Description: This large state forest is made up of northern hardwoods: sugar maple, yellow birch, beech, and balsam fir. Streams, wetlands, and ponds dot the forest.

Wildlife to Watch: Watch for moose tracks and scat near the pond. Coyotes, bears, snowshoe hares, and a variety of other animals live here. Look for wood ducks and hooded mergansers on the pond. In the late spring and summer, the sounds of songbirds fill the woods; listen for ovenbirds, wood thrushes, yellow-throated and red-eyed vireos, rose-breasted grosbeaks, black-throated blue and black-throated green warblers, and scarlet tanagers.

Other Activities: An easy half-mile trail leads from the wayside area to scenic Butterfield Pond.

Ownership: DRED-Division of Forests and Lands
Size: 6675 acres
Closest Town: Springfield

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Main Photo Credit: Black-throated Green Warbler by Andy Reago & Chrissy McClarren [CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

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Gile State Forest-Gardner Memorial Wayside

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Gile State Forest-Gardner Memorial Wayside

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