The primary purposes of Saratoga Sand Plains Wildlife Management Area (WMA) are for wildlife management, wildlife habitat management, and wildlife-dependent recreation. This WMA is a matrix of 1,000 acres of state lands on several separate parcels. The majority of the acreage is in two contiguous parcels - Camp Saratoga (6.0 miles of trail) and the Old Gick Farm (1.9 miles of trail) - that lie east of the Northway, west of Route 50, and south of Ballard Road. There is a wildlife viewing platform on the Old Gick Trail 0.5 miles from the trailhead. There are two additional parcels located off nearby Colebrook Road. A number of habitats and natural communities are found in the Saratoga Sand Plains, including deep water wetlands, rare pine barren vernal ponds, ephemeral wetlands in open areas, and oak-pine savannah - which consists of grass and wildflower meadows with scattered oak and pitch pine trees. Saratoga Sand Plains is associated with the Wilton Wildlife Preserve & Park Study Area and is located within a state-designated Priority Conservation Area and the state and federally-designated Karner blue butterfly recovery areas. DEC works closely with its partners - Wilton Wildlife Preserve and Park, The Nature Conservancy, Town of Wilton, Town of Northumberland and Saratoga County - to manage these lands. Visit the Wilton Wildlife Preserve and Park web site at www.wiltonpreserve.org (leaves DEC website).