Outdoors · Russell

Russell, MA parks, trails & bike paths

About 44% of Russell is conserved land, roughly 4,973 acres. There are about 19 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Tekoa Mountain WMA (6.8 mi) and Tekoa Park (1 mi).

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

At a glance

Russell outdoors

Conserved land
44%
4,973 of 11,389 acres
Trails
19 mi
1.1 mi per sq mi · 19 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
5
4,155 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

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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

Tekoa Mountain Wildlife Management Area

Nature preserve
798 acres6.8 mi of trail
Shatterack path (white)
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
2

Tekoa Park

Nature preserve
40 acres1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3

Blandford / Russell Wce (Loveland Lot)

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

Strathmore Park

Park
17 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
All 5 parks & preserves
Who protects the land

4,973 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Town or city
757 ac
Other state land
498 ac
USDA easements (NRCS)
249 ac
State natural resources
188 ac
State fish & wildlife
188 ac
Not recorded
4,126 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 788 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 3 of 30 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

  • Baseball2

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

Next door

Russell and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Russell43.7%19.4 mi5
Westfield16.8%30.5 mi50
Montgomery34.8%20.7 mi3
Blandford49.4%44.5 mi8
Granville50.9%46.0 mi6
Huntington27.7%35.8 mi9
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Russell'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.

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