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Squannacook River Wildlife Management Area
Nature preserve
370 acres2.9 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · Shirley
Shirley, MA parks, trails & bike paths
About 28% of Shirley is conserved land, roughly 2,824 acres. There are about 27 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Squannacook River WMA (2.9 mi), Farandnear (2.5 mi), and Hunting Hills WMA (2.4 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Shirley, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Shirley outdoors
Conserved land
28%
2,824 of 10,110 acres
Trails
27 mi
1.7 mi per sq mi · 18 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
38
405 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
0.7 mi
0.5 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
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
Farandnear
Nature preserve
88 acres2.5 mi of trail
Far Boundary TrailWest Reservoir TrailRavine TrailLower DikeArbutus Path
Dog rules not recorded
3
Hunting Hills Wildlife Management Area
Nature preserve
135 acres2.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
4
Ronchetti Conservation Area
Nature preserve
90 acres2.4 mi of trail
Robbs Hill to Ronchetti
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
5
Valley Farm Wildlife Sanctuary
Nature preserve
198 acres2.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
6
Oxbow National Wildlife Refuge
Nature preserve
237 acres1.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
7
Mulpus Brook Wildlife Management Areas
Nature preserve
166 acres1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
8
Holden Road Conservation Area
Nature preserve
53 acres1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
All 38 parks & preserves
- Morse Conservation Area52 ac · 0.7 mi trail · Directions
- Old Town Line Conservation Area16 ac · 0.7 mi trail
- Townsend Road Land55 ac · 0.6 mi trail
- Hunting Hills Wildlife Conservation Easement31 ac · 0.6 mi trail
- Shirley Conservation25 ac · 0.4 mi trail
- Longley Farm Conservation Area74 ac · 0.3 mi trail
- Rich Tree Farm110 ac · 0.1 mi trail
- Whitley Park2 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Mulpus Brook Wildlife Management Area177 ac
- Pumpkin Brook134 ac
- Birchwood Hills86 ac · Directions
- Benjamin Hill Conservation Area40 ac · Directions
- Nashua River Access30 ac · Directions
- Hurd Property21 ac
- Squannacook Conservation Area18 ac
- Squannacook River Wildlife Conservation Easement18 ac · Directions
- Rust Conservation Area16 ac
- Dow Parcel16 ac
- Thompson Conservation Area16 ac
- Holdenwood Trust Cons. Area15 ac
- Executive Estates Open Space14 ac
- Spruce Swamp Conservation Area11 ac · Directions
- Groton Rd Land9 ac
- Lyon Bird Sanctuary7 ac
- Dopheide Conservation Area6 ac
- Rumbo Island3 ac
- Conservation Land2 ac · Directions
- Holden Trust Conservation Land1 ac
- Downey Conservation Area1 ac
- Mitchell Conservation Area1 ac
Who protects the land
2,824 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 735 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 6 of 135 parcels. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes0.5 mi
- Off-road bike paths0.0 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.2 mi
Courts & fields
- Baseball5
- Basketball4
- Soccer4
- Tennis1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Shirley and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Shirley'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.