Halfmoon Cove Wildlife Management Area (WMA) is located in the town of Colchester. This WMA is a mix of floodplain forest and emergent marsh framing an oxbow of the Winooski River. Its 294 acres stretch along the eastern/northern bank of the river west of Route 127. There is a parking lot and small boat access for the Winooski River on the west side of Route 127, just north of the Heineberg Bridge. There is limited parking at the end of Holbrook Court which provides foot access down a steep bank to the cove itself. Hunting and trapping are allowed. Firearms are restricted to shotgun only by the town of Colchester. Halfmoon Cove itself is an oxbow of the Winooski River, which is now completely cut off from the river. As a result, it is now filling in with mats of cattails and other emergent vegetation. Between the cove and the river are silver maple-sensitive fern and silver maple-ostrich fern riverine floodplain forests. There is an alder swamp and shallow emergent marsh. This sheltered cove and its surrounding woodland are surprisingly pristine, considering they are so near urban development. Common tree species are red oak, red maple, white pine, red and white cedars, cottonwood, pitch pine and willow species. There are many snags that are useful to cavity-nesting birds and birds that eat insects living in dead trees. Common wetland plants include water lily, duckweed, cattail and wild rice. Some unusual plants found in the cove are cursed crowfoot, white adder’s mouth and nodding trillium.