Parks and the outdoors in Dudley

8 parks, gardens, beaches and walks in and around Dudley.

Ranked with the travel guide's picks and well-known places first.

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Pierpont Meadow Wildlife Sanctuary
Wildlife sanctuary operated by Mass Audubon. Former farmland that is partially reclaimed by forest.
dawn to duskfree
Do
Quinebaug Park & River Trail
A park with trails, picnic tables, and landings for canoes and kayaks
Do
Slater Woods
Hiland Park
Roughly 75 acres of second growth oak, maple, and pine, on the border with Oxford. Slater Woods provides a connecting link in a 1.5-mile-long greenway between DCLT holdings along Peter Pond in Dudley with Mass Audubon holdings along Dudley-Oxford Road in Dudley. Combined, there are almost 250 acres of protected land along the greenway.
Do
Tuft's Branch Valley Wildlife Sanctuary
81.3 acres of early succession forest, mature upland forest, wetlands and meadows. Has walking trails. Dogs are allowed but must be leashed.
Do
Wieloch Woods
77 acres, including 2 vernal pools. The northern boundary shares a boundary with the Grand Trunk Trail
Do Not mapped
Dudley Land Conservation Trust
350 acres of conservation land in Dudley and Oxford with many trails through farm and forest land.
Do
Ardlock Acres
1.5-mile-long nature walk.
Do
Quinebaug River Valley Rail Trail & Bikeway
Railway walking and biking trail

Listings from the Wikivoyage guide to Dudley (CC BY-SA 4.0).