1
Herman Covey Wildlife Management Area
Nature preserve
1,051 acres6 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · Belchertown
Belchertown, MA parks, trails & bike paths
About 23% of Belchertown is conserved land, roughly 8,015 acres. There are about 94 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Herman Covey WMA (6 mi), Quabbin Reservoir Reservation (5.5 mi), and Quabbin Park (2.8 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Belchertown, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Belchertown outdoors
Conserved land
23%
8,015 of 35,169 acres
Trails
94 mi
1.7 mi per sq mi · 39 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
31
521 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
4.0 mi
3.7 mi lanes · 0.3 mi off-road paths
Conserved land is a share of the whole town area. Bike lanes are often missing from the map in smaller towns, so that number is likely low.
Map
Conserved land, trails & bike routes
Tap a number or a place below to zoom in© OpenStreetMap contributors · USGS PAD-US
Places to walk
Parks & preserves with trails
Ranked by mapped trail miles. Directions go to the nearest marked trailhead or public parking.
2
Quabbin Reservoir Reservation
Managed by DCR - Division Of Water Supply Protection
4,532 acres5.5 mi of trail
No dogsMapped in OpenStreetMap
DirectionsTo Fishing Area 1 Parking
3
Quabbin Park
Managed by DCR
195 acres2.8 mi of trail
Visitor's Center Loop TrailSwift River ExtentionTimber Frame Inner Loop
No dogsMapped in OpenStreetMap
4
Reed Property Conservation Restriction
Nature preserve
92 acres1.5 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
5
Holland Glen Forest
Nature preserve
332 acres1.3 mi of trail
Holland Glen EastHolland Glen WestHolland Glen
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
6
Topping Farm Conservation Area
Nature preserve
217 acres1.2 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
7
Jabish Brook Conservation Area
Nature preserve
145 acres1.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
8
Water Supply Land
Nature preserve
69 acres1 mi of trail
Holland Glen
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
All 31 parks & preserves
- The Meadows Conservation Area22 ac · 0.9 mi trail
- Foley Field66 ac · 0.8 mi trail · Directions
- Mount Holyoke Range State Park331 ac · 0.7 mi trail
- Meads Corner Conservation Area84 ac · 0.6 mi trail
- Scarborough Brook Conservation Area68 ac · 0.6 mi trail · Directions
- Warren Wright Road Conservation Area46 ac · 0.5 mi trail · Directions
- Conservation Area53 ac · 0.3 mi trail
- UMass Experimental Forest39 ac · 0.2 mi trail · Directions
- Red Bridge State Park4 ac · 0.2 mi trail
- Austin Gaughan Memorial Field6 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Town Common3 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Quabbin Reservoir Watershed170 ac
- Swift River Conservation Area56 ac · Directions
- Springfield Water Supply Land52 ac · Directions
- Water Supply Area39 ac
- Warner Road Conservation Area29 ac
- Town Woodlot21 ac
- Cadwell Memorial Forest8 ac
- Arcadia Bog Conservation Area8 ac · Directions
- Parsons Field6 ac · Directions
- Cold Spring Conservation Area5 ac · Directions
- Lake Vale Cemetery2 ac
- Valuation Section Conservation Area2 ac · Directions
Who protects the land
8,015 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 987 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 18 of 172 parcels. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes3.7 mi
- Off-road bike paths0.3 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
- Mass Central Rail Trail (bike route)5.2 mi
Courts & fields
- Baseball10
- Soccer7
- Tennis7
- Basketball6
- Pickleball3
- Lacrosse3
- Skate park1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Belchertown and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Belchertown's trails yet. Muddy, icy, a bridge out, where to park: a quick post helps the next person.
Sources: trails, parks, preserves, courts and bike lanes © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), map data as of 2026-09-28. Conserved land: USGS Gap Analysis Project, Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US). Measured against the Census town boundary.
How we measure
"Trails" are OpenStreetMap paths, bridleways, public tracks and unpaved footways, plus footways inside a park or preserve or on a named trail route. Sidewalks are left out. Areas are counted on a 29.8-meter grid, so overlapping parcels count once. "Conserved" includes conservation easements, which protect land from development but are usually private property. Trailheads are the nearest marked trailhead, public parking lot or information board within about 150 meters of a preserve. Dog rules come from OpenStreetMap when someone has tagged them; otherwise we show what's typical for the land manager, or say the rules aren't recorded.