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Hiram H. Fox Wildlife Management Area
Nature preserve
1,499 acres2.8 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Outdoors · Chester
Chester, MA parks, trails & bike paths
About 30% of Chester is conserved land, roughly 7,156 acres. There are about 25 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Hiram H. Fox WMA (2.8 mi), Westfield River Highlands (2 mi), and Wright / Mica Mill Wildlife Conservation Easement (1.7 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Chester, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Chester outdoors
Conserved land
30%
7,156 of 23,644 acres
Trails
25 mi
0.7 mi per sq mi · 14 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
12
5,771 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
Westfield River Highlands
Nature preserve
255 acres2 mi of trail
Gobble mountain trailUkamit's PathTrail of Ledges
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the trailhead
3
Wright / Mica Mill Wildlife Conservation Easement
Nature preserve
1,651 acres1.7 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4
Watershed Land
Nature preserve
362 acres0.7 mi of trail
Trail of LedgesUkamit's Path
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
All 12 parks & preserves
- Fox Den Wildlife Management Area556 ac
- John J. Kelly Wildlife Management Area325 ac · Directions
- Skedden Property131 ac
- Westfield River Access24 ac · Directions
- Hampden Street Park8 ac · Directions
- Riverside Park8 ac · Directions
- Conservation Land1 ac
- School Street Park1 ac
Who protects the land
7,156 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 2,245 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. 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
- Basketball1
- Baseball1
- Soccer1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Chester and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
| Town | Conserved | Trails | Parks & preserves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chester | 30.3% | 25.0 mi | 12 |
| Huntington | 27.7% | 35.8 mi | 9 |
| Blandford | 49.4% | 44.5 mi | 8 |
| Middlefield | 48.1% | 11.4 mi | 10 |
| Worthington | 37.4% | 12.6 mi | 7 |
| Becket | 23.5% | 31.4 mi | 11 |
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Chester'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 21.5-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.