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View Of North Dighton Village in 1881Photo: Asn87 · CC BY-SA 3.0
B+Outdoors
Outdoors in Dighton

Dighton has 442 acres of parks, 54 for every 1,000 residents

7% of Dighton’s land is conserved, about 947 acres. 77% of residents live within a half mile of a park. 6.5 miles of mapped trail cross Dighton, 0.3 per square mile of land.

Ahead of 74% of U.S. towns · #274 of 283 in Massachusetts. What drives it

Conserved land
7%
947 acres · of 22.0 sq mi of land
Trails
6.5 mi
0.3 per sq mi of land
Park land
442 ac
54 acres per 1,000 residents
Near a park
77%
of residents within ½ mile
Highest peak
187 ft
Hunters Hill
Lakes & rivers
5
1 boat launch
Outdoors grade

How much outdoors does Dighton have?

On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Dighton is ahead of 74% of U.S. towns, #274 of 283 in Massachusetts. All four inputs are above most U.S. towns; park acres per resident rank highest, trail miles lowest.

B+
OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of Dighton’s overall grade.
Conserved land7% of the land · typical MA town 21% · U.S. 4%B+Trails0.3 miles of mapped trail per square mile of land (7 mi) · MA 1.9 · U.S. 0.4B−Park land54 acres of park per 1,000 residents (442 acres) · MA 91 · U.S. 13A−Parks close to home77% of residents within a half mile of a park · MA 93% · U.S. 72%B
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Ahead of 74%
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Massachusetts towns of 2,500+ (283)Ahead of 3%

Massachusetts towns conserve more land than most (a typical one, 21%; the U.S., 4%), so Dighton’s 7% is ahead of 2% of Massachusetts towns, while its trails per square mile lead 2% of them.

How sure. Graded on any three of the four inputs instead, the letter would range from B to A−. Trails and many small parks come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by volunteers, so coverage varies from town to town; the half mile is a straight line from each census block, so a river or highway in the way isn’t counted against it.

PAD-US, OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors), Census 2025 Gazetteer and 2020 blocks; details in Sources below. How TownRatings grades the outdoors →

The map

Conserved land, trails & bike routes

Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it.

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Easements protect land from building but are usually private.© OpenStreetMap contributors · USGS PAD-US
Places to walk

Pick a walk

Directions go to the nearest trailhead or public parking.

Town Forest

Nature preserve
80 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet

Broad Cove Marsh

Nature preserve
22 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet

Conservation Land

Nature preserve
9 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet

Lane Field

Park
2 acres
Dog rules not recorded
Directionsto the parking lot
All 5 parks & preserves
Town Forest80 acres
Broad Cove Marsh22 acres
Conservation Land9 acres
Lane Field2 acres
Directions
Tricentennial Park1 acres · Town of Dighton
Directions
Who protects it

947 conserved acres

7% of Dighton’s land. Who manages Dighton’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.

Town or city102 ac
State fish & wildlife50 ac
Other state land39 ac
USDA easements (NRCS)21 ac
Not recorded830 ac
Research or Educational Area · 263 acWatershed Protection Area · 242 acLocal Other or Unknown · 213 acLocal Resource Management Area · 71 acState Park · 53 ac
Good to know

Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors. 51 acres are conservation easements, usually private land. Public access isn’t recorded for 6 of 46 parcels. The walks above are places people visit.

The biggest protected parcels
Parcel (PAD-US)Managed byAcresPublic access
Bristol County Agricultural High School
Research or Educational Area
Not recorded192Open
Town of Somerset
Watershed Protection Area
Not recorded182Unknown
Town of Dighton
Local Other or Unknown
Not recorded116Restricted
Town Forest
Local Resource Management Area
Not recorded71Open
Sweets Knoll State Park
State Park
Not recorded53Open
Knotty Pine Estates Conservation Area
Local Other or Unknown
Not recorded52Open
Dighton-Rehoboth Regional High School Fields
Research or Educational Area
Not recorded45Open
M76 Elem. & Middle School
Research or Educational Area
Not recorded26Open
Lopes Recreational Complex
Local Other or Unknown
Not recorded23Open
Sunken Brook Conservation Area
Local Conservation Area
Town or city19Open

5 smaller protected places aren’t shown.

Things to do

4 places to go in Dighton

Beaches, playgrounds, peaks, falls and more. Pick a kind.

Peaks in Dighton
Hunters Hill187 ft elevation
Directions
Richmond Hill184 ft elevation
Directions
Trails & water

5 lakes & rivers

Lakes & rivers tap for directions
Muddy Cove PondSegreganset RiverTaunton RiverThree Mile RiverThreemile River
Biking & sports

0.0 miles of bike routes

Bike lanes are often missing from the map in smaller towns, so that number is likely low.

Courts & fields
8Baseball
3Tracks
2Soccer
2Softball
1Tennis
1Lacrosse
1Football

Includes school and college facilities, which aren’t always open to the public.

History along the way

3 places on the National Register

The country’s official list of places worth saving (National Park Service).

History →
Samuel Farquhar HouseBuilding · listed 1986
About it
Dighton Wharves Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1997
About it
Coram Shipyard Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 1998
About it
When to get out

The best walking months in Dighton: May to September

NOAA’s 1991–2020 normals for the town and the daylight at its latitude. Outlined months have long days, highs of 59 to 86 °F and little rain for the place.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)9.510.511.813.314.515.214.913.812.411.09.89.1
High (°F)384047596978838275635343
Rain (in)4.13.65.14.63.64.03.33.74.14.74.44.9

July is the driest month (3.3 in) and the warmest (highs of 83 °F). 5.1 inches fall in March, the wettest month. The climate in Dighton →

Next door

Dighton and its neighbors

Tap a town to see its outdoors.

Taunton72 miSwansea21 miDighton6.5 miSomerset1.2 miBerkley1.0 mi
TownConserved
of land		Trail mi
per sq mi		Park acres
per 1,000		Near a park
½ mile		Outdoors
Dighton7%0.35477%B+
Berkley8%0.13650%B−
Taunton15%1.55971%A
Somerset7%0.21789%B+
Swansea10%0.93667%A−

The four inputs of the Outdoors grade, from the engine; shares are of land, not water.

Questions about parks and trails in Dighton

How much of Dighton is conserved land?

7% of its land, against a typical 21% for a Massachusetts town and 4% nationally (PAD-US). Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors: easements are usually private land.

Are dogs allowed on Dighton’s trails?

Town Forest and Broad Cove Marsh don’t have dog rules recorded on the map; check the signs at the trailhead.

Is there public land near Dighton?

36,218 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Dighton or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 442 of them inside the town line.

How much outdoors does Dighton have?

Ahead of 74% of U.S. towns on the Outdoors grade, #274 of 283 in Massachusetts. The grade combines the share of land that is conserved, miles of mapped trail per square mile of land, park acres per 1,000 residents and the share of residents within a half mile of a park. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.

Trail talk

Conditions, parking and favorite walks from Dighton neighbors.

Town Square →
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Sources

Where this page comes from

Conserved and public land: USGS Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US), service updated July 2026. Parks, trails, playgrounds, beaches and other places: OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL), map data as of 2026-10-28. Land and water area: Census 2025 Gazetteer. Residents near a park: 2020 Census blocks. National Register: National Park Service. How TownRatings grades the outdoors →