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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 (Plum Island, Newburyport; 50 miles)
Massachusetts State Parks and Reservations
City and Town Parks and Conservation Areas
Mass Audubon Sanctuaries
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)
- 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)
- 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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