1
Brookline Reservoir Park
Park
32 acres1.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Outdoors · Brookline
Brookline, MA parks, trails & bike paths
About 20% of Brookline is conserved land, roughly 861 acres. There are about 16 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Brookline Reservoir Park (1.1 mi), Skyline Park (1 mi), and Larz Anderson Park (0.9 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Brookline, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Brookline outdoors
Conserved land
20%
861 of 4,346 acres
Trails
16 mi
2.3 mi per sq mi · 14 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
43
14 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
32.4 mi
22.6 mi lanes · 3.7 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
Skyline Park
Park
27 acres1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3
Larz Anderson Park
Managed by Town of Brookline Parks and Recreation Department
60 acres0.9 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4
Dane Park
Park
14 acres0.8 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
5
D. Blakeley Hoar Sanctuary
Managed by Brookline Conservation Commission
25 acres0.7 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
6
Lost Pond Reservation
Managed by Massachusetts Department of Conservation & Recreation
32 acres0.6 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
7
Lost Pond Sanctuary
Managed by City of Brookline
26 acres0.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
8
Hall's Pond Sanctuary
Nature preserve
3 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
All 43 parks & preserves
- Hammond Pond Parkway29 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Olmsted Park15 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Daniel W. Warren, Jr. Playground11 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Amory Playground9 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Pierce School Playground2 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Riverway15 ac · Directions
- Harry Downes Field9 ac · Directions
- Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site7 ac
- Jean B. Waldstein Playground5 ac · Directions
- Cypress Street Playground5 ac · Directions
- Longwood Playground5 ac
- Corey Hill Park4 ac
- Brookline Avenue Playground3 ac · Directions
- Griggs Park3 ac · Directions
- Knyvet Square3 ac · Directions
- Single Tree Hill Reservoir3 ac · Directions
- Longwood Mall2 ac · Directions
- Margaret E. Robinson Playground2 ac
- Cottage Street Preserve2 ac · Directions
- Emerson Garden2 ac · Directions
- Winthrop Square2 ac · Directions
- West Roxbury Parkway2 ac
- Amory Woods2 ac · Directions
- Judge Sumner Z. Kaplan Park1 ac · Directions
- Little Field Park1 ac · Directions
- Boylston Street Playground1 ac · Directions
- Mason Square1 ac · Directions
- Walnut Place Conservation Restriction1 ac
- Sargent Beechwood Nature Walk1 ac
- Clark Playground1 ac
- Lotta Bradburn Schick Park1 ac · Directions
- Lawton Playground1 ac
- Friedman Park1 ac
- Dudley Triangle1 ac
- Horace James Circle1 ac
Who protects the land
861 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 61 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 3 of 87 parcels. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes22.6 mi
- Off-road bike paths3.7 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes6.0 mi
Courts & fields
- Tennis64
- Basketball25
- Baseball16
- Soccer10
- Multi-sport4
- Football4
- Lacrosse3
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Brookline and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Brookline'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.