Jr. Phillip Keenan Richard Desmarais Kenneth Dubuque State Forest , consists of 7,822 acres in southwestern Hawley. The forest has four shelters with fireplaces and tables, a large enclosed pavilion at Hallockville Pond and extensive parking facilities.
Streams provide native brook trout fishing.
There are several miles of trails for hiking, horseback riding and snowmobiling, as well as a mile-long nature trail with numbered sites and printed explanation sheets. The forest also offers hunting, boating and a variety of winter activities. Once known as Plantation No. The land was originally sold at auction by the Great and General Court of Massachusetts Bay Colony in June of 1762 to a group headed by Moses Parsons of Middletown, Conn., but he backed out of his agreemnt to organize settlement of the township. The southern quarter of the land that became Hawley was called the Hatfield Equivalent and was owned by people who originally lived in Hatfield.