St. Lawrence County Hunting

St. Lawrence County hunting calendar by species

Waterfowl rows follow the duck zones and goose areas that DEC maps across St. Lawrence County; upland and big game rows follow WMUs 6A, 6F, 6C and 6J.

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.

St. Lawrence County tracts open to hunters

St. Lawrence County has 69 listed properties open to hunters, led by Five Ponds and Pepperbox Wildernesses (157,632 acres). Forest Preserve accounts for some 177,689 acres here. Only the listed parks allow hunting, each with its own permit. St. Lawrence County is on the county list of the DEC pheasant release program. Duck hunters can find DEC-mapped waterfowl areas in St. Lawrence County.

• Wilderness areas in St. Lawrence (1)Five Ponds and Pepperbox Wildernesses (157,632 acres*)
• Forest Preserve units (5)Cranberry Lake Complex (25,911 acres), Raquette Boreal Complex (25,638 acres), Bog River Complex (17,058 acres*), Grass River Complex (14,179 acres), Unclassified Forest Preserve parcels (Essex, St. Lawrence, Warren County) (1,742 acres*)
• Conservation easement tracts in St. Lawrence (3)Santa Clara Conservation Easement Tract (71,951 acres*), South Colton Conservation Easement Tract (1,754 acres), Western Lassiter Conservation Easement Tracts (1,335 acres)
• State forests, 38Bombay and Brasher State Forests (22,508 acres*), Wolf Lake State Forest (4,362 acres), Beaver Creek State Forest, St. Lawrence County (3,728 acres), Whiskey Flats State Forest (2,825 acres), South Hammond State Forest (2,086 acres), High Flats State Forest (1,990 acres), Lost Nation State Forest (1,918 acres), Taylor Creek State Forest (1,856 acres), Catherineville State Forest (1,623 acres), Fire-Fall State Forest (1,613 acres), Downerville State Forest (1,443 acres), Bonaparte's Cave State Forest (1,438 acres*), Sodom State Forest (1,424 acres), California Road State Forest (1,414 acres), Whippoorwill Corners State Forest (1,281 acres), Degrasse State Forest (1,181 acres), Cold Spring Brook State Forest (1,151 acres), Lonesome Bay State Forest (1,122 acres), Buckton State Forest (1,092 acres), Trout Lake State Forest (1,086 acres), Greenwood Creek State Forest (1,022 acres), Knapp Station State Forest (1,000 acres), Pleasant Lake State Forest (963 acres), Fort Jackson State Forest (915 acres), Glenmeal State Forest (826 acres), Snow Bowl State Forest (797 acres), West Parishville State Forest (793 acres), Orebed Creek State Forest (791 acres), Silver Hill State Forest (783 acres), Grantville State Forest (775 acres), all 38
• Wild forests, 2 listedAldrich Pond Wild Forest (26,586 acres*), Cranberry Lake Wild Forest (2 acres)
• Wildlife management areas in St. Lawrence (4)Upper and Lower Lakes Wildlife Management Area (8,803 acres), Fish Creek Wildlife Management Area (4,556 acres), Wilson Hill Wildlife Management Area (4,036 acres), Swallow Bluffs Wildlife Management Area (55 acres)
• State parks with hunting, 6Coles Creek State Park (1,731 acres), Higley Flow State Park (1,116 acres), Croil Island State Park (723 acres), Galop Island State Park (708 acres), Jacques Cartier State Park (459 acres), Cedar Island State Park (8 acres)
• Primitive areas, 1 hereDead Creek Primitive Area (1,154 acres)
• Forest Preserve detached parcels, 9Louisville Forest Preserve Detached Parcel (332 acres), St. Lawrence Forest Preserve Detached Parcel (289 acres), Pitcairn Forest Preserve Detached Parcel (174 acres*), De Peyster Forest Preserve Detached Parcel (81 acres), Indian Meadows Forest Preserve Detached Parcel (45 acres), Lisbon Forest Preserve Detached Parcel (34 acres), Gouverneur Forest Preserve Detached Parcel (17 acres), Waddington Forest Preserve Detached Parcel (10 acres), Dekalb Forest Preserve Detached Parcel

* Acres cover every county the tract touches.

DEC Pheasant Release Sites (statewide program) · DEC Places to Hunt Waterfowl (statewide map)

Closed to hunting: Black Lake Boat Launch, Brandy Brook Boat Launch, Wilson Hill Boat Launch, Eel Weir State Park, Robert Moses State Park and St. Lawrence State Park.

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

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.

St. Lawrence County towns plus the counties that touch it

Each St. Lawrence County town page carries legal shooting light for that spot.

• Cantonseat · 6,957 townspeople · 10,494 ac public, 10-mi ring
• Brasher Falls28,606 ac public, 10-mi ring
• Cranberry Lake94,643 ac public, 10-mi ring
• Edwards15,624 ac public, 10-mi ring
• Hammond282 townspeople · 9,569 ac public, 10-mi ring
• Morristown5,157 ac public, 10-mi ring
• Parishville20,100 ac public, 10-mi ring
• Rensselaer Falls319 townspeople · 9,951 ac public, 10-mi ring
• Star Lake90,185 ac public, 10-mi ring
• Waddington926 townspeople · 5,410 ac public, 10-mi ring
• Winthrop27,893 ac public, 10-mi ring

St. Lawrence County borders 5 New York counties.

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