1
Nissitissit River Wildlife Management Area
Nature preserve
420 acres5.6 mi of trail
Potanipo Rail Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · Pepperell
Pepperell, MA parks, trails & bike paths
About 20% of Pepperell is conserved land, roughly 2,937 acres. There are about 33 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Nissitissit River WMA (5.6 mi), Heald Street Orchard (3.3 mi), and Bemis Road Conservation Area (2 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Pepperell, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Pepperell outdoors
Conserved land
20%
2,937 of 14,733 acres
Trails
33 mi
1.4 mi per sq mi · 24 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
45
252 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
2.0 mi
0.0 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
Heald Street Orchard
Nature preserve
80 acres3.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3
Bemis Road Conservation Area
Nature preserve
115 acres2 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4
Gulf Brook Conservation Area
Nature preserve
165 acres1.9 mi of trail
Jeff Smith TrailJST2Lawrence
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
5
Heald Pond Conservation Area
Nature preserve
69 acres1.7 mi of trail
Jeff Smith TrailH2C
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
6
Nissitissit Meadow Conservation Area
Managed by Pepperell Conservation Commission
62 acres1.7 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
7
Keyes Conservation Area
Nature preserve
77 acres1.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
8
Pepperell Springs Conservation Area
Nature preserve
268 acres1.2 mi of trail
Jeff Smith TrailH2CRed Trail
Dog rules not recorded
All 45 parks & preserves
- Mount Lebanon45 ac · 1 mi trail · Directions
- Riverside Conservation Area48 ac · 0.9 mi trail
- Town Forest99 ac · 0.6 mi trail · Directions
- Unkety Brook Wildlife Management Area103 ac · 0.5 mi trail
- Keyes Conservation Easement40 ac · 0.5 mi trail · Directions
- Keyes Farm85 ac · 0.4 mi trail · Directions
- Day Woods Conservation Area33 ac · 0.4 mi trail · Directions
- Westside Trail6 ac · 0.3 mi trail · Directions
- Stewart Brook Conservation Area43 ac · 0.2 mi trail · Directions
- Walent Property46 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Friends" Land24 ac · 0.1 mi trail
- Nashua River Rail Trail10 ac · 0.1 mi trail
- Kemp Parcel1 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Hovey Corner Conservation Area43 ac · Directions
- Townsend Hill Wildlife Management Area42 ac
- Boy Scout Parcel34 ac
- Cole Property32 ac
- Shattuck Estates Conservation Area27 ac
- Nashua River Access19 ac · Directions
- Anderson Lot14 ac
- Nashua River Shoreline13 ac
- Town Land11 ac
- Burnham Lot11 ac
- Egan Pond10 ac
- Town Field9 ac · Directions
- Merrill Parcel8 ac
- Nashoba Conservation Trust7 ac
- Susan Smith Lot5 ac
- Pepperell Pond5 ac · Directions
- Greens Brook Trail4 ac
- Comisky Field3 ac · Directions
- Cranberry Woods3 ac
- Covered Bridge Conservation Area3 ac · Directions
- Unkety Brook Watershed3 ac
- Kennedy Field2 ac
- Foley Lot2 ac
- J. Harry Rich State Forest1 ac
Who protects the land
2,937 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 1,011 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 7 of 219 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 paths2.0 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Courts & fields
- Baseball9
- Tennis3
- Basketball1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Pepperell and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Pepperell'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.