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Nevins Bird Sanctuary
Nature preserve
31 acres0.7 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Outdoors · Methuen
Methuen, MA parks, trails & bike paths
About 6.6% of Methuen is conserved land, roughly 960 acres. There are about 15 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Nevins Bird Sanctuary (0.7 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Methuen, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Methuen outdoors
Conserved land
6.6%
960 of 14,627 acres
Trails
15 mi
0.7 mi per sq mi · 11 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
18
18 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
4.3 mi
2.3 mi lanes · 2.0 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
Francis Morse Park
Park
18 acres0.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3
Riverside Park
Park
9 acres0.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4
Conservation Land
Nature preserve
499 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
All 18 parks & preserves
Showing 1–10 of 18 parks & preserves
Nevins Bird Sanctuary31 acres · 0.7 mi of trail
Francis Morse Park18 acres · 0.4 mi of trail
Riverside Park9 acres · 0.4 mi of trail
Spicket Falls River Walk Park2 acres · 0.1 mi of trail
Conservation Land499 acres
Homestead Ave Land39 acres
Veterans Memorial Park33 acres · City Of Methuen
Sable Run30 acres · City Of Methuen
Olympic Village Land26 acres · City Of Methuen
Tenney Estate Park26 acres · Commonwealth Of Massachusetts
Who protects the land
960 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 163 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 10 of 78 parcels. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes2.3 mi
- Off-road bike paths2.0 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Courts & fields
- Tennis20
- Baseball19
- Soccer5
- Basketball3
- Softball3
- Equestrian2
- Pickleball2
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Nearby
Methuen and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Methuen'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 25.1-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.