Outdoors · Northfield

Northfield, ME parks, trails & bike paths

About 17% of Northfield is conserved land, roughly 4,823 acres. There are about 17 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Machias River Corridor Public Lands (0.5 mi).

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

At a glance

Northfield outdoors

Conserved land
17%
4,823 of 29,144 acres
Trails
17 mi
0.4 mi per sq mi · 2 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
2
named on the map
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

Machias River Corridor Public Lands

Managed by Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands
347 acres0.5 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
2

Bog Lake Access

Park
32 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Who protects the land

4,823 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Other or Unknown Local Government
4,418 ac
Other state land
4,308 ac
State parks
700 ac
State fish & wildlife
33 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 4,438 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 16 of 23 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
Nearby

Northfield and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Northfield16.5%17.0 mi2
Wesley14.1%18.3 mi1
Whitneyville5.9%13.7 mi1
Marshfield0.2%23.6 mi1
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Northfield'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 28.7-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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