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.

National Parks, Seashores, Refuges, and Reservations

• Assabet River National Wildlife Refuge (Hudson; 15 miles)
• Battle Road Trail (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; CLOSED FOR RENOVATION UNTIL 2010)
• Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge (Concord and Sudbury; 16 and 13 miles)
• Oxbow National Wildlife Refuge (Harvard; 34 miles)
• Parker River National Wildlife Refuge (Newburyport; 50 miles)

Massachusetts State Parks and Reservations

• Ames Nowell (Abington; 29 miles)
• Ashland (Ashland; 18 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)
• Bradley Palmer (Topsfield; 36 miles)
• Breakheart Reservation (Saugus; 19 miles)
• Callahan (Framingham; 16 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)
• 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)
• Nashua River Rail Trail (Ayer to Dunstable; 34 miles)
• Neponset River Reservation (Milton; 10 miles)
• Ponkapoag Camp (Randolph; cabins and camping near Boston; 15 miles)
• Squantum Point Park (Quincy; 15 miles)
• Quincy Shores Reservation (Quincy; 15 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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• Coast Guide Online

City and Town Parks and Conservation Areas

• Bedford Conservation Areas (15 miles)
• Carlisle Trails (20 miles)
• Franklin Park and Zoo (Roxbury; 9 miles)
• Fresh Pond (Cambridge; 6 miles)
• Jamaica Pond (Jamaica Plain; 6 miles)
• Lynn Woods (20 miles)
• Maynard Trails (22 miles)
• Mount Misery (Lincoln; 10 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)

Mass Audubon Sanctuaries

• Blue Hills Trailside Museum (Milton; 15 miles)
• Boston Nature Center (Mattapan; 9 miles)
• Broad Meadow Brook (Worcester; 34 miles)
• Broadmoor (Natick; 10 miles)
• Daniel Webster (Marshfield; 39 miles)
• Drumlin Farm (Lincoln; 10 miles)
• Eastern Point (Gloucester; 46 miles)
• Flat Rock (Fitchburg; 46 miles)
• Habitat (Belmont; 6 miles)
• Ipswich River (Topsfield; 34 miles)
• Joppa Flats (Newburyport; 45 miles)
• Lake Wampanoag (Gardner; 55 miles)
• Marblehead Neck (Marblehead; 27 miles)
• Moose Hill (Sharon; 20 miles)
• Nashoba Brook (Westford; 34 miles)
• North Hill Marsh (Duxbury; 42 miles)
• North River (Marshfield; 39 miles)
• Stony Brook (Norfolk; 27 miles)
• Visual Arts Center and Sanctuary (Canton; 15 miles)
• Wachusett Meadow (Princeton; 58 miles)
• Waseeka (Hopkinton; 21 miles)

• Mass Audubon sanctuary map

Trustees of Reservations

Other Park and Conservation Land

• Acton Conservation Lands (21 miles)
• Arnold Arboretum (Jamaica Plain; 7 miles)
• Bald Hill (Boxford; 33 miles)
• Boston Harbor Islands (10 miles to the ferries)
• Caratunk Wildlife Refuge (Seekonk; 42 miles)
• Estabrook Woods (Concord and Carlisle; 16 miles)
• Garden in the Woods (Framingham; 15 miles)
• Hale Reservation (Westwood; 10 miles)
• Littleton Conservation Trust Lands (27 miles)
• Mount Auburn Cemetery (Cambridge; 5 miles)
• Mount Monadnock (Jaffrey, NH; 73 miles)
• Nashua River (Worcester to Nashua)
• Stonehurst (Waltham; 5 miles)
• Sudbury Valley Trustees Properties (Sudbury and other towns; 10-22 miles)
• Westborough Charm Bracelet Trail System (26 miles)
• Westford Conservation Lands (35 miles)

Long Trails and Bike Routes

• Bay Circuit Trail (Newbury to Sudbury to Duxbury)
• Minuteman Bikeway (Cambridge to Bedford)
• Wapack Trail to Mid-State Trail to North-South Trail (NH to RI)
• Sunapee-Ragged-Kearsarge Greenway to Metacomet-Monadnock Trail to Metacomet Trail to Mattabesset Trail (NH to CT)
• Mass Central Rail Trail (proposed, from Northampton to Boston)
• Community Paths (Cambridge and Somerville)
• Charles River Bike Paths (Boston to Watertown)
• Southwest Corridor Bike Path (Boston)

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