1
MacLeish Field Station
Nature preserve
208 acres3.5 mi of trail
West Loop trailEast Loop trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Website
Outdoors · Whately
Whately, MA parks, trails & bike paths
About 31% of Whately is conserved land, roughly 4,048 acres. There are about 21 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in MacLeish Field Station (3.5 mi), Mt. Esther WMA (1.7 mi), and Whately Center Woods Nature Retreat (1.7 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Whately, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Whately outdoors
Conserved land
31%
4,048 of 13,147 acres
Trails
21 mi
1 mi per sq mi · 7 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
8
2,700 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
0.1 mi
0.1 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
Mt. Esther Wildlife Management Area
Managed by Department of Fish and Game
273 acres1.7 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
3
Whately Center Woods Nature Retreat
Nature preserve
118 acres1.7 mi of trail
Big Loop TrailShortcut Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4
Graves Farm Wildlife Sanctuary
Nature preserve
85 acres0.5 mi of trail
No dogsMapped in OpenStreetMap
No trailhead mapped yet
Website
All 8 parks & preserves
- Great Swamp Wildlife Management Area633 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Whately Wildlife Management Area409 ac
- Connecticut River Greenway State Park14 ac · Directions
- Herlihy Park10 ac · Directions
Who protects the land
4,048 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 1,423 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 14 of 177 parcels. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes0.1 mi
- Off-road bike paths0.0 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Courts & fields
- Baseball3
- Soccer1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Whately and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
| Town | Conserved | Trails | Parks & preserves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whately | 30.8% | 20.7 mi | 8 |
| Sunderland | 40.9% | 34.9 mi | 10 |
| Deerfield | 18.6% | 63.0 mi | 8 |
| Hatfield | 15.4% | 42.0 mi | 6 |
| Conway | 32.3% | 59.8 mi | 8 |
| Williamsburg | 28.7% | 39.1 mi | 10 |
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Whately'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.