1
Utley Hill Preserve
Managed by Joshua's Trust
201 acres3.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · Columbia
Columbia, CT parks, trails & bike paths
About 9.9% of Columbia is conserved land, roughly 1,392 acres. There are about 21 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Utley Hill Preserve (3.4 mi), Mono Pond State Park Reserve (2.3 mi), and Columbia Recreation Park (1.4 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Columbia, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Columbia outdoors
Conserved land
9.9%
1,392 of 13,988 acres
Trails
21 mi
1 mi per sq mi · 8 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
10
263 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
2.2 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 2.2 mi off-road paths
Conserved land is a share of the whole town area. Bike lanes are often missing from the map in smaller towns, so that number is likely low.
Map
Conserved land, trails & bike routes
Tap a number or a place below to zoom in© OpenStreetMap contributors · USGS PAD-US
Places to walk
Parks & preserves with trails
Ranked by mapped trail miles. Directions go to the nearest marked trailhead or public parking.
2
Mono Pond State Park Reserve
Nature preserve
281 acres2.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3
Columbia Recreation Park
Park
62 acres1.4 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4
Willimantic River Water Access
Managed by State of Connecticut
53 acres0.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
All 10 parks & preserves
- Potter Meadow29 ac · Directions
- Hop River State Park Trail16 ac · Directions
- Airline State Park Trail (Southern Section)8 ac
- Goldberg Parcel4 ac
- US-6 Corridor2 ac
- Columbia Volunteer Fire Department Field2 ac
Who protects the land
1,392 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 181 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 41 of 46 parcels. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes0.0 mi
- Off-road bike paths2.2 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Courts & fields
- Baseball3
- Soccer2
- Equestrian1
- Softball1
- Tennis1
- Pickleball1
- Basketball1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Columbia and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Columbia's trails yet. Muddy, icy, a bridge out, where to park: a quick post helps the next person.
Sources: trails, parks, preserves, courts and bike lanes © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), map data as of 2026-09-28. Conserved land: USGS Gap Analysis Project, Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US). Measured against the Census town boundary.
How we measure
"Trails" are OpenStreetMap paths, bridleways, public tracks and unpaved footways, plus footways inside a park or preserve or on a named trail route. Sidewalks are left out. Areas are counted on a 20.2-meter grid, so overlapping parcels count once. "Conserved" includes conservation easements, which protect land from development but are usually private property. Trailheads are the nearest marked trailhead, public parking lot or information board within about 150 meters of a preserve. Dog rules come from OpenStreetMap when someone has tagged them; otherwise we show what's typical for the land manager, or say the rules aren't recorded.