Outdoors · Holden

Holden, ME parks, trails & bike paths

About 1.1% of Holden is conserved land, roughly 231 acres. There are about 13 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Fields Pond Audubon Center (1.7 mi).

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

At a glance

Holden outdoors

Conserved land
1.1%
231 of 20,677 acres
Trails
13 mi
0.4 mi per sq mi · 4 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
1
69 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
5.0 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.
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Fields Pond Audubon Center

Nature preserve
69 acres1.7 mi of trail
Marsh TrailRavine TrailBrook TrailPocket Field Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Who protects the land

231 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Land trusts & nonprofits
323 ac
State conservation
70 ac
Not recorded
1 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 160 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 3 of 4 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 lanes5.0 mi

Courts & fields

  • Basketball1
  • Baseball1

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

Next door

Holden and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Holden1.1%13.4 mi1
Eddington15.5%9.4 mi0
Orrington1%37.1 mi2
Brewer10.4%11.9 mi10
Dedham6.8%18.9 mi2
Bucksport0%45.0 mi7
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Holden'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 24.4-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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