1
Meisel Avenue Park
Park
25 acres1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · Springfield
Springfield, NJ parks, trails & bike paths
About 16% of Springfield is conserved land, roughly 516 acres. There are about 6.8 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Meisel Avenue Park (1 mi) and Hidden Valley Park (0.8 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Springfield, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Springfield outdoors
Conserved land
16%
516 of 3,293 acres
Trails
6.8 mi
1.3 mi per sq mi · 3 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
10
30 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
0.3 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 0.3 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
Hidden Valley Park
Nature preserve
234 acres0.8 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
3
Watchung Reservation
Park
28 acres0.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
4
Patriot Park
Park
11 acres0.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
All 10 parks & preserves
Meisel Avenue Park25 acres · 1 mi of trail
Hidden Valley Park234 acres · 0.8 mi of trail
Watchung Reservation28 acres · 0.4 mi of trail
Patriot Park11 acres · 0.4 mi of trail
Springfield Veterans Memorial Park2 acres · 0.1 mi of trail
Briant Park7 acres
Ruby Park4 acres
Washington Avenue Park3 acres
Denham Park1 acres
Charles Cohn Memorial Park1 acres
Who protects the land
516 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 19 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. 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 paths0.3 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Courts & fields
- Baseball7
- Tennis7
- Basketball5
- Football3
- Soccer2
- Golf1
- Lacrosse1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Nearby
Springfield and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Springfield'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.