Plainfield Pond is in Kenneth Dubuque Memorial State Forest. The Town of Plainfield maintains a beach and boat launch on the south shore of the pond on Main Street (MA-116).

Some homes are perched along the west bank, leaving the rest of the shoreline a combination of forest, rocky, small islands, and wetlands. Hills rise both east and west the well above the pond.​

At Kenneth Dubuque Memorial State Forest, explore 35 miles of mixed-use trail throughout this 7,882-acre woodland. You can hike, mountain bike, and snowmobile. Keep a lookout for remains of the past, such as cellar holes from the abandoned village of South Hawley, a rare fieldstone "beehive" charcoal kiln, and the remains of a mill at Hallockville Pond.