South of Utica you will find many acres of cultivated land, while north of the city there is some cultivated acres, but much of the land is of poorer quality and used for timber production, grazing, and hay production. Even further north you get into the foothills of the Adirondack Park and it's highly forested. To the west of Rome, you can see the marshy lands along the Wood Creek and the Barge Canal, along with the confers of the Rome Sand Plains, a pine barriens.