Hugg-Thomas Wildlife Management Area (WMA)
Forsythe Road, Sykesville, Maryland 21784
Amenities: Parking area and informational board. Picnic table. No facilities. Sykesville, across the river, has a visitor center with facilities, as well as several restaurants.
Handicapped Access: Good birding from level parking area and across the road around outbuildings. The field area on the north side is generally level. Other trails have moderate grades, becoming steeper on the hillsides.
Special Attractions: An interesting mix of mature woods with a healthy understory, fields, streams and some manmade ponds makes Hugg-Thomas WMA an attractive birding destination.
Size: Several hundred acres. (The Maryland Park Service includes Hugg-Thomas on the Patapsco Valley State Park trails map.)
Habitat: Mature upland deciduous forest with healthy understory, extensive fields and hedgerows, small streams, wetland areas and ponds. Lawn area around the parking lot and across the road around outbuildings and retention pond.
Trails/Paths: Trails are a network of dirt roads, trails, and grassy swaths cut into the fields and forest.
Compiler: Scott Berglund
