Outdoors · Leyden

Leyden, MA parks, trails & bike paths

About 29% of Leyden is conserved land, roughly 3,301 acres. There are about 7.8 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Leyden WMA (3.1 mi).

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

At a glance

Leyden outdoors

Conserved land
29%
3,301 of 11,484 acres
Trails
7.8 mi
0.4 mi per sq mi · 5 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
5
named on the map
Bike routes
0.0 mi
0.0 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

Leyden Wildlife Management Area

Nature preserve
771 acres3.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
2

Leyden State Forest

Nature preserve
58 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
3

Shattuck Brook Wildlife Management Area

Nature preserve
36 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
4

Green River Wildlife Management Area

Nature preserve
18 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
All 5 parks & preserves
  • Church Woods1 ac
Who protects the land

3,301 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Land trusts & nonprofits
1,376 ac
Other state land
1,143 ac
Joint
499 ac
Town or city
469 ac
USDA easements (NRCS)
302 ac
Private owners
301 ac
Not recorded
1,422 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 1,579 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 1 of 123 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 paths0.0 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi

Courts & fields

  • Tennis1

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

Next door

Leyden and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Leyden28.7%7.8 mi5
Colrain22.3%33.9 mi6
Bernardston27.3%39.8 mi9
Guilford6.7%17.7 mi2
Greenfield19.4%37.4 mi22
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Leyden'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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