Hiking trails near Worcester, Massachusetts

277 official trails lie within 25 miles of Worcester — 723 miles in total, 241 rated easy and 13 hard or expert. Every distance and elevation figure below is computed from the agency centerline and a 10 m elevation model, not crowd-sourced.

The biggest climb nearby gains 603 ft; the median trail gains 98 ft.

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24 trails worth the drive

Trail	Miles	Climb	Difficulty	From town
Midstate Trail	14.2	407 ft	Expert	17 mi
Brooks Woodland Preserve	7.4	293 ft	Hard	23 mi
Mass Central/MCRT	9.8	533 ft	Hard	9 mi
Bay Circuit Trail	13.4	272 ft	Hard	16 mi
Swift River Reservation	5.1	388 ft	Hard	22 mi
Mass Central/Ware to Hardwick	14.1	248 ft	Hard	17 mi
Assabet River Rail Trail	12.2	293 ft	Hard	22 mi
Mass Central	9.7	203 ft	Hard	8 mi
Southern New England Trunkline	26.3	439 ft	Hard	16 mi
Ware River Valley Rail Trail	13.0	303 ft	Hard	15 mi
Blackstone River Bikeway	22.8	305 ft	Moderate	1 mi
Flat Rock Wildlife Sanctuary	4.7	315 ft	Moderate	23 mi
Upper Charles Trail	22.8	360 ft	Moderate	17 mi
North Central Pathway	8.7	192 ft	Moderate	23 mi
Oak Hill	3.1	192 ft	Moderate	23 mi
Mt. Pisgah	3.1	257 ft	Moderate	10 mi
Hunnewell Town Forest	3.3	180 ft	Moderate	24 mi
Bruce Freeman	30.7	89 ft	Moderate	21 mi
Coggshall Park	3.2	133 ft	Moderate	20 mi
Crocker Conservation Area	2.2	315 ft	Moderate	22 mi
Corridor 71	3.9	319 ft	Moderate	10 mi
Mass Central Rail Trail	3.0	265 ft	Moderate	13 mi
Ball Hill Trail	3.0	344 ft	Moderate	17 mi
Flagghilltrails	3.2	201 ft	Moderate	20 mi

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