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Plaistow Town Forest
Managed by Plaistow Conservation Commission
419 acres9.7 mi of trail
Skunk SkullYellowRedCarlton PathWhite
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Outdoors · Plaistow
Plaistow, NH parks, trails & bike paths
About 12% of Plaistow is conserved land, roughly 818 acres. There are about 15 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Plaistow Town Forest (9.7 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Plaistow, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Plaistow outdoors
Conserved land
12%
818 of 6,740 acres
Trails
15 mi
1.4 mi per sq mi · 10 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
6
104 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
2.1 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 2.1 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
Plaistow Athletic Recreation Complex
Park
28 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
3
Plaistow Town Green
Park
2 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4
Smith Field
Park
2 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
All 6 parks & preserves
- Valley Lane Town Forest1 ac
- Hampstead Town Conservation Land1 ac
Who protects the land
818 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 442 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 28 of 31 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 paths2.1 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Courts & fields
- Baseball9
- Tennis4
- Beach volleyball4
- Softball2
- Field hockey1
- Soccer1
- Football1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Plaistow and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Plaistow'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 20-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.