Simmons Mill Pond Management Area covers approximately 400 acres. The land is dominated by forest cover types (87% 346 acres) comprised of deciduous trees consisting of oaks, red maples and American beech. Freshwater wetlands are abundant throughout the site comprising approximately 82 acres of red maple swamps, shrub swamp and shallow open water impoundments. Forested wetlands (red maple swamp) are dominated by thick growth of red maple trees and a diverse shrub understory of high bush blueberry, winterberry, and azalea. There are five man made ponds or impoundments on the property which add diversity to wetland types. The largest is Simmons Mill Pond (18 acres) with other impoundments ranging in size from 1.1 to 6 acres. Floating leave plants, shallow emergent marsh, aquatic shrub marsh, and pockets of dead woody marsh are present in each of the impoundments, serving as attractive habitats for a variety of fish and wildlife species.