Calvin Coolidge State Forest

Coordinates: 43°35′00″N 72°55′43″W / 43.5834°N 72.9285°W

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Calvin Coolidge State Forest

Type	State forest
Location	Mendon, Rutland County, Vermont
Coordinates	43°35′00″N 72°55′43″W / 43.5834°N 72.9285°W / 43.5834; -72.9285
Area	22,564 acres (91.31 km²)
Created	1925
Operated by	Vermont Department of Forests, Parks, and Recreation
Website	Website

Calvin Coolidge State Forest, also known as Coolidge State Forest, covers 22,564 acres (91.31 km²) in two parts in Rutland and Windsor counties in Vermont. The West portion cover 17,259 acres (69.84 km²) in Killington, Mendon, Plymouth and Shrewsbury in both counties.^[1] The East portion cover 5,305 acres (21.47 km²) in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Reading, and Woodstock in Windsor County.^[2]

The forest is managed by the Vermont Department of Forests, Parks, and Recreation for timber resources, wildlife habitat, and recreational activities.

Activities in the forest include camping, hiking, picnicking, fishing, hunting, trapping, snowshoeing, cross-country skiing and snowmobiling.^[1]

East section

Coolidge State Park in the East section in Plymouth is the most developed and primary recreational center for the forest, and features a campground. The park's facilities were built by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in the 1930s, and are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.^[3]

There are several remote lean-tos, primitive camping areas, and gold panning.^[2] The Vermont Association of Snow Travelers (VAST) grooms an extensive network of road and trails for snowmobiling in the winter. There are also hunting opportunities for game species such as deer, moose, and ruffed grouse.

The CCC built many of the roads in the East section.^[2]

In the East, the forests are typically hardwood and often steep, and are actively managed for timber.

West

The West section features many hiking trails, including the Shrewsbury Peak Trail, Tinker Brook Trail, Bucklin Trail and portions of the Long Trail and Appalachian Trail.^[1]^[4] There are trails for snowmobiling and cross-country skiing, as well as snowshoeing. Hunting, fishing and trapping occurs in this section.

The West section of Calvin Coolidge State Forest is located along the Green Mountains ridgeline and features many high forested mountain peaks, including Killington Peak, Little Killington, Shrewsbury, Saltash, Mendon and Smith peaks.

There are three designated Vermont State Natural Areas – Tinker Brook Natural Area (106 acres) in Plymouth, Shrewsbury Peak Natural Area (100 acres) in Shrewsbury, and Mendon Peak Natural Area (90 acres in the state-owned portion above 3200 feet) in Mendon.^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Coolidge State Forest, West". Vermont Dept. of Forests, Parks and Recreation. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Coolidge State Forest, East". Vermont Dept. of Forests, Parks and Recreation. Archived from the original on 30 January 2017. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
^ Amy Lord (2002). "NRHP nomination for Coolidge State Park". National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-06-19.
^ "Coolidge State Forest Summer Recreation". Trail Finder. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
^ "Vermont Natural Areas". Vermont State Lands Administration. Retrieved 25 July 2016.^{[permanent dead link‍]}

External links

Official website

Protected areas of Vermont

Federal

National Historical Park	Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park
National Wildlife Refuges	Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge Silvio O. Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge
National Forest	Green Mountain National Forest
National Wilderness Areas	Big Branch Wilderness Breadloaf Wilderness Bristol Cliffs Wilderness George D. Aiken Wilderness Glastenbury Wilderness Joseph Battell Wilderness Lye Brook Wilderness Peru Peak Wilderness
National Recreation Areas	Moosalamoo National Recreation Area Robert T. Stafford White Rocks National Recreation Area
National Trails	Appalachian Trail North Country Trail
National Wild and Scenic Rivers	Missisquoi River Trout River

State

State Parks	Alburgh Dunes Allis Big Deer Bomoseen Boulder Beach Branbury Brighton Burton Island Button Bay Camel's Hump Camp Plymouth Coolidge Crystal Lake D.A.R. D & H Rail Trail Elmore Emerald Lake Fort Dummer Gifford Woods Grand Isle Green River Reservoir Half Moon Pond Hazen's Notch Jamaica Kamp Kill Kare Kettle Pond Kingsland Bay Knight Island Knight Point Lake Carmi Lake Shaftsbury Lake St. Catherine Litte River Lowell Lake Maidstone Molly Stark Molly's Falls Pond Mount Ascutney Mount Philo Muckross New Discovery Niquette Bay North Hero Quechee Ricker Pond Sand Bar Sentinel Rock Seyon Lodge Silver Lake Smugglers' Notch Stillwater Sweet Pond Taconic Mountains Ramble Thetford Hill Townshend Underhill Waterbury Center Wilgus Woodford Woods Island
State Forests	Aitken Arlington Black Turn Brook Boyer Calvin Coolidge Cambridge Camel's Hump Dorand Downer Granville Gulf Reservation Groton Hapgood Jay Jim Jeffords Jones Long Trail Lord Lower Clarendon Gorge Lyndon Mathewson Mollie Beattie Mount Carmel Mount Cushman Mount Mansfield Okemo Proctor-Piper Putnam Roxbury Rupert Thetford Hill Townshend Victory Washington West Rutland William C. Putnam Williams River Willoughby
Natural Areas	Amity Pond Big Falls of the Missisquoi Button Point Cambridge Camel's Hump Campmeeting Point Cascade Falls Daniel's Notch Emerald Lake Fisher-Scott Memorial Pines Gifford Woods Granville Gulf Hamilton Falls Hazen's Notch Highgate Cliffs Kingsland Bay Lake Carmi Bog Lords Hill Lucy Mallary Bugbee Marl Pond and Swamp Mendon Peak Morristown Bog Moss Glen Falls (Granville) Moss Glen Falls (Stowe) Mount Mansfield Peacham Bog Shrewsbury Peak Spectacle Pond Tabletop Mountain Terrible Mountain Tinker Brook Weybridge Cave Willoughby Cliffs Worcester Range

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