A 25-acre conservation area entered from Branch Street near the Ware Street corner, gifted to the Natural Resources Trust of Mansfield in 1997 and dedicated to Dorothy York in 2011. A short red loop and connecting orange trail cross a footbridge over a stream, passing a Native American sweat-house frame along the way.
What to expect
Trails
Red loop trail, roughly a third of a mile, wide and easy; an orange trail of similar length branches off mid-loop, crosses a footbridge, and continues into…
Dogs
Mansfield requires dogs to be on a leash or lead no more than six feet long and under the handler's control whenever off the owner's property, which applies on town parks and conservation land. That's the town-wide default; watch for…
Accessibility
All-terrain GRIT Freedom Chairs can be borrowed free from the Mansfield Public Library's Library of Things for this trail
Managed by
Natural Resources Trust of Mansfield (NRT)
508-261-7378 · WebsiteWorth knowing
- The property was a gift from Dorothy and Stanley York, the same family that sold the adjoining 47-acre Marie Strese Conservation Area to the town in 1974. It's genuinely unclear from published sources whether this parcel is what the listed dataset separately calls 'Branch Street Conservation Area,' or a distinct, unnamed-in-that-dataset parcel next to it.
Common questions
Can I bring my dog to Dorothy L. York Conservation Area?
Mansfield requires dogs to be on a leash or lead no more than six feet long and under the handler's control whenever off the owner's property, which applies on town parks and conservation land. That's the town-wide default; watch for posted signs here.
Is Dorothy L. York Conservation Area wheelchair accessible?
All-terrain GRIT Freedom Chairs can be borrowed free from the Mansfield Public Library's Library of Things for this trail