Parks and Open Spaces near Newton

The mileage figures are from Newton City Hall to the park.

See this list sorted in order of distance from Newton.

	Cape Cod National Seashore

National Parks, Seashores, Refuges, and Reservations

• Assabet River National Wildlife Refuge (Hudson; 15 miles)
• Minuteman National Historical Park (Lexington; 12 miles)
• Blackstone River Valley National Historic Corridor (Worcester to Providence; 35-45 miles)
• Boston Harbor Islands (Boston; 10 miles to the ferries)
• Cape Cod National Seashore (105 miles to visitor center)
• Essex National Heritage Area (North Shore; 20-50 miles)
• Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site (Brookline; 6 miles)
• Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge (Concord and Sudbury; 16 and 13 miles)
• Oxbow National Wildlife Refuge (Harvard; 34 miles)
• Parker River National Wildlife Refuge (Plum Island, Newburyport; 50 miles)

Massachusetts State Parks and Reservations

• Ames Nowell (Abington; 29 miles)
• Ashland (Ashland; 18 miles)
• Beaver Brook Reservation (Belmont; 6 miles)
• Belle Isle Marsh Reservation (East Boston; 15 miles)
• Blackstone River and Canal Heritage State Park (Uxbridge; 39 miles)
• Blue Hills Reservation (Milton; 15 miles)
• Borderland (Sharon; 23 miles)
• Boston Harbor Islands (Boston; 10 miles to the ferries)

	Great Brook Farm

• Bradley Palmer (Topsfield; 36 miles)
• Breakheart Reservation (Saugus; 19 miles)
• Burrage Pond WMA (Hanson; 37 miles)
• Callahan (Framingham; 16 miles)
• Castle Island (Boston; 11 miles)
• Charles River Reservation (Newton to Boston; 2 miles)
• Cochituate (Natick; 10 miles)
• Dorchester Shores Reservation (Dorchester; 14 miles)
• Elm Bank (Wellesley; 8 miles)
• Ellisville Harbor State Park (Plymouth; 62 miles)
• F. Gilbert Hills State Forest (Foxboro; 28 miles)
• Great Brook Farm (Carlisle; 21 miles)
• Halibut Point (Rockport; 50 miles)
• Harold Parker (North Andover; 33 miles)
• Hockomock Swamp WMA (Bridgewater; 31 miles)
• Hopkinton (22 miles)
• Lynn Shores & Nahant Beach (Lynn; 21 miles)
• Maudslay (Newburyport; 47 miles)
• Middlesex Fells (Medford; 12 miles)
• Mount Watatic (Ashburnham; 56 miles)
• Myles Standish State Forest (South Carver; 55 miles)
• Mystic River Reservation (Medford; miles)
• Nashua River Rail Trail (Ayer to Dunstable; 34 miles)
• Nasketucket Bay State Reservation (Mattapoisett; 65 miles)
• Neponset River Reservation (Milton; 10 miles)
• Ponkapoag Camp (Randolph; cabins and camping near Boston; 15 miles)
• Purgatory Chasm (Sutton; 42 miles)
• Rumney Marsh (Saugus; 22 miles)
• Squantum Point Park (Quincy; 15 miles)
• Quincy Shores Reservation (Quincy; 15 miles)
• Sandy Point State Reservation ( Plum Island, Newburyport; 55 miles)
• Stony Brook (West Roxbury; 7 miles)
• Upton State Forest (Upton; 32 miles)
• Wachusett Mountain (Princeton; the biggest peak near Boston; 50 miles)
• Wachusett Reservoir (Boylston; 40 miles)
• Walden Pond (Concord; 15 miles)
• Whitehall (Hopkinton; 29 miles)
• Willowdale (Ipswich; 37 miles)
• Wilson Mountain (Dedham; 7 miles)
• Wompatuck (Hingham, 28 miles)

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City and Town Parks and Conservation Areas

• Ashland Town Forest and Cowassock Woods (18 miles)
• Bedford Conservation Areas (15 miles)

	Rockridge Pond, Wellesley

• Carlisle Trails (20 miles)
• Franklin Park and Zoo (Roxbury; 9 miles)
• Fresh Pond (Cambridge; 6 miles)
• Great Meadows (Lexington; 9 miles)
• Jamaica Pond (Jamaica Plain; 6 miles)
• Lexington Conservation Lands (8-12 miles)
• Lynn Woods (20 miles)
• Maynard Trails (22 miles)
• Mount Misery (Lincoln; 10 miles)
• Mt. Pisgah (Northborough; 38 miles)
• Needham Town Forest map (4 miles)
• Prospect Hill Park (Waltham; 6 miles)
• Stow Conservation Lands (21 miles)
• Sudbury Conservation Lands (14 miles)
• Wayland Conservation Areas (12 miles)
• Wellesley Sanctuaries (4 to 8 miles)
• Wellesley Trails(4 to 8 miles)
• Weston Forest & Trail Association (5 to 9 miles)
• Winnekenni Park (Haverhill; 47 miles)

Mass Audubon Sanctuaries

• Allen's Pond (Westport; 70 miles)
• Attleboro Springs (Attleboro; 36 miles)
• Blue Hills Trailside Museum (Milton; 15 miles)
• Boston Nature Center (Mattapan; 9 miles)
• Broad Meadow Brook (Worcester; 34 miles)

