Wildlife Sanctuaries List

Mass Audubon’s wildlife sanctuary network includes approximately 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.

Wildlife Sanctuaries to Explore 

Names with * indicate sanctuaries with a staffed nature center or museum.

Allens Pond* South Dartmouth	Arcadia* Easthampton & Northampton	Ashumet Holly East Falmouth
Attleboro Springs Attleboro	Barnstable Great Marsh Barnstable	Blue Hills Trailside Museum* Milton
Boston Nature Center* Mattapan	Broad Meadow Brook* Worcester	Broadmoor* Natick
Burncoat Pond Spencer	Canoe Meadows Pittsfield	Conway Hills Conway
Cook's Canyon Barre	Daniel Webster Marshfield	Drumlin Farm* Lincoln
Eagle Lake Holden	Eastern Point Gloucester	Endicott Wenham
Felix Neck* Edgartown	Flat Rock Fitchburg	Graves Farm Williamsburg
Great Neck  Wareham	Habitat* Belmont	High Ledges Shelburne
Ipswich River* Topsfield	Joppa Flats* Newburyport	Kettle Island Manchester-by-the-Sea
Lake Wampanoag Gardner	Laughing Brook Hampden	Lime Kiln Farm Sheffield
Lincoln Woods Leominster	Long Pasture* Barnstable	Lynes Woods Westhampton
Marblehead Neck Marblehead	Moose Hill* Sharon	Museum of American Bird Art* Canton
Nahant Thicket Nahant	Nashoba Brook Westford	North Hill Marsh Duxbury
North River* Marshfield	Oak Knoll* Attleboro	Pierpont Meadow Dudley
Pleasant Valley* Lenox	Poor Farm Hill New Salem	Richardson Brook Tolland
Road's End Worthington	Rocky Hill Groton	Rough Meadows Rowley
Rutland Brook Petersham	Sampsons Island Barnstable	Sesachacha Heathlands Nantucket
Skunknett River Barnstable	Stony Brook* Norfolk	Tidmarsh Plymouth
Wachusett Meadow* Princeton	Waseeka Hopkinton	Wellfleet Bay* South Wellfleet
West Mountain Plainfield	Wildwood Camp Rindge, NH

Additional Wildlife Sanctuaries

Our other wildlife sanctuaries are conserved lands that are ecologically managed and monitored, but not yet prepared for the public to visit.

Annisquam Salt Marsh Gloucester	Assonet Cedar Swamp Lakeville	Cedar Pond Wenham
Cheshire Pond Ashburnham	Cold Brook Otis	Cotuit Bay Barnstable
Cromeset Neck Wareham	Cuttyhunk Thicket Gosnold	Edgartown Great Pond Edgartown
Egg Island Shoal Barnstable	Elm Hill North Brookfield & Brookfield	Farrar Pond Lincoln
Fish Brook Boxford	Fresh Pond Dennis	Gunning Island Westport
House Island Manchester-by-the-Sea	Indian Trail Barnstable	Laurel Woods Holden
Little Cedar Swamp Lakeville & Freetown	Little Pine Island Westport	Lost Farm Nantucket
Maraspin Creek Barnstable	Mark’s Cove Marsh Wareham	Norman’s Woe Gloucester
Norwell Marsh Norwell	Norwood Mills Rockport	Old Baldy Mountain Otis
Onset Bluff Wareham	Outermost House Eastham	Pine Island Marshfield
Popponesset Spit Mashpee & Barnstable	Rendezvous Salt Marsh Barnstable	Sesuit Marsh Dennis
Smith’s Point Nantucket	Straitsmouth Island Rockport	Stump Brook Halifax
Tern Island Chatham	Tilden Farm Marshfield	Tilden Island Marshfield
Tracy Brook Richmond	Ward’s Rock Fairhaven	Weld Pond Dedham
West Branch Heath	Whetstone Wood Wendell