Outdoors · Haverhill

Haverhill, MA parks, trails & bike paths

About 18% of Haverhill is conserved land, roughly 4,052 acres. There are about 68 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Winnekenni Park Conservation Area (12.1 mi), Brandy Brow Forest (4.5 mi), and Meadow Brook Conservation Area (4.5 mi).

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

At a glance

Haverhill outdoors

Conserved land
18%
4,052 of 22,701 acres
Trails
68 mi
1.9 mi per sq mi · 41 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
32
60 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
5.9 mi
5.0 mi lanes · 0.9 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.

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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

Winnekenni Park Conservation Area

Nature preserve
638 acres12.1 mi of trail
Castle TrailShore TrailMerill TrailDudley Porter Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
2

Brandy Brow Forest

Nature preserve
474 acres4.5 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
3

Meadow Brook Conservation Area

Nature preserve
291 acres4.5 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4

Tattersall Farm

Managed by City of Haverhill
91 acres1.6 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
5

Viburnum Woods

Managed by Essex County Greenbelt Association
58 acres1.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
6

John's Woods at Tattersall Farm

Managed by City of Haverhill
66 acres1.2 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
7

Clement Farm

Park
52 acres1.2 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
8

Crystal Gorge Conservation Area

Managed by City of Haverhill
85 acres1.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
All 32 parks & preserves
  • Crystal Shores Conservation Area58 ac · 1 mi trail · Directions
  • Ruth D. McPherson Conservation Land53 ac · 1 mi trail
  • Wheeler Woods45 ac · 1 mi trail · Directions
  • Whittier Birthplace62 ac · 0.7 mi trail
  • Creek Brook Conservation Area36 ac · 0.6 mi trail
  • Baypoint Riverfront17 ac · 0.4 mi trail · Directions
  • Sisters Pond32 ac · 0.3 mi trail
  • Riverside Park56 ac · 0.2 mi trail · Directions
  • Bailey Reservation20 ac · 0.2 mi trail · Directions
  • Plug Pond Recreation Area38 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
  • Cashman Field5 ac · 0.1 mi trail
  • Wysocki Park1 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
  • Crystal Lake East Conservation Area99 ac
  • Lake Pentucket45 ac · Directions
  • Merrimack River Park12 ac
  • Rurak Point Conservation Area10 ac · Directions
  • East Meadow Brook Lot9 ac
  • Corliss Hill8 ac
  • Corbett Memorial Woodland5 ac
  • Fox Field2 ac
  • Wood School Playground2 ac · Directions
  • G.A.R. Park1 ac
  • Bradford Common1 ac
  • Gale Park1 ac
Who protects the land

4,052 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Other state land
1,948 ac
Land trusts & nonprofits
225 ac
Town or city
136 ac
Not recorded
2,502 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 813 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 33 of 125 parcels. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.

Biking & sports

Bike routes, courts & fields

  • Painted or protected bike lanes5.0 mi
  • Off-road bike paths0.9 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi

Courts & fields

  • Baseball30
  • Tennis21
  • Basketball12
  • Soccer5
  • Pickleball1
  • Football1

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

Next door

Haverhill and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Haverhill17.9%68.0 mi32
Groveland16.4%23.7 mi22
West Newbury25.6%25.3 mi27
Methuen6.6%15.4 mi18
Boxford23%82.5 mi69
Merrimac13.6%14.2 mi15
Atkinson18.5%18.1 mi19
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Haverhill'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 25.9-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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