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Midura Family Conservation Area
Nature preserve
192 acres2.6 mi of trail
White TrailYellow TrailOrange TrailGreen Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo Midura Conservation Area Parking
Outdoors · Palmer
Palmer, MA parks, trails & bike paths
About 17% of Palmer is conserved land, roughly 3,437 acres. There are about 12 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Midura Family Conservation Area (2.6 mi), Palmer WMA (1.4 mi), and Red Bridge State Park (0.6 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Palmer, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Palmer outdoors
Conserved land
17%
3,437 of 20,360 acres
Trails
12 mi
0.4 mi per sq mi · 7 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
10
278 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
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
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
Palmer Wildlife Management Area
Nature preserve
1,149 acres1.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
3
Red Bridge State Park
Nature preserve
23 acres0.6 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
4
Burleigh Park
Park
164 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
All 10 parks & preserves
- Lavoilette Field8 ac · 0.2 mi trail · Directions
- Hryniewicz Park1 ac · 0.2 mi trail · Directions
- Kings Brook Conservation Area29 ac
- Chase Memorial Park27 ac · Directions
- Swift River Green Belt25 ac · Directions
- Pulaski Park4 ac
Who protects the land
3,437 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 236 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 10 of 73 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
- Baseball10
- Tennis9
- Basketball5
- Soccer3
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Palmer and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
| Town | Conserved | Trails | Parks & preserves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Palmer | 16.9% | 12.4 mi | 10 |
| Monson | 18% | 28.9 mi | 11 |
| Belchertown | 22.8% | 93.6 mi | 31 |
| Brimfield | 14% | 27.0 mi | 7 |
| Warren | 6.5% | 2.7 mi | 9 |
| Ware | 25.9% | 22.9 mi | 9 |
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Palmer'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 25.7-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.