Outdoors · Scituate

Scituate, RI parks, trails & bike paths

About 32% of Scituate is conserved land, roughly 11,247 acres. There are about 4.7 miles of mapped trails.

Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Scituate, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.

At a glance

Scituate outdoors

Conserved land
32%
11,247 of 34,826 acres
Trails
4.7 mi
0.1 mi per sq mi · 4 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
5
1,069 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

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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.
1

Manning Field

Park
9 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
2

Hope Park

Park
7 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3

Hope Pond Recreational Area

Park
4 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4

Westconnaug Meadows

Park
3 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo Westconnaug Meadows
All 5 parks & preserves
  • Hope Village Green1 ac
Who protects the land

11,247 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Land trusts & nonprofits
327 ac
State conservation
278 ac
State natural resources
207 ac
Joint
122 ac
USDA easements (NRCS)
85 ac
Other state land
66 ac
Other or Unknown Federal Land
36 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 261 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 83 of 106 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

  • Tennis7
  • Baseball5
  • Basketball2

Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.

Next door

Scituate and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Scituate32.3%4.7 mi5
Foster13.6%14.3 mi3
Cranston6.5%16.2 mi13
Johnston6.3%25.7 mi3
Coventry18.1%37.9 mi11
Glocester19.2%49.2 mi4
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Scituate'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 26.3-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.

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