South Shore TrailsMyrtle Street Fields/Ceurvels Park
Ceurvels Park, also known as the Myrtle Street Fields in Hanover, features baseball and soccer/lacrosse fields plus a basketball court. Right behind the park a bridge crosses Torrey Brook, connecting…
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Nava-Stasiluk Conservation Area
The Nava-Stasiluk Conservation Area in Hanover offers just under a mile of trails through the woods, across Torrey Brook, and along an old railroad bed. It is part of a…
Negus Park
Negus Park in Weymouth features a baseball complex and a small playground, along with access to the 1.1-mile Great Pond Trail, which extends to the Richard E. Gifford Playground. It…
Norris Reservation
Norris Reservation is one of the most popular trails on the South Shore. The parking lot is consistently full nearly every weekend day - and frequently on week days as…
North River Wildlife Sanctuary
Mass Audubon's 225-acre North River Wildlife Sanctuary offers 2.5 miles of well-marked trails through forest, meadow, and red maple swamp, including a quarter-mile universally accessible sensory trail through a fern…
Old Rockland Fireworks Loop Trail
The Old Rockland Fireworks Loop Trail is an unmarked, roughly 1-mile loop -- mostly gravel, occasionally paved -- that crosses flat terrain through woods of maple, birch, holly, pine, and…
Old Swamp River Trail
The Old Swamp River Trail is a small, tucked-away property in a remote section of Hingham, near the industrial parks close to the Rockland and Weymouth borders. It is a…
Philip Clemons Conservation Area
The 26-acre Philip Clemons Conservation Area in Hanson offers a half-mile loop trail through woods and wetlands, with two stream crossings and distant views of Oldham Pond. The land was…
Phillips Farm Preserve
Philips Farm Preserve is a Wildlands Trust property located in Marshfield. The preserve is located in an area of Marshfield rich with conservation sites including some connected to Philips. The…
Phillips Sanctuary and Firehouse Loop
Phillips Sanctuary and Firehouse Loop offers a beautiful 55-acre glimpse of Hanover's earlier days, back when there were fewer houses and a lot more trees. A 1.6-mile network of loop…
Pine Island Trails
Pine Island Swamp is a small trail located off Old Farm Road in Hanover. Visitors can also access the Plain Street trails while they visit.
Plain Street Trails
Plain Street Trails is a trail located off Plain Street in Hanover. It is located is very close proximity to the Pine Swamp trail.
Plymouth Town Forest
The 317-acre Plymouth Town Forest features four ponds and 2.5 miles of woodland trails, with parking off Long Pond Road. It is one of the larger, more varied trail networks…
Poor Meadow Brook Conservation Area
Poor Meadow Brook Conservation Area in Hanson features a 1-mile trail through woods and wetlands, split into two intersecting loops along Poor Meadow Brook and the Shumatuscacant River. There is…
Pratt Farm
Marshfield's Pratt Farm offers 34 acres of conservation land along both the South River and Zenas Brook. A half-mile of trails winds through the woods and wetlands here, crossing a…
Rockland Town Forest
The 43-acre Rockland Town Forest -- also known as the George Anderson Town Forest -- features a well-maintained woodland trail network with numerous views of French's Stream, a headwater tributary…
Round Pond Conservation Area + Cherry Lane Bogs
Round Pond is much more than just a pond -- the property's namesake is a 10,000-year-old kettle hole at its center, ringed by pine and oak woods with a number…
Salt Marsh Trail at National Sailors Home Cemetery
The Salt Marsh Trail is a 0.6-mile walking loop through light forest and a grassy clearing, leading past a small US Navy cemetery -- the last remnant of the National…
Sampson Park & Faunce Memorial Forest
Sampson Park is a nearly 200 acre preserve in Kingston along the Jones River. There are three certified vernal pools in the park. During hunting season, walkers and dogs should…
Savery Avenue Conservation Area
Savery Avenue in Carver holds a genuine historical distinction -- it's believed to be the first divided highway built in the United States, presented to the public in 1861 by…
Scituate Town Forest
The Scituate Town Forest is an 18-acre pine forest on Route 3A in North Scituate, offering more than a mile of trails via a loop off two metal gate trailheads,…
Shifting Lots Preserve
Shifting Lots Preserve in Plymouth sits along Cape Cod Bay, near Ellisville Harbor State Park, with terrain that is generally flat but often loose and sandy -- come prepared with…
Simon Hill and Bowker Street Conservation Area
As its name suggests, the terrain at Simon Hill and Bowker Street Conservation Area is hilly, and rocky in places, with an interesting footbridge built from a single large split…
South Elementary School Nature Trail
This short, 0.25-mile loop trail behind South Elementary School winds downhill along a ridge, with a stream crossing and wetland views along the way. An additional trail extends westward from…
South River Bog
South River Bog is a 100-acre Duxbury Conservation property, formerly known as Feinberg Bog, that was once a working cranberry operation. It has been dormant since the early 1900s and…
Striar Conservancy
Striar Conservancy is a 168-acre Wildlands Trust preserve in Halifax on the northern bank of the Winnetuxet River, with a short (0.8-mile) hiking trail through numerous certified vernal pools and…
Summer Street Conservation Lands
Summer Street Conservation Lands is a 14-acre forest straddling Rockland and Hanover, with about a mile of trail connecting directly to the Old Rockland Fireworks Loop Trail and the French's…
Teak Sherman Memorial Park & Community Garden
Scituate's Teak Sherman Memorial Park and Community Garden is a small park with old stone walls and a 0.12-mile trail through the woods, connecting the parking area on Route 3A…
The Nook Preserve
The Nook Preserve is a 17.5-acre Wildlands Trust property close to the mouth of the tidal Jones River, in an area once favored by Native Americans for summer encampments and…
Tindale Bog
Tindale Bog is an 18-acre property with a small pond and an adjacent woodland trail network, bordering a Well Protection Zone. It links directly into the roughly 3-mile trail system…
Town Brook Trail + Patuxet Preserve
The Town Brook Trail is a 1.5-mile walking path through the heart of historic Plymouth, running from Billington Street down to the waterfront, linking together Town Brook Patuxet Preserve, Billington…
Tubbs Meadow Conservation Area
Tubbs Meadow is a 106 acre conservation property located in Pembroke. The 2.7 mile trail network is surrounded by historic cranberry bogs. Similar to other restored cranberry bogs like Crowell…
Two Brooks Preserve
Two Brooks Preserve is a 135-acre property in Plympton with a 1-mile loop trail starting at the entrance kiosk -- the Sawmill Trail heads right and the Whetstone Trail heads…
Union Point Northern Gateway Trail Network
The Union Point Northern Gateway Trail network offers two miles of trails through woodlands and meadows on the site of the former South Weymouth Naval Air Station, with a mix…
Wadsworth Road Playground
Wadsworth Road Playground is a small park in a neighborhood setting in Duxbury, with an ADA-accessible playground, a baseball field, tennis courts, and a short nature trail. The playground was…
Webster’s Wilderness
The 244-acre peninsula shares many of the features found on the harbor islands. Overlooking Hingham Bay, it is formed by two drumlins and has rocky beaches, ledges, cliffs, patches of…
