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Musquash Conservation Area
Managed by Hudson Conservation Commission
479 acres7.5 mi of trail
Musquash Brook TrailGumpus Pond Loop Trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Outdoors · Hudson
Hudson, NH parks, trails & bike paths
About 7.9% of Hudson is conserved land, roughly 1,476 acres. There are about 43 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Musquash Conservation Area (7.5 mi), Benson Park (4 mi), and Hudson Town Forest (1 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Hudson, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Hudson outdoors
Conserved land
7.9%
1,476 of 18,613 acres
Trails
43 mi
1.5 mi per sq mi · 13 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
17
58 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
0.4 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 0.4 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
Benson Park
Park
165 acres4 mi of trail
Haselton Farm TrailAcorn TrailOak Ridge TrailMoose Pond TrailMeadow View Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3
Hudson Town Forest
Managed by Town of Hudson
54 acres1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
4
Gumpas Pond Conservation Area
Managed by Pelham Forestry Commission
23 acres0.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
All 17 parks & preserves
- Jette Field5 ac · 0.2 mi trail · Directions
- Bennie Eaton Hill Family Forest44 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Sousa Field4 ac · 0.1 mi trail
- Colburn Town Forest52 ac
- Leslie C. Bockes Memorial Forest45 ac
- Parker Wildlife Sanctuary45 ac
- Merrill Park9 ac
- Merrifield Park9 ac
- Greeley Park4 ac
- Hudson Kiwanis Recreation Park2 ac · Directions
- Town of Hudson Skate Park1 ac · Directions
- Library Park1 ac · Directions
- Hammond Park1 ac
Who protects the land
1,476 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 250 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 36 of 45 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 paths0.4 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Courts & fields
- Tennis28
- Baseball15
- Basketball12
- Pickleball4
- Soccer3
- Football2
- Skate park1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Hudson and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
| Town | Conserved | Trails | Parks & preserves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hudson | 7.9% | 42.5 mi | 17 |
| Windham | 7.5% | 48.6 mi | 13 |
| Nashua | 13.1% | 45.7 mi | 44 |
| Pelham | 12.1% | 47.9 mi | 27 |
| Londonderry | 14.9% | 66.4 mi | 9 |
| Litchfield | 13.5% | 16.4 mi | 17 |
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Hudson'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 21.6-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.