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.

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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 · South Dartmouth
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
A small 5.34-acre wooded reserve with two brooks, donated to DNRT in 1991.
Parks & Playgrounds · North Dartmouth
Parks & Playgrounds · North Dartmouth
A 75-acre deciduous red maple swamp reserve north of I-195, acquired by DNRT in 1988.
Parks & Playgrounds · Hixville
A roughly 38-acre DNRT reserve with white pine woods and a wet meadow along the Shingle Island River.
Parks & Playgrounds · South Dartmouth
A half-acre riverside strip donated to DNRT in 1996, beside the Little River bridge.
Parks & Playgrounds · South Dartmouth
Parks & Playgrounds · South Dartmouth
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
Parks & Playgrounds · South Dartmouth
A 473-acre state wildlife area of red maple swamp and upland woods with an active cornfield along Division Road.
Parks & Playgrounds · South Dartmouth
A roughly 473-acre state wildlife management area of red maple swamp and mixed upland forest, left deliberately wild with no maintained trails.
Parks & Playgrounds · North Dartmouth
Beaches & Shoreline · South Dartmouth
State park on the Slocums River estuary with a calm, shallow beach popular with families. Managed by Mass DCR.
Parks & Playgrounds · Bliss Corner
A 27-acre reserve of oak and laurel forest and cattail marsh along Buttonwood Brook, donated in 1982.
Parks & Playgrounds · North Dartmouth
Parks & Playgrounds · South Dartmouth
Hawes is saltmarsh and wetland, paired on DNRT's page with the wooded Wadsworth parcel (about 18.7 acres total).
Parks & Playgrounds · North Dartmouth
Community garden plots and a greenhouse on DNRT's Helfand Farm, home to the trust's office.
Parks & Playgrounds · Hixville
A 25-acre upland pine-and-oak reserve with a small trail network among stone walls and frontage on Cornell Pond.
Parks & Playgrounds · North Dartmouth
Parks & Playgrounds · South Dartmouth
Open salt marsh and a marsh pond with a short walking path built in 1982, a year-round wildlife refuge.
Parks & Playgrounds · North Dartmouth
Parks & Playgrounds · South Dartmouth
A coastal-ecology education and research center whose grounds and trails along the Slocums River estuary are free to visit.
Closed now
Parks & Playgrounds · North Dartmouth
A roughly seven-acre red maple swamp and woodland with Lake Noquochoke frontage, open for passive recreation; no motorized vehicles.
Parks & Playgrounds · South Dartmouth
Parks & Playgrounds · South Dartmouth
A 2.67-acre reserve around a rhododendron-ringed kettle-hole pond, donated to DNRT in 2003.
Parks & Playgrounds · South Dartmouth
Parks & Playgrounds · North Dartmouth
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
Parks & Playgrounds · South Dartmouth
Parks & Playgrounds · South Dartmouth
Parks & Playgrounds · South Dartmouth
Parks & Playgrounds · South Dartmouth
About 53 acres of hayfield on the Slocum's River, with haying delayed for nesting grassland birds such as bobolinks.
Parks & Playgrounds · South Dartmouth
Parks & Playgrounds · South Dartmouth
Parks & Playgrounds · North Dartmouth
A densely wooded floodplain reserve along the Paskamansett River, split by railroad tracks.
Parks & Playgrounds · South Dartmouth
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
A 37-acre salt marsh and mudflat parcel along the Little River donated in 1977.
Parks & Playgrounds · South Dartmouth
A roughly 30-acre DNRT reserve centered on a salt marsh that drains under Beach Avenue to the Little River.
Parks & Playgrounds · North Dartmouth
Parks & Playgrounds · South Dartmouth
Parks & Playgrounds · South Dartmouth
A small woodland reserve with a pond (Wadsworth, about 5 acres) paired with the adjoining Hawes salt-marsh parcel.
Parks & Playgrounds · North Dartmouth
Parks & Playgrounds · South Dartmouth
A 5-acre reserve with a short trail through salt marsh past George's Pond to the dunes of Demarest Lloyd State Park.