Outdoors · Fairfield

Fairfield, ME parks, trails & bike paths

About 2.3% of Fairfield is conserved land, roughly 809 acres. There are about 26 miles of mapped trails.

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

At a glance

Fairfield outdoors

Conserved land
2.3%
809 of 34,705 acres
Trails
26 mi
0.5 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
6
124 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
9.8 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 9.8 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

Mill Island Park

Park
9 acres0.3 mi of trail
Mill Loop Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
2

Martin Stream Wildlife Management Area

Managed by Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife
211 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
3

PAL Athletic Fields

Park
43 acres0.2 mi of trail
Cattail Trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
4

Kennebec River Access - Shawmut

Park
31 acres0.2 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Who protects the land

809 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Land trusts & nonprofits
892 ac
State fish & wildlife
287 ac
Town or city
67 ac
Regional agency
7 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 447 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 4 of 11 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 paths9.8 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi

Courts & fields

  • Baseball5
  • Soccer4
  • Tennis4
  • Basketball2
  • Football1

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

Nearby

Fairfield and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Fairfield2.3%25.8 mi6
Benton2.9%1.4 mi1
Clinton1.1%19.2 mi2
Smithfield2.9%23.2 mi1
Norridgewock0.7%33.4 mi2
Skowhegan6.3%53.6 mi21
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Fairfield'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 29.4-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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