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Salem Town Forest
Managed by Town of Salem
352 acres5.5 mi of trail
LADIC
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the trailhead
Outdoors · Salem
Salem, NH parks, trails & bike paths
About 9.4% of Salem is conserved land, roughly 1,550 acres. There are about 13 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Salem Town Forest (5.5 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Salem, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Salem outdoors
Conserved land
9.4%
1,550 of 16,469 acres
Trails
13 mi
0.5 mi per sq mi · 6 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
8
50 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
3.7 mi
1.7 mi lanes · 1.9 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
Michele Memorial Park
Park
47 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
3
Millville Street Wetland
Managed by Salem Recreation Department
46 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
4
Hedgehog Park
Managed by Town of Salem
28 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
All 8 parks & preserves
- Field of Dreams22 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
- Morse Field16 ac · Directions
- Palmer Field9 ac
- Windham Town Forest7 ac
Who protects the land
1,550 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 444 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 62 of 69 parcels. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes1.7 mi
- Off-road bike paths1.9 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
- Salem Bike-Ped Corridor (bike route)2.8 mi
Courts & fields
- Baseball13
- Tennis6
- Basketball4
- Soccer3
- Skate park1
- Football1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Salem and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Salem'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 22.1-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.