Fairfield County Hunt Club
Park
39 acres
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
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Outdoors in Staples
Parks, trails & the outdoors in Staples
About 1.6% of Staples is conserved land, roughly 44 acres. Staples has 5 named parks and preserves on the map.
Conserved land
1.6%
44 of 2,771 acres
Trails
0.1 mi
0 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
5
6 conserved acres per 1,000 people
Bike routes
3.6 mi
Highest peak
184 ft
Prospect Hill
The map
Conserved land, trails & bike routes
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Easements protect land from building but are usually private.© OpenStreetMap contributors · USGS PAD-US
Places to walk
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Town Farm Ball Complex
Park
11 acres
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Peter's Gate Reserve
Nature preserve
3 acres
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
All 5 parks & preserves
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Town Farm Ball Complex11 acres
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Peter's Gate Reserve3 acres
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Sasco River-Kirik Open Space1 acres
Things to do
4 places to go in Staples
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Who protects it
44 conserved acres
Who manages Staples’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Town or city16 ac
Not recorded28 ac
Local Other or Unknown · 25 acPrivate Conservation · 11 acLocal Park · 5 acWatershed Protection Area · 3 ac
Good to know
Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors. Public access isn’t recorded for 10 of 12 parcels. The walks above are places people visit.
The biggest protected places
| Place | Managed by | Acres | Public access |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown Private Conservation | Not recorded | 24 | Unknown |
| Town Farm Property Local Other or Unknown | Town or city | 11 | Open |
| Burr Farms Local Park | Town or city | 5 | Open |
| Cross Highway (wakeman Farm) Local Other or Unknown | Not recorded | 3 | Unknown |
| Sasco River--kirik Local Other or Unknown | Not recorded | 1 | Unknown |
Biking & sports
3.6 miles of bike routes
Bike lanes are often missing from the map in smaller towns, so that number is likely low.
0.0 mi
painted or protected bike lanes
0.0 mi
off-road bike paths
3.6 mi
shoulders & shared lanes
Courts & fields
19Tennis
12Equestrian
5Baseball
4Soccer
1Basketball
1Softball
1Football
Includes school and college facilities, which aren’t always open to the public.
History along the way
History →1 historic site to visit
Next door
Staples and its neighbors
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Fairfield48 miWestport13 miGreens Farms6.6 miWestport Village2.1 miColeytown1.7 miCompo1.4 miStaples0.1 miSouthport0.1 mi
| Town | Conserved | Parks |
|---|---|---|
| Staples | 1.6% | 5 |
| Westport | 4.3% | 31 |
| Fairfield | 4.2% | 77 |
| Coleytown | 2.7% | 2 |
| Westport Village | 7.1% | 7 |
| Greens Farms | 15.1% | 5 |
| Compo | 3.5% | 2 |
| Southport | 5.2% | 6 |
Trail talk
Conditions, parking and favorite walks from Staples neighbors.
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Trails, parks, preserves, courts and bike lanes © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), map data as of 2026-09-28. Conserved land: USGS Gap Analysis Project, 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.