1
J.J. Round Park
Park
55 acres1.6 mi of trail
Blue Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · Wakefield
Wakefield, MA parks, trails & bike paths
About 12% of Wakefield is conserved land, roughly 602 acres. There are about 11 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in J.J. Round Park (1.6 mi), Wakefield Town Forest (1.2 mi), and Breakheart Reservation (0.9 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Wakefield, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Wakefield outdoors
Conserved land
12%
602 of 5,088 acres
Trails
11 mi
1.4 mi per sq mi · 8 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
20
22 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
3.3 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 2.5 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
Wakefield Town Forest
Nature preserve
44 acres1.2 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3
Breakheart Reservation
Nature preserve
32 acres0.9 mi of trail
Ridge Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4
Reedy Meadow
Managed by Town of Lynnfield;Town of Wakefield
135 acres0.6 mi of trail
Reedy Meadow Path
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
5
Mapleway Playground
Park
9 acres0.5 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
6
Spring Street Park
Park
12 acres0.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
7
Hall Park
Park
4 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
All 20 parks & preserves
- Lower Common7 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Veterans Field5 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Old Town Wells58 ac
- Sullivan Memorial Park19 ac · Directions
- Quannapowitt Lakeshore7 ac · Directions
- Moulton Field5 ac · Directions
- Mill River Floodplain5 ac
- Nasella Field4 ac · Directions
- Crystal Lake Watershed4 ac
- Little League Field4 ac · Directions
- Conservation Land4 ac
- Colonel Connelly Park / Gertrude Spaulding Park3 ac · Directions
- Upper Common3 ac · Directions
Who protects the land
602 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 3 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 1 of 53 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 paths2.5 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.8 mi
Courts & fields
- Baseball16
- Basketball11
- Tennis10
- Soccer5
- Skate park1
- Softball1
- Football1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Wakefield and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Wakefield'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.