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Roosevelt

Note: Hunting is prohibited on this property due to restrictions placed prior to BNRC ownership.

Forest and wetland in an ecologically rich corner of the Berkshires.

Highlights

  • Washington, MA
  • ​​​​​​​Difficulty: ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Difficult, ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​No maintained trails
  • ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Size: ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​106 acres
  • Special features: Unmarked wood roads, pretty hardwood forest

Difficulty

This land, and all of the present-day Berkshires, are the ancestral homeland of the Mohican people, who were forcibly displaced to Wisconsin by European colonization. These lands continue to be of great significance to the Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican Nation today. To learn more, visit mohican.com.

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      GPS

      • ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Center of Property:  ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Google Maps​​​​​​​ | 42.3503, -73.0742

      Parking

      This reserve does not have parking or maintained trails. The best access to the property is from Middlefield Road, Washington.

      Popular with neighbors, not a likely destination for those from afar, this reserve features maturing forests adjacent to a protected wetland and The Nature Conservancy properties. No marked trails.