Outdoors · Worcester
Share Worcester, MA parks, trails & bike paths
About 10% of Worcester is conserved land, roughly 2,507 acres. There are about 71 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Green Hill Park (6.8 mi), Broad Meadow Brook Wildlife Sanctuary (6.2 mi), and Bovenzi Conservation Area (2.3 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Worcester, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
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Conserved land
10%
2,507 of 24,451 acres
Trails
71 mi
1.8 mi per sq mi · 44 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
75
12 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
24.8 mi
15.8 mi lanes · 3.5 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.
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Conserved land, trails & bike routes
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Places to walk
Parks & preserves with trails
Ranked by mapped trail miles. Directions go to the nearest marked trailhead or public parking.
450 acres6.8 mi of trail
East Side Trail (blue rctgl.) Ghost Trail (white rctgl.) Millstone Trail (blue circl.) Ledge Loop (red rctgl.) Brook Loop (red rctgl.)
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
2 Broad Meadow Brook Wildlife Sanctuary Managed by Mass Audubon
436 acres6.2 mi of trail
Cardinal Trail Holdredge Trail Power Line Trail Blue Well Trail Sprague Trail
🐕 Dogs usually not allowedTypical for Audubon sanctuaries. Check posted rules
3 Bovenzi Conservation Area Nature preserve
123 acres2.3 mi of trail
East-West Path (yellow tri.) North-South Path (blue rect.) Lavender 'C' Red circle Gold star
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
4 Crow Hill & Fitzgerald Brook Conservation Restriction Nature preserve
62 acres2.2 mi of trail
Red Circle Blazed Loop Trail Silver Trail Crow Hill Loop Yellow Rectangle Trail
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
75 acres1.9 mi of trail
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
6 Newton Hill at Elm Park Park
38 acres1.7 mi of trail
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
7 Hadwen Arboretum Managed by Clark University
27 acres1.5 mi of trail
East-West Trail Appleton Trail Larch Lane Trail Hidden Spring Trail Magnolia Trail
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
19 acres1.5 mi of trail
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
All 75 parks & preserves
Showing 1–10 of 75 parks & preserves
🌳 Green Hill Park 450 acres · 6.8 mi of trail
🌲 Broad Meadow Brook Wildlife Sanctuary 436 acres · 6.2 mi of trail · Mass Audubon
🌲 Bovenzi Conservation Area 123 acres · 2.3 mi of trail
🌲 Crow Hill & Fitzgerald Brook Conservation Restriction 62 acres · 2.2 mi of trail
🌳 Lake Park 75 acres · 1.9 mi of trail
🌳 Newton Hill at Elm Park 38 acres · 1.7 mi of trail
🌲 Hadwen Arboretum 27 acres · 1.5 mi of trail · Clark University
🌳 Elm Park 19 acres · 1.5 mi of trail
🌲 Perkins Farm 61 acres · 1.4 mi of trail
🌲 God's Acre 105 acres · 1.3 mi of trail
Things to do
Beaches, playgrounds, falls & more
Pick a kind of place for the list, directions, or pins on the map above.
Peaks in Worcester Show all on map
Showing 1–10 of 21 peaks
⛰️ Eddy Hill 1,047 ft elevation
⛰️ Winter Hill 896 ft elevation
⛰️ Moreland Hill 817 ft elevation
⛰️ Indian Hill 801 ft elevation
⛰️ Stratton Hill 801 ft elevation
⛰️ Laurel Mt. 791 ft elevation · In Bovenzi Conservation Area
⛰️ Hancock Hill 764 ft elevation
⛰️ Green Hill 758 ft elevation · In Green Hill Park
⛰️ Crown Hill 751 ft elevation · In Green Hill Park
⛰️ Millstone Hill 751 ft elevation · In Green Hill Park
Trails
Named trails
Open to bikes 3.2 mi Unpaved 27.1 mi
Showing 1–10 of 25 trails
East Side Trail (blue rctgl.) 3.1 mi East-West Trail 2.0 mi East-West Trail (blue sq) 1.1 mi Tetasset Hills Trail (red sq) 1.0 mi Cascades Trail 0.9 mi Woonaskachu's Path (blue rctgl.) 0.8 mi Smiley Face Trail 0.8 mi Cardinal Trail 0.7 mi Red Circle Trail 0.7 mi East-West Path (yellow tri.) 0.7 mi Water
Lakes & rivers
Showing 1–10 of 23 places
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Who protects the land
2,507 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Land trusts & nonprofits
777 ac Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 567 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 7 of 232 parcels. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
Painted or protected bike lanes 15.8 mi Off-road bike paths 3.5 mi Shoulders & shared lanes 5.4 mi
Courts & fields Tennis 92 Basketball 69 Baseball 68 Soccer 25 Football 13 Pickleball 8 Softball 5 Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Public lands
The biggest protected places in Worcester
From USGS PAD-US: who manages each one and whether visitors are welcome.
Conservation Easement 900 ac Local Other or Unknown 708 ac Local Park 445 ac Private Conservation 296 ac Unknown Easement 211 ac
Showing 1–10 of 15 places
Place Managed by Acres Public access
Hope Cemetery Local Historic or Cultural Area Not recorded 195 Open Broad Meadow Brook Local Other or Unknown Not recorded 144 Open Gods Acre Local Other or Unknown Not recorded 131 Open Broad Meadow Brook Wildlife Santuary Private Conservation Not recorded 123 Open Perkins Farm Local Other or Unknown Not recorded 77 Open Lake Park Local Park Town or city 74 Open Notre Dame Cemetery Private Historic or Cultural Not recorded 70 Restricted Cascade Park Local Park Not recorded 67 Open St Johns Cemetery Private Historic or Cultural Not recorded 64 Restricted Elm Park Local Park Town or city 57 Open
History
Historic places to visit
Showing 1–10 of 87 places
🏛️ 1954 Tornado Memorial Memorial
🏛️ 32 Degree Masonic Learning Center Building
🏛️ Abbott Street School Building
🏛️ Amos Flagg House Building
🏛️ Ash Street School Building
🏛️ Bancroft Tower In Salisbury Park · Monument
🏛️ Bancroft Tower In Salisbury Park · Memorial · 1900
Nearby
Share Worcester and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
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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 27-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.
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