Things to do in Wilmington

Silver Lake Town Beach

Cool off on the sandy shores of Silver Lake, where lifeguards watch calm freshwater, anglers cast from the pier, and a perimeter path reveals herons and painted turtles. The gentle shelf and roped-off swim area make it ideal for families seeking an old-fashioned New England lake day.

Silver Lake Town Beach

Phone: 978-658-4270

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Wilmington Town Common

Laid out in 1733, this tree-lined green remains the town’s civic heart, framed by a handsome Federal-era meetinghouse. Jog the crushed-stone loop, picnic beneath 200-year-old oaks, or catch a summer band concert at the gazebo.

Wilmington Town Common

Phone: 978-658-4270

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Yentile Farm Recreational Facility

Once a dairy, Yentile Farm now bursts with life: a universal-design playground, splash pad, lighted basketball courts, and walking loops bordered by pollinator gardens. Shaded pavilions and charging stations make it a four-season social hub.

Yentile Farm Playground

Phone: 978-658-4270

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Wilmington Town Museum at Harnden Tavern

Step inside an impeccably preserved 1770 Georgian farmhouse to explore artifacts, photos, and masonry that trace Wilmington’s journey from agrarian outpost to high-tech suburb. Guided tours reveal period furnishings and Revolutionary-era secrets.

Harnden Tavern

Phone: 978-658-5475

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K1 Speed Boston

Strap into electric karts that hit 45 mph on a pro-designed indoor track. Live lap-timing, podium ceremonies, and private meeting suites turn casual arrive-and-drive sessions into full-tilt corporate adrenaline events.

Go-kart racing

Phone: 978-253-4740

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Ristuccia Memorial Arena

Long the Boston Bruins’ practice rink, Ristuccia still hosts elite women’s hockey, public skates, and skating clinics. Contractors studying envelope retrofits can admire its recent insulation upgrades between slapshots.

Ice rink

Phone: 978-657-4605

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Aleppo Shriners Auditorium

Whether motocross, home shows, or comic-cons, this 5,000-seat hall flexes for any expo. Wide bays, permanent rigging points, and ample backstage space make it a model mid-size venue—plus proceeds aid Shriners Hospitals for Children.

Expo hall

Phone: 978-657-4202

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Wilmington Town Forest

This 154-acre Civilian Conservation Corps gem features 2.7 mi of multi-use trails, rustic stone bridges, and the town’s highest lookout with skyline views. Bikers, birders, and XC-skiers each claim their season.

Pine forest trail

Phone: 978-658-8238

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Rotary Park

Converted from a cranberry bog in the 1950s, Rotary Park pairs ballfields and modern playgrounds with a serene pond loop perfect for lunch-break strolls and shoreline-stabilization case studies.

Tree-ringed pond

Phone: 978-658-4270

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Wilmington Dog Park

Let Fido run free at this double-gated, mulch-surfaced dog run featuring agility hoops and separate spaces for large and small pups. Scout-built shade shelters and benches keep humans comfy too.

Dogs playing

Phone: 978-658-4270

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Butters Row Bridge & Shawsheen River Walk

Watch MassDOT’s timber-to-steel bridge replacement in real time, then follow the Shawsheen River trail for kingfisher sightings and railroad-era stonework glimpses.

Wooden bridge over river

Phone: 978-658-4481

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Bicknell Town Forest

Spread across 270 acres of mixed hardwoods, Bicknell Forest offers quiet trails for snowshoeing, birding, and nature photography just east of Wilmington center.

Forest path

Phone: 978-658-8238

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Mill Brook Wetlands Trail

A 1.7-mile boardwalk loop circles cattail marshes alive with red-winged blackbirds and chorus frogs. Interpretive signs explain storm-water filtration and habitat restoration efforts.

Wetland boardwalk

Phone: 978-658-8238

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Maple Meadow Brook Conservation Area

Explore beaver ponds and cranberry bog remnants on a gentle loop through open meadow and white-pine thickets—a prime spot for sunset photography and monarch butterflies.

Sunlit meadow

Phone: 978-658-8238

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Glen Road Berry Bog Trail

This short spur behind Town Hall traverses a historic cranberry bog, now a wildlife-rich marsh ringed by red maples and lowbush blueberries. Deer and great blue herons are frequent visitors.

Autumn bog

Phone: 978-658-8238

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Hathaway Acres Trail

A shady neighborhood loop showcasing glacial erratics and vernal pools, perfect for quick lunchtime walks or teaching kids to identify salamander egg masses in spring.

Boardwalk through woods

Phone: 978-658-8238

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Brookfield Estates Conservation Area

This pocket preserve protects a kettle-hole swamp edged by hemlocks and wintergreen. A short spur links to a network of neighborhood paths for stroller-friendly rambles.

Shaded woodland

Phone: 978-658-8238

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Blanchard Road Conservation Trail

A gently rolling path skirts abandoned pasture walls before climbing to a rocky knoll with winter views toward Boston. Interpretive markers highlight stone-wall construction methods.

Forest trail

Phone: 978-658-8238

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St. Thomas of Villanova Church

This 1883 Romanesque-revival parish anchors Wilmington Center with intricate brick corbelling and stained glass imported from Munich. Visitors are welcome to admire the quiet sanctuary and noon-hour carillon.

Brick church

Phone: 978-658-4665

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Wilmington Memorial Library

Beyond books, the award-winning library hosts makerspace demos, genealogy labs, and rooftop solar tours. Architects can study its daylight-harvesting clerestories while enjoying local-roast coffee in the café corner.

