1
Delaney Wildlife Management Area
Nature preserve
335 acres7.2 mi of trail
Primary TrailSecondary Trail
Dog rules not recorded
Outdoors · Harvard
Harvard, MA parks, trails & bike paths
About 30% of Harvard is conserved land, roughly 5,209 acres. There are about 97 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Delaney WMA (7.2 mi), Oxbow National Wildlife Refuge (6.4 mi), and Fruitlands Museum (4.5 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Harvard, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Harvard outdoors
Conserved land
30%
5,209 of 17,275 acres
Trails
97 mi
3.6 mi per sq mi · 60 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
144
752 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
4.9 mi
4.9 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
Oxbow National Wildlife Refuge
Nature preserve
1,213 acres6.4 mi of trail
Riverside TrailTurnpike TrailGoddard Memorial Trail
Dog rules not recorded
3
Fruitlands Museum
Nature preserve
209 acres4.5 mi of trail
Harvard Snowmobile Club TrailOrange TrailRed TrailYellow TrailWhite Trail
Dog rules not recorded
4
Sprague Land
Nature preserve
105 acres1.8 mi of trail
Primary TrailField Perimeter TrailField perimeter trail
Dog rules not recorded
5
Prospect Hill (Newman Land)
Nature preserve
62 acres1.5 mi of trail
Prospect Hill Trail - Secondary (blue blaze)Prospect Hill Trail - Primary (yellow blaze)Prospect Hill Primary Trail (yellow blazes)Prospect Hill Secondary Trail (blue blazes)
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Website
6
Holy Hill (A7)
Nature preserve
32 acres1.5 mi of trail
Holy Hill (yellow blaze)Holy Hill (blue blaze)Holy Hill (steep) (blue blaze)Closed (very steep)
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Website
7
Great Elms
Nature preserve
69 acres1.4 mi of trail
Great Elms Primary Trail (blue blaze)Great Elms Alternate EntranceBrown Trail (blue blazes)Brehm East (Blue blazes)Great Elms Access Trail
Dog rules not recorded
8
Hermann Orchard
Nature preserve
52 acres1.4 mi of trail
Hermann Orchard TrailYellow blaze trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Website
All 60 parks & preserves
- Clapp44 ac · 1.4 mi trail · Directions
- Town Forest42 ac · 1.4 mi trail
- Eastern Greenway (South)114 ac · 1.1 mi trail
- Bare Hill Wildlife Sanctuary52 ac · 1 mi trail · Directions
- Reed-Powell Land31 ac · 1 mi trail · Directions
- Mccurdy Track and Woods25 ac · 1 mi trail · Directions
- Burgess-Brown Land42 ac · 0.9 mi trail · Directions
- Scorgie Land39 ac · 0.9 mi trail · Directions
- Black Pond51 ac · 0.8 mi trail
- Horse Meadows Knoll46 ac · 0.8 mi trail · Directions
- Willard Land42 ac · 0.8 mi trail · Directions
- Eastern Greenway (Central)42 ac · 0.8 mi trail · Directions
- Muller Land - HCT27 ac · 0.8 mi trail · Directions
- Tufts27 ac · 0.8 mi trail
- Williams Land63 ac · 0.7 mi trail · Directions
- Blomfelt Land31 ac · 0.7 mi trail · Directions
- Vesenka Land25 ac · 0.7 mi trail
- Shaker Springhouse18 ac · 0.7 mi trail · Directions
- Tripp Conservation Land48 ac · 0.6 mi trail · Directions
- Ohlin Land25 ac · 0.6 mi trail
- Old Mill Road Land22 ac · 0.6 mi trail
- Three Brothers38 ac · 0.5 mi trail
- Warila Land31 ac · 0.5 mi trail
- Bowers Spring - Visockas28 ac · 0.5 mi trail
- Coke/Newsham Land27 ac · 0.5 mi trail · Directions
- Kaufmann Land20 ac · 0.5 mi trail · Directions
- Maxant Land18 ac · 0.5 mi trail · Directions
- Daman Land40 ac · 0.4 mi trail
- Saint Scholastica/Luongo Land34 ac · 0.4 mi trail
- East Bare Hill Land31 ac · 0.4 mi trail
- Russo Land21 ac · 0.4 mi trail
- Barba Land19 ac · 0.4 mi trail · Directions
- Dolan Mason Land16 ac · 0.4 mi trail
- Poitras Land14 ac · 0.4 mi trail · Directions
- Brehm Land13 ac · 0.4 mi trail · Directions
- WestOak11 ac · 0.4 mi trail
- Cram Land (Pin Hill Area)10 ac · 0.4 mi trail · Directions
- Stone Land6 ac · 0.4 mi trail
- Coke Land43 ac · 0.3 mi trail
- Dunlap Land (CR)34 ac · 0.3 mi trail
- Dean's Hill Conservation Restriction34 ac · 0.3 mi trail
- Farwell Quarry28 ac · 0.3 mi trail
- Mirror Lake24 ac · 0.3 mi trail · Directions
- W Smith Land & Tufts Land 216 ac · 0.3 mi trail
- Bowers Spring - Sprague15 ac · 0.3 mi trail
- May's Easement15 ac · 0.3 mi trail
- Harris Lane Land13 ac · 0.3 mi trail · Directions
- Tully Land12 ac · 0.3 mi trail
- Hoch Land12 ac · 0.3 mi trail
- Old Littleton Meadow9 ac · 0.3 mi trail
- Holy Hill (B2)9 ac · 0.3 mi trail
- Callahan8 ac · 0.3 mi trail
Who protects the land
5,209 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 1,151 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 15 of 268 parcels. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes4.9 mi
- Off-road bike paths0.0 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.1 mi
Courts & fields
- Tennis16
- Soccer6
- Baseball5
- Basketball4
- Tracks4
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Harvard and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Harvard'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 20.4-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.