BOSTON  Clearing the streets, it turns out, is the easy part.

As storm after storm dumps more snow on New England this winter, finding somewhere to put it is proving a bigger challenge for many of the region’s densely packed cities.

“We’re shoehorning the stuff anywhere we can put it,” said John Isensee, the public works director in Lawrence, a seven-square-mile city that added eight inches to its snow piles Thursday. “The snowbanks are so high you can’t even find the fire hydrants.”

In Boston, where more than 60 inches have fallen since Christmas, plows are depositing excess at six “snow farms”  otherwise known as vacant lots  around the city. The term might sound quaint, but a snow farm in South Boston featured mountains of dirty, icy snow on Thursday, hardly the stuff of Currier & Ives.

Joanne Massaro, the city’s public works commissioner, said that budget constraints required that most snow stay on the streets, pushed as far out of the paths of drivers as possible. Snow gets hauled to the farms in dump trucks only if it is blocking emergency vehicles or pedestrian crossings, Ms. Massaro said.