Contemporary library interior

Phone: 978-658-2967

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Wilmington Centre Village Historic District

Stroll Church and Middlesex Streets to survey Greek Revival, Queen Anne, and Federal facades framing the 1890s common. Interpretive plaques recount bakery-era industry and trolley-line dreams.

Historic village street

Phone: 978-658-3311

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Old Burial Ground

Carved slate stones dating to 1733 mingle with weathered brownstone markers in this quiet acre behind the Congregational Church—an open-air lesson in early-American funerary art.

Colonial cemetery

Phone: 978-658-3311

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Jaquith Park & Playground

Recently revamped with accessible surfacing, Jaquith Park offers a towering slide complex, sensory panels, and shaded picnic grove—perfect for multigenerational meet-ups after youth soccer.

Colorful playground

Phone: 978-658-4270

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Wilmington Farmers Market

On summer Sundays the Town Common transforms into a tent village of heirloom tomatoes, maple kettle corn, and live bluegrass. Kids craft tents sit beside conservation demo booths.

Farmers market stall

Phone: 813-600-9100

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Buzzell Senior Center

From watercolor studios to tai chi and tax-prep clinics, the Buzzell Center hums with lifelong-learning energy. Architects can tour plans for Wilmington’s forthcoming net-zero senior facility.

Community center lobby

Phone: 978-657-7595

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Wamesit Lanes Family Entertainment Center

Just north in Tewksbury, Wamesit blends plush candlepin and ten-pin lanes with HD golf simulators, an arcade, and a soaring double-decker bar—ideal for rain-day family outings or team-building mixers.

Bowling alley

Phone: 978-349-0000

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BeanStalk Adventure Ropes Course

Suspended above Jordan’s Furniture in Reading, this indoor ropes course lets thrill-seekers scramble across islands, rope ladders, and zip lines while neon lights pulse to upbeat tunes.

Indoor ropes course

Phone: 781-942-9816

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MetroRock Climbing Center Everett

Thirty-thousand square feet of cliffs, caves, and top-out boulders challenge novice and pro climbers alike. Evening lead-climbing leagues pair perfectly with post-session brews next door.

Indoor climbing wall

Phone: 617-387-7625

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Lord Hobo Brewing Co. Taproom

Taste iconic IPAs fresh from the source in a soaring 40-draft taproom. Behind glass, automated canning lines clatter—a case study in modern light-industrial build-out.

Craft brewery taps

Phone: 781-281-0809

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Horn Pond Recreation Area

A 2.2-mile paved loop encircles this 116-acre kettle pond, offering fishing piers, pollinator gardens, and warbler-rich thickets. Evening paddles showcase spectacular city-skyline sunsets.

Lakeside trail

Phone: 781-897-5805

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Addison Gallery of American Art

Free to the public, this Phillips Academy treasure houses 23,000 works from Winslow Homer to contemporary installation. Rotating exhibits and a glass-walled study center reward repeat visits.

Art museum interior

Phone: 978-749-4015

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Harold Parker State Forest

Over 3,000 acres of glacial eskers, kettle lakes, and CCC ponds offer 35 miles of singletrack, premier bike-packing sites, and a lakeside campground within 20 minutes of Wilmington.

Forest lake at dusk

Phone: 978-686-3391

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Breakheart Reservation

Twin hilltops rise 200 ft above two kettle lakes in this 640-acre DCR reserve. Rugged summit loops, family-friendly paved paths, and ranger-led “Movies in the Parks” enliven all seasons.

Wooded lake overlook

Phone: 781-233-0834

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Shawsheen River Greenway Trail

Follow the river’s oxbows on a crushed-stone path linking canoe launches, pollinator meadows, and interpretive panels on textile-mill waterpower—excellent for flat 5K training runs.

Riverbank trail

Phone: 978-671-0921

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Middlesex Canal Museum & Visitors Center

In a restored 1865 mill, scale models, artifacts, and walking-tour maps tell the story of America’s first industrial canal linking Lowell to Boston—an engineering marvel predating railroads.

Historic canal lock

Phone: 978-670-2740

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Lowell National Historical Park

Ride a trolley, cruise 19th-century power canals, and watch 1920s looms thunder to life in brick mill buildings that birthed America’s Industrial Revolution.

Brick textile mill

Phone: 978-970-5000

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Minute Man National Historical Park – North Bridge

Stand where “the shot heard ’round the world” sparked revolution, then hike Battle Road Trail past restored taverns and stone walls under the watchful eyes of living-history rangers.

North Bridge Concord

Phone: 978-369-6993

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Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge

Twelve miles of freshwater marsh along the Concord and Sudbury Rivers shelter 220+ bird species. An ADA boardwalk and observation tower give sunrise photographers unforgettable mist-blanketed vistas.

Marsh at sunrise

Phone: 978-443-4661

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Stevens-Coolidge House & Gardens

Formal French parterres, Asian teahouse garden, and rolling orchards surround this 91-acre Colonial-Revival estate. Seasonal BloomFests blanket the grounds in 30,000 tulips each April.

Formal garden

Phone: 978-689-9105

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Central Rock Gym Stoneham

Scale 45-ft lead walls, push limits on ever-changing bouldering problems, then unwind in the yoga studio. Corporate groups can book private coaching for next-level team building.

Rock gym climber

Phone: 781-438-2905

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