forest]] in the [[New England town|town]] of [[Windsor, Massachusetts]], managed by the [[Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation]]. The forest is noted for the Windsor Jambs waterfall, which cascades through a {{convert|25|ft|m|adj=mid|-wide}} gorge between {{convert|80|ft|m|adj=mid|-high}} granite walls.<ref name=berkshire/> Forest trails are available for hiking, mountain biking, horseback riding, and cross-country skiing.<ref name=dcr/> The forest's former camping and swimming areas are currently closed but the park's day use area is slated to reopen in the spring of 2021.<ref name=dcr2/>
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Revision as of 12:26, 25 September 2022

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