Outdoors · Ashland

Ashland, ME parks, trails & bike paths

About 2.6% of Ashland is conserved land, roughly 1,334 acres. There are about 45 miles of mapped trails.

Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Ashland, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.

At a glance

Ashland outdoors

Conserved land
2.6%
1,334 of 51,828 acres
Trails
45 mi
0.6 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
2
1,235 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
0.0 mi
0.0 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

12
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.
1

Ashland Public Reserved Land

Nature preserve
1,049 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
2

Butler Island Wildlife Management Area

Managed by Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife
270 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Who protects the land

1,334 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State parks
1,049 ac
State fish & wildlife
270 ac
Land trusts & nonprofits
15 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 15 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 1 of 5 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 paths0.0 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi

Courts & fields

  • Basketball4
  • Baseball2
  • Tennis1
  • Soccer1
  • Softball1

Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.

Nearby

Ashland and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Ashland2.6%44.9 mi2
Castle Hill0.9%21.0 mi1
Garfield plantation4.5%39.1 mi1
Nashville plantation4.2%31.5 mi2
Masardis2%32.6 mi1
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Ashland'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 29.5-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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