Outdoors · Rowe

Rowe, MA parks, trails & bike paths

About 27% of Rowe is conserved land, roughly 4,067 acres. There are about 37 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Pelham Lake Park (15.8 mi) and Tunnel Road Conservation Area (0.9 mi).

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

At a glance

Rowe outdoors

Conserved land
27%
4,067 of 15,279 acres
Trails
37 mi
1.5 mi per sq mi · 20 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
7
named on the map
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

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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.
1

Pelham Lake Park

Nature preserve
1,303 acres15.8 mi of trail
Davis Mine LoopDead Moose TrailDavenport Trail1792 TrailLakeview Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
2

Tunnel Road Conservation Area

Nature preserve
95 acres0.9 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
3

Rowe State Forest

Nature preserve
256 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
4

Conservation Area

Nature preserve
195 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
All 7 parks & preserves
  • Maxwell Brook Wildlife Management Area166 ac
  • Rowe Town Forest91 ac
  • Harriet Carpenter Read Forest83 ac
Who protects the land

4,067 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State parks
1,242 ac
Land trusts & nonprofits
1,066 ac
Town or city
1 ac
Not recorded
2,123 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 1,943 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. 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

  • Tennis2
  • Baseball1

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

Next door

Rowe and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Rowe26.6%36.8 mi7
Florida39.8%34.9 mi6
Monroe43.9%13.2 mi1
Charlemont22.7%42.3 mi3
Heath21.9%3.2 mi9
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Rowe'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 20.8-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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