1
Main Street Wildlife Refuge
Nature preserve
411 acres4.5 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · Dunstable
Dunstable, MA parks, trails & bike paths
About 30% of Dunstable is conserved land, roughly 3,200 acres. There are about 40 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Main Street Wildlife Refuge (4.5 mi), Unkety Brook WMA (2.9 mi), and Spaulding-Proctor Reservation (2.1 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Dunstable, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Dunstable outdoors
Conserved land
30%
3,200 of 10,660 acres
Trails
40 mi
2.4 mi per sq mi · 23 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
47
939 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
2.4 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 2.4 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
Unkety Brook Wildlife Management Area
Nature preserve
516 acres2.9 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
3
Spaulding-Proctor Reservation
Nature preserve
147 acres2.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4
Flat Rock Hill Quarry
Nature preserve
83 acres2 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
5
Flat Rock Hill
Nature preserve
149 acres1.9 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
6
Kennedy Conservation Area
Nature preserve
63 acres1.3 mi of trail
Nashua Acton & Boston Railroad
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
7
Pierce Town Forest
Nature preserve
128 acres1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
8
Unkety Brook Wildlife Conservation Easement
Nature preserve
85 acres0.8 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
All 47 parks & preserves
- Blanchard Hill52 ac · 0.7 mi trail
- Hauk Swamp Wildlife Conservation Easement63 ac · 0.5 mi trail
- Unkety Woods Preserve56 ac · 0.5 mi trail
- Gage Town Forest35 ac · 0.5 mi trail
- Nashua River Access14 ac · 0.5 mi trail · Directions
- Arched Bridge Conservation Area11 ac · 0.5 mi trail · Directions
- Proctor-Grater Conservation Area43 ac · 0.3 mi trail
- Spectacle Hill Conservation Area26 ac · 0.3 mi trail
- Unkety Brook Conservation Area83 ac · 0.2 mi trail
- Amos Kendall Conservation Area25 ac · 0.2 mi trail
- Joint Grass Brook Conservation Area20 ac · 0.2 mi trail · Directions
- Elbow Meadow Wildlife Management Area13 ac · 0.2 mi trail
- Hardy Street Conservation Area11 ac · 0.2 mi trail
- Farnsworth Wildlife Refuge79 ac · 0.1 mi trail
- Chaney Park8 ac · 0.1 mi trail
- Dunstable Brook Wildlife Management Area171 ac · Directions
- Larter Property73 ac
- Hauk Swamp Wildlife Management Area55 ac
- Emery Woods47 ac
- English Wildlife Refuge34 ac
- Hogg Conservation Area29 ac
- Nashua River Rail Trail16 ac · Directions
- Keyes Meadow Conservation Area13 ac
- Biron Conservation Area12 ac
- Unketty Brook Meadow12 ac
- Bacon Conservation Area12 ac · Directions
- Howard's Brook Conservation Area10 ac
- Brook Conservation Area8 ac
- Goldthwaite Conservation Area4 ac
- Basbanes Conservation Area4 ac
- Gardner Conservation Area4 ac
- Urqhart Conservation Area4 ac
- Talis Open Space3 ac
- Sawyer Conservation Area3 ac
- Sargent Conservation Area2 ac
- Lupien Open Space2 ac
- Craven Conservation Area2 ac
- Shaw Conservation Area2 ac · Directions
- Lovewell Pond Conservation Area1 ac
Who protects the land
3,200 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 1,122 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 6 of 129 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 paths2.4 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Courts & fields
- Baseball6
- Tennis4
- Soccer2
- Basketball2
- Beach volleyball1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Dunstable and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
| Town | Conserved | Trails | Parks & preserves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dunstable | 30% | 39.5 mi | 47 |
| Pepperell | 19.9% | 32.9 mi | 45 |
| Tyngsborough | 14.4% | 26.4 mi | 19 |
| Groton | 33.4% | 152.7 mi | 130 |
| Nashua | 13.1% | 45.7 mi | 44 |
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Dunstable'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.