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Parks & Playgrounds in Dartmouth, MA

44 listings across 4 villages · hours on 1

Town parks, ball fields, playgrounds and the greens that anchor each village. For woods and trails, see Trails & Conservation; for the beaches, see Beaches & Shoreline. Dogs, hours and parking rules vary by park and are on each listing when we have them.

Parks & Playgrounds in Bliss CornerAbout Bliss Corner

  • Parks & Playgrounds · Bliss Corner

    Dodge Reserve

    A 27-acre reserve of oak and laurel forest and cattail marsh along Buttonwood Brook, donated in 1982.

Parks & Playgrounds in HixvilleAbout Hixville

  • Parks & Playgrounds · Hixville

    Barzabiel Washburn Reserve

    A roughly 38-acre DNRT reserve with white pine woods and a wet meadow along the Shingle Island River.

  • Parks & Playgrounds · Hixville

    Howland Reserve

    A 25-acre upland pine-and-oak reserve with a small trail network among stone walls and frontage on Cornell Pond.

Parks & Playgrounds in North DartmouthAbout North Dartmouth

  • Parks & Playgrounds · North Dartmouth

    Acushnet Cedar Swamp

    A large state-held cedar swamp and pond straddling New Bedford and Dartmouth, reached on foot by informal trails from roadside pull-offs.

  • Parks & Playgrounds · North Dartmouth

    Augustine / Souza Reserve

    A 75-acre deciduous red maple swamp reserve north of I-195, acquired by DNRT in 1988.

  • Parks & Playgrounds · North Dartmouth

    Helfand Farm Community Gardens

    Community garden plots and a greenhouse on DNRT's Helfand Farm, home to the trust's office.

  • Parks & Playgrounds · North Dartmouth

    Mosney Reserve

    A roughly seven-acre red maple swamp and woodland with Lake Noquochoke frontage, open for passive recreation; no motorized vehicles.

  • Parks & Playgrounds · North Dartmouth

    Noquochoke Wildlife Management Area

    A 205-acre MassWildlife property of pine, cedar and oak woods, mowed meadows, an Atlantic white cedar swamp and a fen, with several unmaintained short trails.

  • Parks & Playgrounds · North Dartmouth

    Smith Reserve

    A densely wooded floodplain reserve along the Paskamansett River, split by railroad tracks.

Parks & Playgrounds in South DartmouthAbout South Dartmouth

  • Parks & Playgrounds · South Dartmouth

    Allens Pond Wildlife Sanctuary

    A roughly 620-acre Mass Audubon sanctuary of beach, fields, woods, pond and salt marsh straddling South Dartmouth and Westport, with about 7 miles of foot trails.

  • Parks & Playgrounds · South Dartmouth

    Ashton Reserve

    A small 5.34-acre wooded reserve with two brooks, donated to DNRT in 1991.

  • Parks & Playgrounds · South Dartmouth

    Bergh Reserve

    A half-acre riverside strip donated to DNRT in 1996, beside the Little River bridge.

  • Parks & Playgrounds · South Dartmouth

    Cornell Farm

    A 130-acre Trustees property with pastures, oak-holly woods and a boardwalk over a salt marsh near the head of the Little River, with a roughly 1.5-mile round trip walk.

  • Parks & Playgrounds · South Dartmouth

    Dartmoor Farms

    A roughly 473-acre state wildlife management area of red maple swamp and mixed upland forest, left deliberately wild with no maintained trails.

  • Beaches & Shoreline · South Dartmouth

    Demarest Lloyd State Park

    State park on the Slocums River estuary with a calm, shallow beach popular with families. Managed by Mass DCR.

  • Parks & Playgrounds · South Dartmouth

    Hawes Reserve

    Hawes is saltmarsh and wetland, paired on DNRT's page with the wooded Wadsworth parcel (about 18.7 acres total).

  • Parks & Playgrounds · South Dartmouth

    Knowles- Padnaram Reserve

    Open salt marsh and a marsh pond with a short walking path built in 1982, a year-round wildlife refuge.

  • Parks & Playgrounds · South Dartmouth

    Lloyd Center

    A coastal-ecology education and research center whose grounds and trails along the Slocums River estuary are free to visit.

    Closed now

  • Parks & Playgrounds · South Dartmouth

    New Bedford Garden Club Reserve

    A 2.67-acre reserve around a rhododendron-ringed kettle-hole pond, donated to DNRT in 2003.

  • Parks & Playgrounds · South Dartmouth

    Perry Many Rose Agriculture

    About 53 acres of hayfield on the Slocum's River, with haying delayed for nesting grassland birds such as bobolinks.

  • Parks & Playgrounds · South Dartmouth

    Stetson-Piney Island Reserve

    A 4.3-acre land-trust marsh island with a small rocky pine-and-oak upland at the mouth of the Slocums River.

  • Parks & Playgrounds · South Dartmouth

    Sweetser Reserve

    A 37-acre salt marsh and mudflat parcel along the Little River donated in 1977.

  • Parks & Playgrounds · South Dartmouth

    Teal Rock-Windor Reserve

    A roughly 30-acre DNRT reserve centered on a salt marsh that drains under Beach Avenue to the Little River.

  • Parks & Playgrounds · South Dartmouth

    Wadsworth Reserve

    A small woodland reserve with a pond (Wadsworth, about 5 acres) paired with the adjoining Hawes salt-marsh parcel.

  • Parks & Playgrounds · South Dartmouth

    Wylde Reserve

    A 5-acre reserve with a short trail through salt marsh past George's Pond to the dunes of Demarest Lloyd State Park.

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