Outdoors · Category
Wildlife across the Pioneer Valley.
A Mass Audubon sanctuary in the hills above Shelburne Falls, with about five miles of trails and a famous clifftop overlook taking in the Deerfield River valley and Mount Greylock on the horizon.
Shelburne · 5 mi · Moderate
A 1,500-acre pitch pine–scrub oak barrens managed by prescribed fire. Rare habitat in New England and a reliable spot for grasshopper sparrow and whip-poor-will.
Montague · Easy
A 1.2-mile universal-access loop through Connecticut River floodplain meadow and oak woodland, and one of the few fully wheelchair-accessible nature trails in Western Mass.
Hadley · 1.2 mi · Easy