For Public Land Locations or Possible Public Opportunities:

• State Forest Lands: (none).
• State Game and Wildlife Areas:
  • Edmore State Game Area.
  • Flat River State Game Area.
  • Langston State Game Area.
  • Stanton State Game Area.
  • Vestaburg State Game Area.
  • other wildlife areas may be subunits inside other State lands.
  • Review the Wildlife/Game Area State Lands Rules relating to your desired activities.
• State Parks and Recreation Areas: (none).
• Shooting Ranges: Montcalm County Shooting Ranges
  
• Federal Lands:
  • Manistee National Forest - contact the area office for details.
• For County or Local public areas: contact the appropriate county or local offices for details.
      These offices are listed in area phone books; the county center is zip-code 48888.
• Select Private Land Opportunities:
      There may be special hunting options on select private lands in these programs:
  • Commercial Forest (CF) Program - mostly in northern Michigan; where there are
    CF Program Maps and Legal Descriptions with County CF parcel locations.
  • Hunter Access Program (HAP) - mostly in southern Michigan,
    however, currently there are no HAP areas in this county.

For Purchasing Licenses: either use DNR E-license online or county license locations.
For Official Hunting Hours: Add +06 Minutes to the Time Zone "A" table; specific times are
  "one half-hour before sunrise to one half-hour after sunset" adjusted for daylight-savings & time zone.
    A detailed "current local weather" forecast usually includes sunrise and sunset times for that area.
For More Detailed Information: regarding Michigan's public lands, hunting/trapping, and more
    see the sections "Where Can I Hunt", Hunting & Trapping, and Online Forms, Publications & Maps.
For the static "Lands Open to Public Hunting" map: Montcalm County PDF (3 by 4 foot page).
    The DNR Mi-Hunt online, interactive mapping tool is more up-todate versus the county PDFs.
For the Current Weather or a Forecast: the county center is zip-code 48888.