Gleason Family Wildlife Preser
Nature preserve
48 acres0.9 mi of trail
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Outdoors in Wareham Center
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About 16% of Wareham Center is conserved land, roughly 223 acres. There are about 1.9 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Gleason Family Wildlife Preser (0.9 mi).
Conserved land
16%
223 of 1,365 acres
Trails
1.9 mi
0.9 mi per sq mi · 2 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
10
61 conserved acres per 1,000 people
Bike routes
0.0 mi
Lakes & rivers
1
13 beaches · 2 boat launches
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Easements protect land from building but are usually private.© OpenStreetMap contributors · USGS PAD-US
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The longest trail network is Gleason Family Wildlife Preser, with 0.9 miles. Directions go to the nearest trailhead or public parking.
Eldridge And Brown
Nature preserve
6 acres0.3 mi of trail
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Marks Cove
Nature preserve
25 acres0.2 mi of trail
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Broad Marsh
Nature preserve
12 acres
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
All 10 parks & preserves
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Gleason Family Wildlife Preser48 acres · 0.9 mi of trail
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Eldridge And Brown6 acres · 0.3 mi of trail
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Marks Cove25 acres · 0.2 mi of trail
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Broad Marsh12 acres
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Swifts Beach Road6 acres
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Conant Hill5 acres
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Thomas Salt Meadow3 acres
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Cromesett Neck2 acres
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Mary Besse Park and Pier1 acres
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Cedar Island1 acres
Trails & water
1 lakes & rivers
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Who protects it
223 conserved acres
Who manages Wareham Center’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Town or city25 ac
USDA easements (NRCS)14 ac
Not recorded198 ac
Private Conservation · 79 acResearch or Educational Area · 62 acLocal Other or Unknown · 56 acConservation Easement · 39 acWatershed Protection Area · 1 ac
Good to know
Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors. 22 acres are conservation easements, usually private land. The walks above are places people visit.
The biggest protected places
| Place | Managed by | Acres | Public access |
|---|---|---|---|
| Junior/Senior High School Research or Educational Area | Not recorded | 62 | Open |
| Gleason Family Wildlife Preserve Private Conservation | Not recorded | 48 | Open |
| Marks Cove Private Conservation | Not recorded | 17 | Open |
| Swifts Beach Local Other or Unknown | Not recorded | 15 | Open |
| Broad Marsh Local Other or Unknown | Not recorded | 12 | Open |
| Stoney Run Conservation Area Local Other or Unknown | Not recorded | 11 | Open |
| Bodfish Avenue Conservation Area Private Conservation | Not recorded | 9 | Open |
| Swifts Beach Road Local Other or Unknown | Not recorded | 6 | Open |
| Eldridge And Brown Private Conservation | Not recorded | 6 | Open |
| Thomas Salt Meadow Local Other or Unknown | Not recorded | 3 | Open |
5 smaller protected places aren’t shown.
Biking & sports
0.0 miles of bike routes
Bike lanes are often missing from the map in smaller towns, so that number is likely low.
0.0 mi
painted or protected bike lanes
0.0 mi
off-road bike paths
0.0 mi
shoulders & shared lanes
Courts & fields
3Baseball
3Tennis
2Basketball
1Football
Includes school and college facilities, which aren’t always open to the public.
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Wareham Center and its neighbors
Wareham Center has the most mapped trails of the 2 towns around it. Tap a town to see its outdoors.
| Town | Conserved | Parks |
|---|---|---|
| Wareham Center | 16.3% | 10 |
| Weweantic | 8.4% | 7 |
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Trails, parks, preserves, courts and bike lanes © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), map data as of 2026-09-28. Conserved land: USGS Gap Analysis Project, 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.