Aaron Guild Park 🚶 🧺 × Aaron Guild Park Amenities: pedestrian paths, benches and landscaped pocket-park space for walking and sitting.
Balch School 🏀 ⚾ × Balch School Baseball, softball and basketball courts.
Bernie Cooper Park 🚶 🧺 ♿ × Bernie Cooper Park Town description: A riverfront conservation park developed on the former Saint Street Lot. The Town acquired the property for permanent open-space protection and designed it for passive recreation along the Neponset River.
Riverfront open space created for passive recreation, with walking paths and views along the Neponset River. The Town’s trail document center includes its brochure/map.
Bond Street Playground 🛝 × Bond Street Playground Amenities: tot lot/playground and neighborhood green space.
Brylinsky Memorial Park 🚶 🧺 × Brylinsky Memorial Park Amenities: benches, picnic table and small landscaped corner park for walking and picnicking.
Callahan School ⚾ × Callahan School Rectangular athletic field.
Cleveland School 🛝 ⚾ × Cleveland School Jean Brown Field plus a back field used for organized recreation.
Coakley Middle School 🚶 🎾 ⚾ ⚽ 🏈 🥏 × Coakley Middle School Football: Youth football practices and flag football; field use is scheduled around school and recreation programs.
Rectangular field, softball field, baseball field and tennis courts. Norwood Recreation also installed a public 9-hole disc golf course here in 2021; a 2022 Recreation guide described it as available outside conflicting athletic events. Because disc golf is not separately listed in the current 2026 MyRec facility directory, confirm current course availability with Recreation before making a special trip.
A walking and cross-country route runs around the Coakley athletic-field area, with connections toward the Hawes/Ryan Drive area. It is useful for walking and running when it does not conflict with school or athletic use.
The Town added a public 9-hole disc golf course at Coakley in 2021, and Recreation’s 2022 guide said it could be used whenever it did not conflict with athletic events. It is not separately shown in the current 2026 online facility directory, so call Norwood Recreation at 781-762-0466 if course status is important to your visit.
Disabled American Veterans Memorial Park 🚶 🧺 ♿ × Disabled American Veterans Memorial Park Amenities: walking paths, benches, groomed open space and picnicking/passive recreation.
Doherty Park / Doherty Field 🚶 🛝 ⚾ × Doherty Park / Doherty Field Amenities: playground and Little League baseball field. Organized field use should follow Norwood Recreation permitting and field-status rules.
Ellis Playground & Fields 🚶 🛝 ⚾ ⚽ × Ellis Playground & Fields Amenities: playground, baseball field, softball, soccer/rectangular fields and the short Ellis Playground trail.
Ellis Pond & Alevizos Park 🚶 🎣 🧺 × Ellis Pond & Alevizos Park Town description: Ellis Pond and Alevizos Park are Conservation Commission open-space properties. The area is managed for passive recreation, trails and wildlife; Alevizos Park also includes a butterfly garden and pavilion.
Ellis Pond supports fishing and boating, while adjacent Alevizos Park is a small passive-recreation area with benches. The trail brochure ties the pond and park together.
Endean Park & Hawes Brook 🚶 🎣 × Endean Park & Hawes Brook Town description: Endean Conservation Land and Hawes Brook form an extensive scenic trail area. Town planning materials describe the trails as scenic, recreational and wildlife-oriented; the Conservation Commission also maintains a community orchard at Endean.
A larger conservation area used for walking and passive recreation, with wooded trails around the Endean/Hawes Brook landscape.
Father Mac’s Recreation Area 🚶 🛝 🏊 ⚾ ⚽ 🧺 ♿ × Father Mac’s Recreation Area Town description: Town trail planning identifies the Father Mac area along Germany Brook as a scenic, recreational and wildlife corridor adjoining the active recreation facilities.
Amenities: swimming pool, playground, Little League baseball and soccer fields, plus nearby walking-trail connections.
Little League baseball and multiple soccer fields.
Germany Brook 🚶 × Germany Brook Town description: Germany Brook is part of Norwood’s trail and conservation network, with planned and existing connections through the Germany Brook corridor.
A wooded conservation-area walk following the Germany Brook landscape.
Hawes recreation area 🚶 🛝 🏊 🎣 🧺 ♿ × Hawes recreation area Amenities: pool, spray park, playground, fishing pond and nearby access toward Hawes Brook/Endean trails.
