Outdoors · Littleton

Littleton, MA parks, trails & bike paths

About 16% of Littleton is conserved land, roughly 1,755 acres. There are about 46 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Oak Hill (6.3 mi), Long Lake Park (4.8 mi), and Sarah Doublet Forest (3.1 mi).

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

At a glance

Littleton outdoors

Conserved land
16%
1,755 of 11,137 acres
Trails
46 mi
2.6 mi per sq mi · 24 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
46
171 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
0.1 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 0.1 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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Places to walk

Parks & preserves with trails

Ranked by mapped trail miles. Directions go to the nearest marked trailhead or public parking.
1

Oak Hill

Managed by Littleton Conservation Trust (LCT)
221 acres6.3 mi of trail
Boundary Trail (yellow)Fire Road 5Fire Road 3 (no markings)Tophet Chasm Trail (orange)Fire Road 2
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
2

Long Lake Park

Managed by Littleton Conservation Trust (LCT)
169 acres4.8 mi of trail
Main Loop Trail - YellowBlue Dot TrailCharles L. Tirone Memorial Trail - RedredVernal Pool Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
3

Sarah Doublet Forest

Managed by Littleton Conservation Trust (LCT)
103 acres3.1 mi of trail
Wunnuhhew Loop (yellow)Tatatiquinea Loop (red)AT&T Burried Cable Trail (yellow and red)Ed Bell Trail (blue)Fort Pond Trail (white)
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4

Prouty Woods Community Forest

Managed by Littleton Conservation Trust (LCT)
104 acres2.8 mi of trail
Two Brothers Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
5

Hartwell Family Memorial Preserve

Managed by Littleton Conservation Trust (LCT)
110 acres2.7 mi of trail
yellowredblue
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
6

Newtown Hill

Managed by Littleton Conservation Trust (LCT)
96 acres1.7 mi of trail
yellowBlueblueSprong Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
7

Williams Land

Nature preserve
36 acres1.4 mi of trail
yellowblueunmaintainedorange
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
8

Yapp Conservation Land

Managed by Littleton Conservation Trust (LCT)
53 acres1.2 mi of trail
Yellow Dot TrailWhite Dot TrailRed Dot TrailFarm Pond Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
All 46 parks & preserves
  • Town Forest73 ac · 1.1 mi trail · Directions
  • Cobbs Woods34 ac · 1.1 mi trail · Directions
  • Whitetail Woods36 ac · 1 mi trail · Directions
  • Nashoba Woodlands174 ac · 0.8 mi trail · Directions
  • Morgan Land49 ac · 0.7 mi trail · Directions
  • Mill Hill31 ac · 0.6 mi trail
  • Shaker Lane School Land30 ac · 0.6 mi trail · Directions
  • Cloverdale Conservation Area28 ac · 0.6 mi trail · Directions
  • Bumblebee Park14 ac · 0.6 mi trail · Directions
  • Smith Conservation Restriction48 ac · 0.5 mi trail · Directions
  • Nagog Hill Orchard Extension29 ac · 0.5 mi trail · Directions
  • Brown's Woods23 ac · 0.5 mi trail · Directions
  • Herget18 ac · 0.5 mi trail
  • Sprong Land32 ac · 0.4 mi trail
  • Mary Shepherd Open Space21 ac · 0.4 mi trail
  • Nagog Hill Orchard19 ac · 0.4 mi trail
  • Balsam Lane Conservation Area17 ac · 0.2 mi trail · Directions
  • Conant Park7 ac · 0.2 mi trail · Directions
  • Nashoba Wetlands26 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
  • Moore Land5 ac · 0.1 mi trail
  • Old Littleton Meadow4 ac · 0.1 mi trail
  • Boxborough Station Wildlife Management Area77 ac
  • Beaver Brook Marsh24 ac · Directions
  • Mill Pond Marsh19 ac
  • Fire Pond Area17 ac
  • Bumblebee Meadows9 ac · Directions
  • 300 King Street Park8 ac · Directions
  • Brook Way8 ac · Directions
  • Koerper Field5 ac · Directions
  • Bulkeley Road Marsh4 ac
  • Hartwell Preserve Extension4 ac
  • Fay Park4 ac · Directions
  • Mill Pond Conserv. Area3 ac
  • Saint Annes Field2 ac · Directions
  • Long Lake Beach2 ac · Directions
  • Littleton Common1 ac · Directions
  • Fort Pond Conservation Land1 ac
  • Holly Park1 ac
Who protects the land

1,755 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Town or city
652 ac
Land trusts & nonprofits
411 ac
Other state land
225 ac
USDA easements (NRCS)
49 ac
Private owners
14 ac
Not recorded
795 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 354 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 6 of 111 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 paths0.1 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi

Courts & fields

  • Tennis10
  • Baseball9
  • Basketball6
  • Soccer5
  • Football1

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

Next door

Littleton and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Littleton15.8%45.9 mi46
Ayer15%17.8 mi8
Boxborough18.3%33.7 mi27
Westford23%139.8 mi70
Acton22.7%61.0 mi41
Groton33.4%152.7 mi130
Harvard30.2%96.8 mi144
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Littleton'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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