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Cowles Park
Nature preserve
132 acres7.3 mi of trail
Inside JobExhibition/TwistyTJ's Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · East Granby
East Granby, CT parks, trails & bike paths
About 21% of East Granby is conserved land, roughly 2,391 acres. There are about 39 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Cowles Park (7.3 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in East Granby, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
East Granby outdoors
Conserved land
21%
2,391 of 11,227 acres
Trails
39 mi
2.2 mi per sq mi · 18 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
4
456 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
5.2 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 5.2 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
Ian Clark Preserve
Managed by East Granby Land Trust
14 acres0.4 mi of trail
Story Trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
3
Granbrook Park
Managed by Town of East Granby
43 acres0.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4
Tom and Ginnie Howard Educational Preserve
Managed by Traprock Ridge Land Conservancy
15 acres0.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Who protects the land
2,391 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 562 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 43 of 52 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 paths5.2 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi
Courts & fields
- Baseball6
- Tennis5
- Soccer4
- Basketball3
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
East Granby and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
| Town | Conserved | Trails | Parks & preserves |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Granby | 21.3% | 38.5 mi | 4 |
| Simsbury | 29% | 103.1 mi | 46 |
| Bloomfield | 13.4% | 65.7 mi | 27 |
| Suffield | 13.5% | 37.3 mi | 26 |
| Granby | 29.3% | 68.1 mi | 34 |
| Windsor Locks | 6.8% | 6.3 mi | 13 |
| Windsor | 10.9% | 41.3 mi | 45 |
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about East Granby'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-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.