Greene County Hunting

Greene County hunting calendar by species

Waterfowl rows follow the duck zones and goose areas that DEC maps across Greene County; upland and big game rows follow WMUs 3A, 4S, 4R, 4H and 3J.

Federal refuges and Fort Drum run their own permits and dates on top of these.

From the 2026-27 New York Hunting and Trapping Regulations Guide (New York State Department of Environmental Conservation), WMU lists as printed, checked October 27, 2026.

Greene County tracts open to hunters

Greene County has 107 listed properties open to hunters, led by Hunter-West Kill Wilderness (24,549 acres). Forest Preserve accounts for some 78,246 acres here. Carry the free DEP Access Permit on any of the 79 watershed recreation units. Only the listed parks allow hunting, each with its own permit. Greene County is on the county list of the DEC pheasant release program. Duck hunters can find DEC-mapped waterfowl areas in Greene County.

• Wilderness areas in Greene (3)Hunter-West Kill Wilderness (24,549 acres*), Indian Head Wilderness (17,439 acres*), Windham-Blackhead Range Wilderness (17,024 acres)
• Wild forests, 7 listedKaaterskill Wild Forest (8,099 acres*), Phoenicia – Mt. Tobias Wild Forest (7,820 acres*), Shandaken Wild Forest (6,114 acres*), Halcott Mountain Wild Forest (4,934 acres), Rusk Mountain Wild Forest (3,907 acres), Elm Ridge Wild Forest (2,380 acres), Colgate Lake Wild Forest (1,500 acres)
• NYC watershed recreation units, 79 listedBalsam Mountain (NYC DEP Recreation Unit) (853 acres), Scribner Hollow (NYC DEP Recreation Unit) (793 acres), Beech Ridge (NYC DEP Recreation Unit) (784 acres), Patterson Ridge (NYC DEP Recreation Unit) (688 acres), Four Corners (NYC DEP Recreation Unit) (673 acres), Dog Hill (NYC DEP Recreation Unit) (661 acres*), Mink Hollow (NYC DEP Recreation Unit) (644 acres*), Maplecrest (NYC DEP Recreation Unit) (625 acres), Pine Island Mountain (NYC DEP Recreation Unit) (593 acres), Sallys Alley (NYC DEP Recreation Unit) (582 acres*), Halcott Center (NYC DEP Recreation Unit) (507 acres*), Batavia (NYC DEP Recreation Unit) (499 acres), Cozy Hollow (NYC DEP Recreation Unit) (466 acres), Black Dome Valley (NYC DEP Recreation Unit) (442 acres), Huntersfield Creek (NYC DEP Recreation Unit) (422 acres), Jennie Notch (NYC DEP Recreation Unit) (389 acres), Cave Mountain (NYC DEP Recreation Unit) (384 acres), North Ashland (NYC DEP Recreation Unit) (360 acres), Westkill (NYC DEP Recreation Unit) (351 acres), Maben Hill (NYC DEP Recreation Unit) (346 acres), Red Falls (NYC DEP Recreation Unit) (338 acres), Roundtop Mountain (NYC DEP Recreation Unit) (331 acres), Lake Heloise (NYC DEP Recreation Unit) (321 acres), Little Westkill (NYC DEP Recreation Unit) (320 acres), Case Road (NYC DEP Recreation Unit) (314 acres), South Roundtop (NYC DEP Recreation Unit) (302 acres), Brownell Creek (NYC DEP Recreation Unit) (299 acres), Richmond (NYC DEP Recreation Unit) (297 acres), South Jewett (NYC DEP Recreation Unit) (270 acres), Campbell Road (NYC DEP Recreation Unit) (245 acres), all 79
• State forests, 7Bearpen Mountain State Forest (2,840 acres*), South Mountain State Forest (1,499 acres*), Huntersfield State Forest (1,327 acres*), Ashland Pinnacle State Forest (955 acres*), Mount Hayden State Forest (844 acres), Mount Pisgah State Forest (652 acres*), Cairo Lockwood State Forest (48 acres)
• Forest Preserve units (1)Unclassified Forest Preserve parcels (Delaware, Essex, Franklin, Greene, Sullivan, Ulster, Warren County) (2,365 acres*)
• State parks with hunting, 1Schodack Island State Park (1,179 acres*)
• Forest Preserve detached parcels, 6Greene County Forest Preserve Detached Parcel (450 acres*), Greenville Forest Preserve Detached Parcel (102 acres), Athens Forest Preserve Detached Parcel (81 acres), New Baltimore Forest Preserve Detached Parcel (78 acres), Coxsackie Forest Preserve Detached Parcel (33 acres), Catskill Forest Preserve Detached Parcel (23 acres)
• Wildlife management areas in Greene (3)Vosburgh Swamp Wildlife Management Area (311 acres), Great Vly Wildlife Management Area (202 acres*), Seward's Island (72 acres*)

* Acres cover every county the tract touches.

NYC DEP Watershed Recreation Lands · DEC Pheasant Release Sites (statewide program) · DEC Places to Hunt Waterfowl (statewide map)

Closed to hunting: Batavia Kill (NYC DEP recreation unit), Blodgett Road (NYC DEP recreation unit), Camp Meadowbrook (NYC DEP recreation unit), Devasego Park Day Use Area (NYC DEP recreation unit), Glen Road (NYC DEP recreation unit), Lanesville (NYC DEP recreation unit), Maplecrest Road (NYC DEP recreation unit) and Mill Hollow (NYC DEP recreation unit) and 11 more.

Land finder · All WMAs · State forest pages · Forest Preserve pages · Watershed units

Tracts from our New York land list (DEC property pages, OPRHP, USFWS, USFS and DEP records); acres by kind from the NYS DEC Lands layer and the USFS ownership layer (GIS measures, not official acreages). Checked October 27, 2026.

Greene County towns plus the counties that touch it

Use a Greene County town page to see the closest public land by distance.

• Catskillseat · 3,723 townspeople · 6,441 ac public, 10-mi ring
• Haines Falls59,768 ac public, 10-mi ring
• Hunter409 townspeople · 79,112 ac public, 10-mi ring
• Palenville46,141 ac public, 10-mi ring
• Tannersville565 townspeople · 66,878 ac public, 10-mi ring
• West Kill54,676 ac public, 10-mi ring
• Windham32,259 ac public, 10-mi ring

Greene County borders 6 New York counties.

Towns from the Census 2024 Gazetteer and Vintage 2024 estimates; adjacency from the Census county adjacency file.