Ashland State Park is a 472-acre (191 ha) Massachusetts state park located in the town of Ashland. The park includes the 157-acre (64 ha) Ashland Reservoir which was completed in 1895. When the reservoir was taken out of service in 1947 the property was converted to a state park managed read more
The Sudbury Reservoir (2.02 square miles) is a former Boston metropolitan water reservoir located in Framingham, Marlborough, Southborough, and Westborough, Massachusetts, USA. It is now a state park administered by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation.The reservoir was first begun in 1878, as part of a system of reservoirs read more
Callahan State Park is a Massachusetts day-use state park located in the town of Framingham and the city of Marlborough. It was named in honor of Raymond J. Callahan by an act of the Massachusetts legislature in 1971. The park is managed by the Department of Conservation and Recreation.
Cochituate State Park is a Massachusetts day-use state park located on Lake Cochituate in the town of Natick. The park is managed by the Department of Conservation and Recreation.
Egg Rock is an outcrop of Silurian Straw Hollow Diorite at the confluence of the Assabet and Sudbury rivers, where they form the Concord River in Concord, Massachusetts. The outcrop is located on a roughly oval intermittent island of about 100 by 50 meters. Egg Rock is usually accessible using read more
Lowell-Dracut-Tyngsboro State Forest is a 1,109-acre (449 ha) recreational preserve overlapping the three Massachusetts towns of Lowell, Dracut and Tyngsborough. The forest, which includes some 180 acres (73 ha) of ponds, swamps and wetlands, is maintained by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation.
F. Gilbert Hills State Forest (previously known as Foxboro State Forest) is a 1,027-acre (416 ha), pine and oak Massachusetts state forest located in the towns of Foxborough and Wrentham. The forest, which is managed by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR), was named for a former State read more
Lowell Heritage State Park is located in Lowell, Massachusetts. The state park was established in the mid-1970s as a precursor to Lowell National Historical Park with the purpose of preserving the city’s seminal role in the American Industrial Revolution. Aside from the functions the national park also serves, the state read more
Rocky Woods is a 491-acre (199 ha) open space preserve located in Medfield, Massachusetts. The preserve, managed by the land conservation non-profit organization The Trustees of Reservations, is notable for its rugged terrain. Rocky Woods offers 6.5 miles (10.5 km) of trails and former woods roads available for hiking, horseback read more
Cutler Park is a 700-acre (280 ha) state park in Needham, Massachusetts that lies between Route 128/I-95 and the Charles River. It contains the largest remaining freshwater marsh on the middle Charles River, and parts of its major trail run directly through the marsh via boardwalks. At the north end, read more