Hennessey Field & Murphy Park 🚶 ⚾ × Hennessey Field & Murphy Park Town description: The Trails Committee identifies the Hennessey Field/Murphy Park area as a small recreational and wildlife trail area connecting the two recreation properties.
A wooded walking area linking Hennessey Field and the Murphy Park/field neighborhood.
Ledgeview Drive 🚶 × Ledgeview Drive Town description: The Trails Committee identifies Ledgeview Drive as a recreational and wildlife route along the Neponset River, with an approximately two-mile route and limited parking.
A developing/preliminary trail area for which the Town currently publishes a preliminary map.
Meadow Street Conservation Land 🚶 × Meadow Street Conservation Land Town description: The Meadow Street conservation property lies along the Neponset River and is identified by the Trails Committee as a scenic, recreational and wildlife trail area.
A conservation property with a mapped walking route through undeveloped open space.
Morse Hill Veterans’ Memorial Park 🚶 🧺 ♿ × Morse Hill Veterans’ Memorial Park Amenities: accessible gazebo, walkways, benches, pollinator gardens, lighting and veterans memorial.
Murphy Field 🚶 🛝 ⚾ × Murphy Field Little League baseball field adjoining the playground and neighborhood trail connection.
Murphy Park & Playground 🚶 🛝 🏀 ⚾ × Murphy Park & Playground Amenities: playground, Little League baseball field, basketball court and a neighborhood walking connection toward Hennessey Field.
Norwood High School 🚶 🎾 🏈 × Norwood High School Tennis: Tennis courts are located at Norwood High School; school athletic schedules may affect access.
Football: High school football stadium/turf field; school athletic schedules govern access.
The indoor walking track above the NHS gym is available to Norwood residents. Start with the School Department’s official Walking Track Access page and its linked “Walking Track Documentation.” The established access process has included an application, CORI/background check and a photo-ID access pass; because procedures and hours can change with school and athletic schedules, use the current documentation before visiting. For questions or current access instructions, contact the Norwood Public Schools Facilities Office at 781-440-5830 .
Walking Track Access & documentation ↗
Oldham School ⚾ ⚽ × Oldham School Little League baseball and rectangular field.
Prescott School 🛝 🏀 ⚾ × Prescott School Amenities: playground, basketball court, Little League baseball field and softball field.
Little League baseball and softball fields.
Savage Center 🚶 🏀 🏓 × Savage Center The Savage Center at 275 Prospect St includes a walking path with outdoor exercise stations, outdoor basketball, and dedicated pickleball courts. The Town’s 2025 renovation reconfigured and resurfaced the courts and expanded the planned pickleball layout from three to four courts; Norwood Recreation’s 2026 programming uses the Savage Center Courts for pickleball instruction.
Shattuck Park 🚶 × Shattuck Park Town description: Shattuck Park is a small Town-owned park near Highland Cemetery identified by the Trails Committee for recreational and wildlife use.
A roughly seven-acre wooded Town park used primarily for walking and passive recreation.
Stearns Drive / Elliot Street Pocket Park 🧺 × Stearns Drive / Elliot Street Pocket Park Amenities: landscaped neighborhood open space and seating/rest area for pedestrians.
Town Common / Memorial Common 🚶 × Town Common / Memorial Common Amenities: central public green, walking/passive recreation space and areas used for concerts, community gatherings and civic events.
Vanderbilt / Pine Tree Forest 🚶 × Vanderbilt / Pine Tree Forest A trail network with several loop options; the Town publishes both an all-loops map and a mapped 5K route.
Washington Street Pocket Park by Town Hall 🧺 × Washington Street Pocket Park by Town Hall Amenities: landscaped seating area, ornamental cherry trees and pedestrian streetscape space.
Willett School 🚶 🛝 ⚾ × Willett School A mapped trail segment near the Willett School and adjoining parkland, part of the developing Tiot Trail network.
Babe Ruth baseball field adjoining the neighborhood playground.
Wilson Street Playground 🛝 ⚾ × Wilson Street Playground Amenities: playground and adjoining Babe Ruth baseball field.
Winslow Little League Field ⚾ × Winslow Little League Field Little League baseball field.
Winslow playground & field 🛝 ⚾ × Winslow playground & field Amenities: playground/open space and Little League baseball field.
