Outdoors · Danvers

Danvers, MA parks, trails & bike paths

About 19% of Danvers is conserved land, roughly 1,693 acres. There are about 14 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Endicott Park (2.8 mi), Putnamville Reservoir (1.9 mi), and Proctor Farm Conservation Area (1.2 mi).

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

At a glance

Danvers outdoors

Conserved land
19%
1,693 of 9,023 acres
Trails
14 mi
1 mi per sq mi · 10 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
41
60 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
6.3 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 6.3 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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Places to walk

Parks & preserves with trails

Ranked by mapped trail miles. Directions go to the nearest marked trailhead or public parking.
1

Endicott Park

Park
117 acres2.8 mi of trail
Maintenance Path
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
2

Putnamville Reservoir

Managed by Salem-Beverly Water Board
152 acres1.9 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3

Proctor Farm Conservation Area

Nature preserve
43 acres1.2 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4

Choate Farm Conservation Area

Nature preserve
22 acres0.6 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
5

Town Land

Nature preserve
49 acres0.3 mi of trail
Swampwalk
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
6

College Pond Conservation Area

Nature preserve
19 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
7

Norris Brook Conservation Area

Nature preserve
15 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
All 41 parks & preserves
  • West Street Canoe Launch Conservation Area19 ac · 0.2 mi trail · Directions
  • Bradstreet Open Space16 ac · 0.2 mi trail
  • Moore Woods Conservation Area6 ac · 0.2 mi trail
  • Ferncroft Pond Open Space8 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
  • Horace C. Clark Conservation Area39 ac · Directions
  • Plains Park27 ac · Directions
  • Stone Street Playground24 ac · Directions
  • Cherry Hill Open Space20 ac · Directions
  • Choate Farm Open Space17 ac · Directions
  • College Pond Area13 ac
  • Danvers Meadows13 ac · Directions
  • Rocky Hill Conservation Area12 ac
  • Point Bishops Meadow Drainage10 ac
  • Westover Farms Open Space8 ac
  • Ipswich River&Norris Brook8 ac
  • John L. George Park7 ac
  • Locust St Open Space7 ac
  • Tapley Park6 ac
  • Bishops Meadow Watershed6 ac
  • Sandy Beach5 ac
  • Bruleys Corner5 ac · Directions
  • Arrowhead Estates4 ac
  • Nichols Brook Watershed4 ac
  • Rocky Hill Circle Open Space3 ac
  • Fox Hill Open Space3 ac
  • Rogers Farm Subd Open Space3 ac
  • Buxton Rd Land3 ac
  • Nichols Brook2 ac
  • Meadows Drainage Area2 ac
  • Cluster Open Space2 ac
  • Frost Fish Brook1 ac
  • Training Field1 ac
  • 136R North St.1 ac
  • Lawrence Street Playground1 ac
Who protects the land

1,693 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Town or city
295 ac
Other state land
208 ac
Other or Unknown Local Government
65 ac
Private owners
21 ac
Regional Water Districts
8 ac
Land trusts & nonprofits
3 ac
Not recorded
1,258 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 108 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 9 of 118 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 paths6.3 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi

Courts & fields

  • Baseball17
  • Tennis15
  • Pickleball7
  • Soccer6
  • Basketball5
  • Football4
  • Softball1

Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.

Next door

Danvers and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Danvers18.8%14.1 mi41
Middleton19.7%40.2 mi36
Peabody14.4%21.3 mi34
Salem11.8%26.7 mi39
Beverly12.5%46.9 mi43
Topsfield34.8%30.0 mi26
Wenham28.4%19.7 mi21
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Danvers'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.

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