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Salisbury Salt Marsh Wildlife Management Area
Managed by Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife
951 acres1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · Salisbury
Salisbury, MA parks, trails & bike paths
About 17% of Salisbury is conserved land, roughly 1,889 acres. There are about 16 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Salisbury Salt Marsh WMA (1 mi), Sheep's Rock (0.8 mi), and Forest Road Woodlands (0.7 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Salisbury, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Salisbury outdoors
Conserved land
17%
1,889 of 11,307 acres
Trails
16 mi
0.9 mi per sq mi · 5 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
22
204 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
6.6 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 6.4 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
Sheep's Rock
Managed by Essex County Greenbelt Association
14 acres0.8 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
3
Forest Road Woodlands
Managed by Essex County Greenbelt Associations
14 acres0.7 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
4
Stevens Conservation Area
Managed by Salisbury Conservation Commission
73 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
All 22 parks & preserves
- Conservation Land29 ac · 0.1 mi trail
- Salisbury Town Common2 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Carr Island Sanctuary72 ac
- Conservation Area31 ac
- Ram Island State Wildlife Sanctuary27 ac
- Jones Property20 ac · Directions
- Partridge Brook Park18 ac
- Messenger Marsh14 ac
- Chase Property14 ac · Directions
- Marshland12 ac
- Barnes Island11 ac
- Lions Park10 ac · Directions
- Herbert E. True III Memorial Marsh9 ac
- Beach Field7 ac · Directions
- Eagle Island Wildlife Management Area4 ac
- Ash Swamp4 ac
- Memorial Field3 ac · Directions
- Marsh1 ac
Who protects the land
1,889 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 111 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 4 of 77 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 paths6.4 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.2 mi
Courts & fields
- Baseball3
- Tennis2
- Skate park2
- Basketball1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Salisbury and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
| Town | Conserved | Trails | Parks & preserves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salisbury | 16.7% | 15.9 mi | 22 |
| Newburyport | 16.8% | 39.1 mi | 28 |
| Seabrook | 7.8% | 8.0 mi | 6 |
| Amesbury | 10.6% | 33.5 mi | 34 |
| South Hampton | 10% | 6.2 mi | 7 |
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Salisbury'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.