Outdoors · Chelsea

Chelsea, ME parks, trails & bike paths

About 3.4% of Chelsea is conserved land, roughly 436 acres. There are about 8.0 miles of mapped trails.

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

At a glance

Chelsea outdoors

Conserved land
3.4%
436 of 12,704 acres
Trails
8.0 mi
0.4 mi per sq mi · 2 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
2
154 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

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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

Butternut Park

Park
2 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
2

Judy Kane Preserve

Managed by Kennebec Land Trust
1 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Who protects the land

436 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Other or Unknown Federal Land
430 ac
Regional agency
5 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. Public access isn't recorded for 2 of 3 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

  • Tennis1
  • Soccer1
  • Baseball1
  • Basketball1
  • Softball1

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

Next door

Chelsea and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Chelsea3.4%8.0 mi2
Hallowell11.9%6.8 mi7
Farmingdale1.5%0.7 mi3
Pittston0.3%2.9 mi3
Randolph0%1.7 mi0
Augusta14.2%54.8 mi26
Whitefield6.4%15.8 mi7
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Chelsea'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.

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