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Hoag Woods
Managed by Upper Charles Conservation Land Trust
15 acres0.7 mi of trail
Hoag's Woodsy WalkHoag Cross Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · Medway
Medway, MA parks, trails & bike paths
About 7.8% of Medway is conserved land, roughly 578 acres. There are about 10 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Hoag Woods (0.7 mi), Idylbrook Conservation Land (0.6 mi), and Choate Park (0.6 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Medway, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Medway outdoors
Conserved land
7.8%
578 of 7,423 acres
Trails
10 mi
0.9 mi per sq mi · 4 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
10
43 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
1.4 mi
1.4 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
Idylbrook Conservation Land
Nature preserve
30 acres0.6 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3
Choate Park
Park
22 acres0.6 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4
Choate Park West
Nature preserve
31 acres0.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
All 10 parks & preserves
- Oakland Street Park16 ac
- Vfw Field13 ac
- Idylbrook Park10 ac · Directions
- Conservation Land4 ac
- North St Playground1 ac
- Village Street Park1 ac
Who protects the land
578 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 68 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 2 of 49 parcels. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes1.4 mi
- Off-road bike paths0.0 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Courts & fields
- Baseball11
- Tennis11
- Pickleball5
- Basketball5
- Soccer5
- Softball1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Medway and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
| Town | Conserved | Trails | Parks & preserves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medway | 7.8% | 10.4 mi | 10 |
| Franklin Town | 14.9% | 50.9 mi | 12 |
| Bellingham | 11.1% | 15.0 mi | 7 |
| Norfolk | 16% | 23.5 mi | 13 |
| Holliston | 23.4% | 47.8 mi | 24 |
| Millis | 23.6% | 16.2 mi | 17 |
| Milford | 10.4% | 33.7 mi | 8 |
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Medway'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.