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Conservation Property
There are a number of conservation properties in the Town of Hingham. Some of the more popular properties are listed below. When a property is not managed by the Conservation Commission, the property manager is listed in parentheses after the property name.
View the Rules and Regulations for use of Conservation Commission property.
Planning documents related to the Town's conservation properties are available at the bottom of this page.
View the Rules and Regulations for use of Conservation Commission property.
Planning documents related to the Town's conservation properties are available at the bottom of this page.
| Property Name |
Acreage |
Use |
|---|---|---|
| Boulevard Border Park |
11.00 | Serves as a buffer for heavily traveled Summer Street/George Washington Boulevard |
| Bouve Conservation Area | 32.00 | Provides access to Hewitt's Cove |
| Bradley Pond |
2.40 | Ice skating |
| Broad Cove |
15.00 | Bird watching |
| Bucken Property |
1.38 | Adds to natural buffer watershed protection; no formal activities on this land |
| Bucket Mill Pond* |
1.00 | Pond life study; bird watching |
| Burns Memorial Park |
24.10 | Bird watching; nature photography; walking |
| Button Island (Harbormaster)* |
0.60 | Nature observation; picnicking |
| Chief Justice Cushing Boulevard Border Park |
3.50 | Open area; buffer from heavily traveled road |
| Cranberry Pond |
13.80 |
Fishing; birding; ice skating |
| Crooked Meadow River Conservation Land |
6.00 | Passive exploration of a natural area |
| David Property |
4.90 | Shrub swamp |
| Eel River Woods (HLCT)* |
7.20 | Nature observation |
| Fee Pond* |
2.50 | Ice skating |
| Foundry Pond |
32.00 | Fishing; bird watching |
| Governor Long Bird Sanctuary/Tree Nursery |
11.10 | Wildlife sanctuary |
| Hayden Property |
2.80 | Walking; bird watching |
| Home Meadows |
70.00 | Bird watching; nature photography; canoeing/kayaking during flood tides |
| Langley, Ragged, Sarah and Bumpkin Islands (Harbormaster/NPS)* |
12.10 | Nature observation; picnicking by boat |
| Leavitt Street Conservation Land |
16.30 | Nature study; hiking; horseback riding |
| Lyfords Lyking |
6.63 | Birding |
| Marchesiani Parkland |
25.00 | Nature study; equestrian trails |
| McKenna Marsh |
100.00 | Wildlife observation; hiking |
| Merrymount Road Conservation Land* |
13.40 | Nature study |
| Mildred Cushing Woods* |
19.00 | Fishing; berry picking; canoeing; row boating; bird watching |
| More Brewer Park |
186.50 |
Walking; horseback riding; cross-country skiing; ice skating |
| Plymouth River Conservation Land* |
93.00 | Wildlife habitat; strictly passive use |
| South School Parcel* |
8.00 | Nature observation |
| Swanson Hollow* |
5.00 | Nature observation |
| Triphammer Pond |
97.80 | Hiking; fishing; picnicking; bird watching; ice skating |
| Turkey Hill (TTOR) |
55.00 (30 Hingham and 25 Cohasset) |
Scenic resource |
| Wadleigh's Rill |
0.75 | Nature study |
| Whortleberry Hollow (HLCT) |
3.00 | Hingham Land Trust Conservation Property |