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Oxford, MA parks, trails & bike paths

About 4.3% of Oxford is conserved land, roughly 752 acres. There are about 30 miles of mapped trails.

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

At a glance

Oxford outdoors

Conserved land
4.3%
752 of 17,455 acres
Trails
30 mi
1.1 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
10
56 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
0.9 mi
0.9 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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Places to walk

Parks & preserves with trails

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

Merrill Pond Wildlife Management Area

Nature preserve
327 acres0.2 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
2

Kulisa Conservation Restriction

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

Greenbiar Recreation Area

Park
14 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
4

Huguenot Fort Site

Park
9 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
All 10 parks & preserves
  • Carbuncle Park5 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
  • Little River Wildlife Management Area3 ac
  • Leovich Landing Conservation Area3 ac · Directions
  • Treasure Land Recreation Area3 ac · Directions
  • Joslin Park1 ac · Directions
  • Josling Park (ext.)1 ac · Directions
Who protects the land

752 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Other state land
567 ac
USDA easements (NRCS)
205 ac
Joint
67 ac
Land trusts & nonprofits
49 ac
Town or city
12 ac
State natural resources
1 ac
State fish & wildlife
1 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 347 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 1 of 38 parcels. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.

Biking & sports

Bike routes, courts & fields

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

Courts & fields

  • Baseball9
  • Basketball8
  • Soccer7
  • Tennis6
  • Skate park4
  • Pickleball2
  • Tracks2

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

Next door

Oxford and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Oxford4.3%30.1 mi10
Millbury12.1%26.3 mi9
Auburn10%7.9 mi12
Charlton10.2%34.7 mi30
Sutton16.8%66.7 mi7
Dudley19.4%9.1 mi10
Douglas26.7%83.7 mi4
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Oxford'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 22.9-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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