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Lone Tree Conservation Area
Nature preserve
97 acres3.6 mi of trail
Meadow Edge TrailHillside TrailRed Maple TrailNorth Cottage TrailEastern Woods Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · Belmont
Belmont, MA parks, trails & bike paths
About 17% of Belmont is conserved land, roughly 495 acres. There are about 16 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Lone Tree Conservation Area (3.6 mi), Habitat Education Center & Wildlife Sanctuary (3.6 mi), and Rock Meadow Conservation Area (1.6 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Belmont, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Belmont outdoors
Conserved land
17%
495 of 3,001 acres
Trails
16 mi
3.5 mi per sq mi · 8 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
14
18 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
8.9 mi
7.1 mi lanes · 0.7 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
Habitat Education Center & Wildlife Sanctuary
Nature preserve
81 acres3.6 mi of trail
Highland Farm LoopTurtle Pond LoopMeadow TrailRed Maple TrailWestern Greenway
No dogsMapped in OpenStreetMap
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3
Rock Meadow Conservation Area
Nature preserve
71 acres1.6 mi of trail
Western Greenway
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4
Beaver Brook North Reservation
Nature preserve
53 acres1.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
5
Grove Street Park
Park
10 acres0.7 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
6
Beaver Brook Reservation
Nature preserve
16 acres0.6 mi of trail
Brookside TrailKendall Path
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
7
Clay Pit Pond Park
Park
21 acres0.5 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
8
Cambridge Reservoir Park
Park
12 acres0.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
All 14 parks & preserves
- Former McLean Farm5 ac · 0.2 mi trail · Directions
- Underwood Park3 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Peqoussette Park7 ac · Directions
- Town Field5 ac
- Payson Park2 ac
- Common Street Grounds1 ac · Directions
Who protects the land
495 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 38 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 5 of 50 parcels. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes7.1 mi
- Off-road bike paths0.7 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes1.1 mi
Courts & fields
- Tennis31
- Soccer18
- Baseball13
- Basketball9
- Pickleball4
- Football4
- Tracks1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Belmont and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Belmont'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 20-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.