1
Spring Hill Farm
Nature preserve
144 acres2.4 mi of trail
spring hill trailloop 1loop 2
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Outdoors · Chester
Chester, NH parks, trails & bike paths
About 19% of Chester is conserved land, roughly 3,070 acres. There are about 34 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Spring Hill Farm (2.4 mi) and Wason Pond Conservation & Recreation Area (0.7 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Chester, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Chester outdoors
Conserved land
19%
3,070 of 16,614 acres
Trails
34 mi
1.3 mi per sq mi · 8 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
4
579 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
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.
2
Wason Pond Conservation & Recreation Area
Managed by Town of Chester
99 acres0.7 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
3
Forsaith Forest
Managed by Town of Chester
65 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
4
Manchester Waterworks
Managed by City of Manchester
1 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Who protects the land
3,070 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 1,013 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 33 of 65 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
- Tennis3
- Baseball3
- Basketball1
- Skate park1
- Soccer1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Chester and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Chester'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 22.9-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.