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Phillipston Wildlife Management Area
Nature preserve
1,949 acres2.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · Phillipston
Phillipston, MA parks, trails & bike paths
About 41% of Phillipston is conserved land, roughly 6,427 acres. There are about 16 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Phillipston WMA (2.1 mi), Millers River WMA (2 mi), and Harvard Forest (1.2 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Phillipston, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Phillipston outdoors
Conserved land
41%
6,427 of 15,675 acres
Trails
16 mi
0.6 mi per sq mi · 11 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
12
3,392 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
1.3 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 1.3 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.
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Millers River Wildlife Management Area
Nature preserve
618 acres2 mi of trail
Blue and Yellow TrailThousand Acre Brook TrailObservation Hill Trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
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Harvard Forest
Nature preserve
303 acres1.2 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
4
Elliott Laurel
Managed by Trustees of Reservations
31 acres0.8 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
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Ware River Watershed
Nature preserve
319 acres0.7 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
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Baldwin Hill Conservation Area
Nature preserve
75 acres0.6 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
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Popple Camp Wildlife Management Area
Managed by Department of Fish And Game
808 acres0.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
All 12 parks & preserves
- Fox Valley Wildlife Sanctuary52 ac · 0.2 mi trail
- Lamb City Campground69 ac · 0.1 mi trail
- Stone Bridge Wildlife Management Area292 ac
- Hubbardston State Forest78 ac
- Highland Avenue Conservation Area57 ac
Who protects the land
6,427 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 2,025 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 1 of 112 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 paths1.3 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Courts & fields
- Equestrian8
- Tennis3
- Baseball3
- Basketball2
- Softball1
- Volleyball1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Phillipston and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Phillipston'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 23.1-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.