1
Wellesley Town Forest
Nature preserve
129 acres4.3 mi of trail
Charles River PathEsker TrailLongfellow Pond Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo Longfellow Pond Parking Lot
Outdoors · Wellesley
Wellesley, MA parks, trails & bike paths
About 18% of Wellesley is conserved land, roughly 1,171 acres. There are about 41 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Wellesley Town Forest (4.3 mi), Centennial Reservation (2.9 mi), and Sudbury Aqueduct Trail (2.5 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Wellesley, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Wellesley outdoors
Conserved land
18%
1,171 of 6,700 acres
Trails
41 mi
3.9 mi per sq mi · 23 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
56
39 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
13.1 mi
1.6 mi lanes · 0.4 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
Centennial Reservation
Managed by Town of Wellesley
80 acres2.9 mi of trail
Centennial Park Trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
3
Sudbury Aqueduct Trail
Managed by Massachusetts Water Resources Authority
36 acres2.5 mi of trail
Sudbury Aqueduct PathSudbury PathGuernsey Path
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo Forest Parking Lot
4
Fuller Brook Park
Managed by Town of Wellesley
64 acres1.9 mi of trail
Brook Path
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
5
North 40
Managed by Town of Wellesley
47 acres1.6 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
6
Morses Pond Land
Managed by Town of Wellesley
38 acres1.2 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
7
Boulder Brook Reservation
Nature preserve
32 acres1.1 mi of trail
Boulder Brook Reservation Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
8
Rocky Ledges
Nature preserve
15 acres0.9 mi of trail
Boulder Brook Reservation Trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
All 56 parks & preserves
- Hunnewell Fields35 ac · 0.8 mi trail · Directions
- Guernsey Sanctuary30 ac · 0.6 mi trail
- Carisbrooke Reservation11 ac · 0.6 mi trail
- Kelly Memorial Park19 ac · 0.5 mi trail · Directions
- H.H. Hunnewell Arboretum12 ac · 0.5 mi trail · Directions
- Susan Lee Memorial Sanctuary8 ac · 0.4 mi trail
- Beebe Meadow7 ac · 0.4 mi trail
- Hunnewell Park15 ac · 0.3 mi trail · Directions
- Alexandra Botanical Garden10 ac · 0.3 mi trail · Directions
- Ollie Turner Park7 ac · 0.3 mi trail
- Alumnae Valley6 ac · 0.3 mi trail · Directions
- Rockridge Pond5 ac · 0.2 mi trail
- Morses Pond Beach4 ac · 0.2 mi trail · Directions
- Hemlock Gorge Reservation1 ac · 0.2 mi trail · Directions
- Sprague Field25 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Severance Green4 ac · 0.1 mi trail
- McKinnon Park4 ac · 0.1 mi trail
- Brown Park2 ac · 0.1 mi trail
- Morton Park2 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- The Waterway1 ac · 0.1 mi trail
- Heyl Sanctuary1 ac · 0.1 mi trail
- Overbrook Reservation10 ac · Directions
- Wellesley Conservation Land10 ac · Directions
- Wellesley Water Land9 ac
- Colburn Road Reservation7 ac · Directions
- Perrin Park6 ac · Directions
- Wright Pond Land6 ac
- Indian Springs Park6 ac
- Baird Marsh5 ac
- Abbott Pond Land4 ac
- Simons Park4 ac · Directions
- Farms Station South3 ac · Directions
- Warren Park3 ac · Directions
- Ouellet Park2 ac
- Munger Meadow2 ac
- Phillips Park2 ac · Directions
- Cold Spring Brook Sanctuary2 ac · Directions
- Sawyer Park2 ac
- Farm Station Pond Land2 ac
- Walker Woods1 ac
- Yotz Field1 ac
- Elm Park1 ac · Directions
- Pickle Point1 ac
- Overbrook Park East1 ac
- Babson Centennial Park1 ac · Directions
- Pine Point1 ac
- Devil's Slide1 ac
- Post Office Square1 ac · Directions
Who protects the land
1,171 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 164 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 3 of 129 parcels. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes1.6 mi
- Off-road bike paths0.4 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes11.2 mi
Courts & fields
- Tennis48
- Baseball14
- Basketball12
- Soccer9
- Softball4
- Pickleball4
- Lacrosse2
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Wellesley and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Wellesley'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.