Vermont

Stretching across southwestern and central Vermont in two vast districts along the spine of the Green Mountains. Towering sugar maple, yellow birch, and beech ridges interspersed with hemlock gorges and beaver meadows provide classic big-woods tracking for whitetail deer, black bear, wild turkey, and snowshoe hare.

Located in Addison and Panton in the fertile Champlain Valley. Features a winding slow-moving creek, managed waterfowl impoundments, and agricultural fields that attract tens of thousands of migrating snow geese, Canada geese, and mallards each autumn, offering premier regulated blind hunting.

West Mountain WMA (23,000 acres) in Maidstone, Ferdinand, and Brunswick is Vermont's largest WMA, featuring remote spruce-fir boreal wilderness, black spruce bogs, and kettle ponds. Renowned for ruffed grouse, snowshoe hare, moose, and wild black bear hunting.

Mount Mansfield State Forest (44,000 acres) is Vermont's largest contiguous state forest, encompassing rugged alpine terrain and deep northern hardwood coves. Outstanding public hunting for black bear over high-elevation beech ridges, mountain whitetails, and ruffed grouse.

Arthur Davis WMA (7,800 acres) in Reading and Windsor features high-ridge oak and beech timber, abandoned orchards, and beaver ponds. Plymsbury WMA (1,900 acres) in Plymouth provides steep mountain terrain supporting healthy whitetail deer and spring gobbler populations.