Outdoors · Gill

Gill, MA parks, trails & bike paths

About 22% of Gill is conserved land, roughly 2,065 acres. There are about 27 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Connecticut River Greenway State Park (2.1 mi).

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

At a glance

Gill outdoors

Conserved land
22%
2,065 of 9,417 acres
Trails
27 mi
1.8 mi per sq mi · 10 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
2
1,187 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
2.6 mi
2.6 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

Connecticut River Greenway State Park

Nature preserve
464 acres2.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
2

Seventeen Acre Woodlot

Nature preserve
17 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Who protects the land

2,065 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Other state land
950 ac
Land trusts & nonprofits
629 ac
State conservation
619 ac
State parks
533 ac
USDA easements (NRCS)
410 ac
Joint
97 ac
Other or Unknown Local Government
70 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 1,496 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 8 of 108 parcels. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.

Biking & sports

Bike routes, courts & fields

  • Painted or protected bike lanes2.6 mi
  • Off-road bike paths0.0 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi

Courts & fields

  • Tennis12
  • Baseball2
  • Multi-sport2

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

Next door

Gill and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Gill21.9%27.1 mi2
Greenfield19.4%37.4 mi22
Northfield30.2%69.6 mi13
Montague41.6%70.0 mi15
Erving33.7%35.1 mi8
Bernardston27.3%39.8 mi9
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Gill'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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