1
French's Ledges
Managed by Upper Valley Land Trust
138 acres2.9 mi of trail
Frenchs Ledges TrailColby Hill TrailNot So (Inclined)SwitchbackColby Connector
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Outdoors · Plainfield
Plainfield, NH parks, trails & bike paths
About 14% of Plainfield is conserved land, roughly 4,627 acres. There are about 78 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in French's Ledges (2.9 mi), Farnum Lot Trails (2.3 mi), and Townsend Lot (1.6 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Plainfield, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Plainfield outdoors
Conserved land
14%
4,627 of 33,712 acres
Trails
78 mi
1.5 mi per sq mi · 19 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
14
1,835 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
Farnum Lot Trails
Managed by Upper Valley Land Trust
87 acres2.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
3
Townsend Lot
Managed by Town of Plainfield
67 acres1.6 mi of trail
Rattlin' Bog LoopBrook LoopFrench's Ledges TrailSecret TrailRattlin' Bog Extension
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
4
Helen Woodruff Smith Bird Sanctuary
Managed by Meriden Bird Club
32 acres1.4 mi of trail
Baynes TrailTrail to MeadowPeg's LoopDuncan TrailIra's Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
5
Snow Mountain Conservation Area
Managed by Upper Valley Land Trust
131 acres0.8 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Website
6
Annie Duncan State Forest
Managed by New Hampshire Division of Forests and Lands
108 acres0.7 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
7
Michael M. & Claudia Yatsevitch Forest
Managed by Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests
582 acres0.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
8
Benson Lot
Managed by Town of Plainfield
113 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
All 14 parks & preserves
- Spencer Lot105 ac
- Plainfield Sanctuary79 ac
- Hart Island35 ac
- Victor Hewes Memorial Field19 ac
- Moulton Trail8 ac
- Cory Taber Park2 ac · Directions
Who protects the land
4,627 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 3,302 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 43 of 48 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
- Soccer9
- Tennis6
- Baseball1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Plainfield and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Plainfield'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 29.9-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.