List of Wildlife Sanctuaries
Mass Audubon's wildlife sanctuary network includes more than 100 properties across the state. More than half of these sanctuaries are places ready to be explored, with trails, maps, signage, and often nature centers or museums with trained naturalists leading programs.
Ready for Visitors to Explore
Names with * indicate sanctuaries with a staffed nature center or museum. † indicates a Partner Property.
West
Arcadia,* Easthampton & Northampton Central Massachusetts
Broad Meadow Brook,* Worcester North Shore
Eastern Point, Gloucester |
Metro West
Brewster's Woods, Concord BostonBoston Nature Center,* Mattapan Metro South
Blue Hills Trailside Museum,* Milton South East
Allens Pond,* South Dartmouth Cape Cod
Ashumet Holly, East Falmouth Islands
Felix Neck,* Edgartown New HampshireWildwood Camp, Rindge |
Not Ready for Visitors
These additional wildlife sanctuaries are conserved lands that are ecologically managed and monitored, but not yet prepared for the public to visit.
Berkshires & Connecticut River Valley
Brush Valley, Warwick Central Massachusetts
Cheshire Pond, Ashburnham North Shore
Annisquam Salt Marsh, Gloucester Metro West
Farrar Pond, Lincoln |
South East
Assonet Cedar Swamp, Lakeville & Freetown Cape Cod
Cotuit Bay, Barnstable Martha's Vineyard & Nantucket
Edgartown Great Pond, Edgartown |