Outdoors · Hopkinton

Hopkinton, NH parks, trails & bike paths

About 28% of Hopkinton is conserved land, roughly 7,885 acres. There are about 58 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Hopkinton-Everett Reservoir (18.5 mi), Mast Yard State Forest (3 mi), and Elm Brook Park (2.8 mi).

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

At a glance

Hopkinton outdoors

Conserved land
28%
7,885 of 28,677 acres
Trails
58 mi
1.3 mi per sq mi · 36 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
23
1,306 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
5.2 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 5.2 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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Places to walk

Parks & preserves with trails

Ranked by mapped trail miles. Directions go to the nearest marked trailhead or public parking.
1

Hopkinton-Everett Reservoir

Managed by United States Army Corps of Engineers
2,666 acres18.5 mi of trail
Sharpes Farm TrailTufkatBig DogSwamp ThangOld Route 202
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
2

Mast Yard State Forest

Managed by New Hampshire Division of Forests and Lands
591 acres3 mi of trail
Concord & Claremont
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
3

Elm Brook Park

Managed by United States Army Corps of Engineers
144 acres2.8 mi of trail
Gateway Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot Website
4

Hawthorne Town Forest

Managed by Town of Hopkinton
110 acres1.6 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
5

Bohanan Farm East

Nature preserve
134 acres1.3 mi of trail
Blackwater River LoopContoocook Overlook Trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
6

Ransmeier Woods

Managed by Town of Hopkinton
63 acres1.1 mi of trail
Orange LoopBlue Loop
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
7

Rollins Lot

Managed by Town of Hopkinton
46 acres1.1 mi of trail
Little Tooky TrailConcord & Claremont
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
8

Bohanan Farm West

Nature preserve
276 acres0.7 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
All 23 parks & preserves
  • John Brockway Nature Preserve132 ac · 0.6 mi trail
  • Horne Town Forest15 ac · 0.5 mi trail
  • Samuel Myron Chase Wildlife Sanctuary500 ac · 0.4 mi trail
  • Houston Park69 ac · 0.2 mi trail · Directions
  • Riverway Park2 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
  • Smith Pond Bog Wildlife Sanctuary60 ac
  • Bermuda Harris Conservation Land56 ac
  • Kimball Lake Recreation Area43 ac
  • Dustin Conservation Easement37 ac
  • Goodwin-Chandler State Forest29 ac
  • George Park15 ac · Directions
  • Kimball Pond Recreation Area8 ac
  • Park Avenue Field6 ac · Directions
  • Broad Cove City Forest1 ac
  • Pages Corner State Forest1 ac
Who protects the land

7,885 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
State natural resources
3,020 ac
Land trusts & nonprofits
2,903 ac
Army Corps of Engineers
433 ac
Other state land
415 ac
Town or city
56 ac
Joint
36 ac
Not recorded
1,031 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 3,582 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 38 of 49 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 paths5.2 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi

Courts & fields

  • Tennis9
  • Soccer5
  • Basketball4
  • Baseball3
  • Softball3
  • Beach volleyball1
  • Football1

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

Next door

Hopkinton and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Hopkinton27.5%58.0 mi23
Concord25.1%147.4 mi60
Bow20.9%80.4 mi21
Henniker12.9%60.1 mi18
Warner31.1%42.9 mi18
Webster19.1%22.9 mi11
Dunbarton30.3%40.4 mi9
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Hopkinton'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 28.3-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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