Betty Robinson likens Mansfield Hollow State Park to the elephant in the fable about six blind men who describe the beast: One’s experience of the park depends on which part of it is used.

While tramping along an evergreen-lined trail in Mansfield Hollow State Park one frosty morning last week, Maggie Jones, Phil Plouffe and I skidded to a halt. “Uh-oh,” Phil said, eyes fixed on ...

Visitors traveling north along the trail from Mansfield Hollow State Park reach the south bridge first, the more dramatic of the two bridges.

Feb. 8—While tramping along an evergreen-lined trail in Mansfield Hollow State Park one frosty morning last week, Maggie Jones, Phil Plouffe and I skidded to a halt. "Uh-oh," Phil said, eyes ...

Two of the areas include James L. Goodwin State Forest in Hampton and Mansfield Hollow State Park in Mansfield. Prescribed burns are an important land management practice, and DEEP administers ...

The morning of Feb. 10 was bright and sunny, with temperatures rising into the 30s and heading for the 40s. As I pulled into the parking area at Mansfield Hollow Lake and State Park, I found a dozen ...

At Mansfield Hollow State Park in Mansfield, the Fenton, Mount Hope and Natchaug rivers meet at the swamp once known as “Turnip Meadows,” now the Mansfield Hollow reservoir, created in the early 1950s ...