Mansfield Township Recreation – Parks Inventory


Mansfield Community Park

40-acre facility located in the heart of Columbus off East Main Street. 20 acres have been developed into a very popular and highly utilized gathering place for all Mansfield residents. Regulation youth baseball and softball fields, a regulation Babe Ruth baseball field and outdoor batting cage. A paved 6/10 mile walk path, two regulation soccer fields, outdoor basketball and tennis courts, shuffle board and horse shoe pit, large children’s playground, and parking for about 100 vehicles. Plans are ongoing to construct a park support building with concession area, bathrooms, large public meeting room, and storage area to support township and recreation functions. The undeveloped 20 acres is contemplated to include an extension of the walking path with fitness course through a wooded area at the southeast corner of the property.

Town Hall Field

Located at the western end of Mansfield Community Park, features a regulation, fenced-in youth baseball field. A new feature at Town Hall Field completed in 2000 was the addition of a mural depicting an old-time baseball grandstand with spectators and sponsors supporting Mansfield Recreation.

Hedding Park

Located off Old York Road in the hamlet of Hedding, Mansfield Township. 10-12 acres that includes a youth baseball/softball field, two tennis courts, paved walk path, playground equipment, and large open space and picnic grove.

Columbus Civic Club

Deeded to Mansfield Township in 1997 by members of the Columbus Civic and Recreation Club, a 12 acre site at the end of New York Avenue off of Route 206. Includes one youth ball field, one soccer field, a pond that is part of Craft’s Creek, and a building that is currently used as storage for the Recreation program.

Veteran’s Park

Small Memorial Park located on East Main Street adjacent to the township municipal facilities in memory of local residents who gave their lives for their country.

Northern Burlington Regional School district and Mansfield Township School district

Outdoor and indoor facilities used in cooperation with the local Boards of Education for activities including basketball, baseball, softball, soccer, football and cheerleading practices and games.

Future Park and Recreation sites:


Georgetown Community Park

A seventeen-acre site located off Route 68 in the Mapleton development. Will include lighted baseball/softball and soccer field, outdoor basketball and tennis courts, an outdoor roller hockey rink, concession and bathroom facility, parking, and walk path to roads.

Country Walk Park

Will include walk path around aerated detention pond, ball field, tennis courts, and basketball court.

Calton Homes development

E-Town Properties

Partial Open Space Inventory

+/- 30 acres site at south end of Forest Edge development on Mansfield Road East. Site of future

Mansfield Elementary School.

+/- 11 acres on north end of Deer Path at Mansfield development, including ravine and stream corridor.

Significant acreage on west side of Route 206 on Water Company property that has been identified and agreed to be used as potential township recreation fields.


Preserved Farmland Inventory – Partial list


Bishop Farm

Van Mater Farm

Croshaw Nursery

Goodenough Farm