Howell Ave Park
Park
1 acres
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Outdoors in Fords
Parks, trails & the outdoors in Fords
About 1.1% of Fords is conserved land, roughly 14 acres. Fords has 1 named park and preserve on the map.
Conserved land
1.1%
14 of 1,203 acres
Trails
0.1 mi
0.1 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
1
1 conserved acres per 1,000 people
Bike routes
0.5 mi
0.5 mi paths
The map
Conserved land, trails & bike routes
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Easements protect land from building but are usually private.© OpenStreetMap contributors · USGS PAD-US
Places to walk
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Directions go to the nearest trailhead or public parking.
Things to do
5 places to go in Fords
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Playgrounds in Fords
Who protects it
14 conserved acres
Who manages Fords’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
County5 ac
Town or city5 ac
Other or Unknown Local Government4 ac
Local Park · 13 ac
The biggest protected places
| Place | Managed by | Acres | Public access |
|---|---|---|---|
| Middlesex County Rail To Trail Local Park | County | 5 | Open |
| Woodbridge Township Park Local Park | Town or city | 5 | Open |
| Highland Grove Pool - Div Local Park | Other or Unknown Local Government | 4 | Open |
Biking & sports
0.5 miles of bike routes
Bike lanes are often missing from the map in smaller towns, so that number is likely low.
0.0 mi
painted or protected bike lanes
0.5 mi
off-road bike paths
0.0 mi
shoulders & shared lanes
Courts & fields
4Tennis
1Baseball
1Basketball
Includes school and college facilities, which aren’t always open to the public.
History along the way
History →2 old cemeteries
Next door
Fords and its neighbors
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| Town | Conserved | Parks |
|---|---|---|
| Fords | 1.1% | 1 |
| Woodbridge | 4.5% | 19 |
| Edison | 4.9% | 21 |
| Hopelawn | 0% | 1 |
Trail talk
Conditions, parking and favorite walks from Fords neighbors.
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Trails, parks, preserves, courts and bike lanes © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), map data as of 2026-09-28. Conserved land: USGS Gap Analysis Project, 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.