Outdoors · Colrain

Colrain, MA parks, trails & bike paths

About 22% of Colrain is conserved land, roughly 6,146 acres. There are about 34 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Catamount State Forest (9.5 mi) and Catamount WMA (5.4 mi).

Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Colrain, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.

At a glance

Colrain outdoors

Conserved land
22%
6,146 of 27,569 acres
Trails
34 mi
0.8 mi per sq mi · 16 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
6
3,778 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

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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.
1

Catamount State Forest

Nature preserve
1,337 acres9.5 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
2

Catamount Wildlife Management Area

Nature preserve
495 acres5.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
3

H.O. Cook State Forest

Nature preserve
939 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
4

Green River Wildlife Management Area

Nature preserve
547 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Who protects the land

6,146 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Other state land
3,797 ac
Land trusts & nonprofits
779 ac
USDA easements (NRCS)
417 ac
Private owners
179 ac
Town or city
41 ac
Not recorded
3,723 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 2,381 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 9 of 151 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
Nearby

Colrain and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Colrain22.3%33.9 mi6
Leyden28.7%7.8 mi5
Halifax6.9%9.8 mi0
Heath21.9%3.2 mi9
Charlemont22.7%42.3 mi3
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Colrain'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 25.7-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.

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