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Patch Hill Conservation Area
Nature preserve
234 acres4.3 mi of trail
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Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · Boxborough
Boxborough, MA parks, trails & bike paths
About 18% of Boxborough is conserved land, roughly 1,215 acres. There are about 34 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Patch Hill Conservation Area (4.3 mi), Steele Farm (2.8 mi), and Have Not Pond Conservation Area (2.2 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Boxborough, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Boxborough outdoors
Conserved land
18%
1,215 of 6,620 acres
Trails
34 mi
3.3 mi per sq mi · 17 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
27
221 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
0.0 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 0.0 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
Steele Farm
Nature preserve
100 acres2.8 mi of trail
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Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3
Have Not Pond Conservation Area
Nature preserve
68 acres2.2 mi of trail
Hager TrailCharlene Golden TrailFisk Wood
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4
Hager Land
Nature preserve
119 acres2.1 mi of trail
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Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
5
Wolf Swamp Conservation Land
Nature preserve
231 acres2 mi of trail
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Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
6
Flagg Hill Conservation Area
Nature preserve
77 acres1.5 mi of trail
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Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
7
Rolling Meadows
Nature preserve
41 acres1.5 mi of trail
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Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
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Fort Pond Brook
Nature preserve
59 acres1.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
All 27 parks & preserves
- Beaver Brook Meadow35 ac · 1.3 mi trail · Directions
- Beaver Brook Valley Preserve68 ac · 1.2 mi trail
- Panek Conservation Restriction51 ac · 1 mi trail · Directions
- Cisco Campus Conservation Restriction109 ac · 0.9 mi trail · Directions
- Flerra Meadows35 ac · 0.7 mi trail · Directions
- Perkins Woods20 ac · 0.7 mi trail · Directions
- Half Moon Meadow45 ac · 0.5 mi trail · Directions
- Shurtleff Woods Conservation Area14 ac · 0.5 mi trail
- Inches Woods25 ac · 0.4 mi trail · Directions
- Elizabeth Brook Knoll16 ac · 0.4 mi trail · Directions
- Hager Meadow Conservation Area28 ac · 0.3 mi trail
- Heath Hen Meadow Conservation Area52 ac · 0.2 mi trail · Directions
- Boxborough Station Wildlife Management Area13 ac · 0.2 mi trail · Directions
- Indian Meadow63 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Grady Conservation Preserve20 ac · 0.1 mi trail
- Pettingel Park12 ac
- Hartwell Sanctuary10 ac
- Biotti Land7 ac · Directions
- Half Moon Meadow Brook3 ac
Who protects the land
1,215 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 295 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 2 of 82 parcels. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes0.0 mi
- Off-road bike paths0.0 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Courts & fields
- Tennis4
- Pickleball4
- Basketball3
- Baseball3
- Soccer2
- Volleyball1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Boxborough and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Boxborough'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.