	Moose Hill, Sharon

• Broadmoor (Natick; 10 miles)
• Burncoat Pond (Spencer; 48 miles)
• Cook's Canyon (Barre; 56 miles)
• Daniel Webster (Marshfield; 39 miles)
• Drumlin Farm (Lincoln; 10 miles)
• Eagle Lake Wildlife Sanctuary (Holden; 50 miles)
• Eastern Point (Gloucester; 46 miles)
• Flat Rock (Fitchburg; 46 miles)
• Great Neck (Wareham; 60 miles)
• Habitat (Belmont; 6 miles)
• Ipswich River (Topsfield; 34 miles)
• Joppa Flats (Newburyport; 45 miles)
• Lake Wampanoag (Gardner; 55 miles)
• Lincoln Woods (Leominster; 40 miles)
• Marblehead Neck (Marblehead; 27 miles)
• Moose Hill (Sharon; 20 miles)
• Museum of American Bird Art (Canton; 15 miles)
• Nashoba Brook (Westford; 34 miles)
• North Hill Marsh (Duxbury; 42 miles)
• North River (Marshfield; 39 miles)
• Oak Knoll (Attleboro; 37 miles)
• Pierpont Meadow (Dudley; 47 miles)
• Rocky Hill (Groton; 33 miles)
• Rough Meadows (Rowley; 45 miles)
• Stony Brook (Norfolk; 27 miles)
• Wachusett Meadow (Princeton; 58 miles)
• Waseeka (Hopkinton; 21 miles)

• Mass Audubon sanctuary map

Trustees of Reservations

Agassiz Rock (Manchester-by-the-Sea; 42 miles)

Appleton Farms (Ipswich; 39 miles)

Bradley Estate (Canton; 14 miles)

Cedariver (Millis; 18 miles)

Chase Woodlands and Peters (Dover; 11 miles)

Coolidge (Manchester-by-the-Sea; 39 miles)

Crane Estate and Crane Beach (Ipswich; 41 miles)

	Signal Hill, Canton

Hutchinson's Field and Pierce (Milton; 13 miles)

Malcolm Preserve (Carlisle; 20 miles)

Medfield Rhododendrons (Medfield; 16 miles)

Moose Hill Farm (Sharon; 20 miles)

Noanet Woodlands (Dover; 8 miles)

Noon Hill (Medfield; 19 miles)

Norris (Norwell; 34 miles)

Old Town Hill (Newbury; 50 miles)

Pegan Hill (Natick; 10 miles)

Ravenswood Park (Gloucester; 44 miles)

Rocky Narrows (Sherborn; 16 miles)

Rocky Woods and Fork Factory Brook (Medfield; 13 miles)

Shattuck (Medfield; 17 miles)

Signal Hill (Canton; 14 miles)

Slocum's River (Dartmouth; 65 miles)

Ward (Andover; 33 miles)

Weir Hill (North Andover; 35 miles)

Weir River Farm (Hingham; 24 miles)

Whitney and Thayer Woods (Cohasset; 26 miles)

World's End (Hingham; 25 miles)

Other Park and Conservation Land

• Acton Conservation Lands (21 miles)
• Arnold Arboretum (Jamaica Plain; 7 miles)

	Grassy Pond, Acton

• Bald Hill (Boxford; 33 miles)
• Boston Harbor Islands (10 miles to the ferries)
• Caratunk Wildlife Refuge (Seekonk; 42 miles)
• Cedar Hill and Sawink Farm (Northborough; 25 miles)
• Deer Island (Winthrop; 17 miles)
• Dogtown Commons (Gloucester; 48 miles)
• Estabrook Woods (Concord and Carlisle; 16 miles)
• Garden in the Woods (Framingham; 15 miles)
• Goldsmith Woodlands (Andover; 32 miles)
• Hale Reservation (Westwood; 10 miles)
• Indian Ridge (Andover; 32 miles)
• Littleton Conservation Trust Lands (27 miles)
• Memorial Forest (Sudbury; 18 miles)
• Mount Auburn Cemetery (Cambridge; 5 miles)
• Mount Monadnock (Jaffrey, NH; 73 miles)
• Nashua River (Worcester to Nashua)
• Skug River Reservation (Andover; 32 miles)
• Stonehurst (Waltham; 5 miles)
• Sudbury Valley Trustees Properties (Sudbury and other towns; 10-22 miles)
• Tower Hill Botanic Garden (Boylston; 38 miles)
• Westborough Charm Bracelet Trail System (26 miles)
• Westford Conservation Lands (35 miles)

Long Trails and Bike Routes

• Appalachian Trail (Maine to Georgia)
• Assabet River Rail Trail (Marlborough to Action)
• Bay Circuit Trail (Newbury to Sudbury to Duxbury)

	Minuteman Bikeway

• Blackstone River Bikeway (Worcester to Providence; under construction)
• Bruce Freeman Rail Trail (Lowell to Framingham; under construction)
• Charles River Bike Paths (Boston to Watertown)
• Charles River Link Trail (Newton to Medfield)
• Community Paths (Cambridge and Somerville)
• Farmington Canal Heritage Trail (Northhampton, MA, to New Haven, CT; under construction)
• Mass Central Rail Trail (proposed, from Northampton to Boston)
• Minuteman Bikeway (Cambridge to Bedford)
• New England National Scenic Trail (New Hampshire to Long Island Sound, including the Metacomet-Monadnock Trail, Metacomet Trail, and Mattabesset Trail )
• Southwest Corridor Bike Path (Boston)
• Sunapee-Ragged-Kearsarge Greenway (NH)
• Wapack Trail to Mid-State Trail to North-South Trail (NH to RI)
• Western Greenway (Belmont, Waltham, Lexington)

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