Plains Forest used to be partly marsh, partly wilderness. It was cultivated in the 1940s, but returned to nature in the late 1990s, after citizens called for the institution of a natural area or park. The town council decided to let nature do its work and not maintain the land covered by the Plains Forest. It has layed out a couple of paths in the forest however, to aid hiking and cycling. The state is providing some more funds to add an extenstion of the path to extend to go along the beach.