This community is widespread throughout the northern half of New York. It is concentrated in the Adirondack Subsection of the Northern Appalachian Ecoregion where it reaches large patch size. Scattered small patch examples occur in the Great Lakes, Lower New England (e.g., Rensselaer Plateau), and High Allegheny Plateau (e.g., probably the Catskill Mountains and Southern Tier) Ecoregions, as well as the Tug Hill section of the Northern Appalachian Ecoregion.

The range of this community is estimated to span northeast to Nova Scotia, northwest possibly to Ontario, southwest possibly to Pennsylvania, and southeast to the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts and the Rensselaer Plateau of New York.