The Agawam Boat Ramp is on the Agawam River.

Stretching from the ponds of Plymouth to Wareham Village, the Agawam River is home to one of the most abundant herring runs on Buzzards Bay. Each spring, tens of thousands of river herring migrate from the Atlantic Ocean up the Agawam to its headwaters at Halfway Pond in Plymouth. Schools of herring swim up the fish ladder at the base of Agawam Mill Pond to spawn in these fresh waters.

Pine and oak forests border the edge of Agawam Mill Pond and the Agawam River, providing a home for deer, fox, and turkey. Further upstream, these forests transition to the rare pine barrens of Myles Standish State Forest.