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Odiorne Point State Park
Park
320 acres4.7 mi of trail
Sagamore TrailSugar Maple TrailBattery Seaman TrailLittleton Road Nature TrailPanaview Path
Dog rules not recorded
Outdoors · Rye
Rye, NH parks, trails & bike paths
About 7.8% of Rye is conserved land, roughly 1,820 acres. There are about 14 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Odiorne Point State Park (4.7 mi), Rye Town Forest (1.1 mi), and Seavey Acres (0.6 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Rye, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Rye outdoors
Conserved land
7.8%
1,820 of 23,382 acres
Trails
14 mi
0.4 mi per sq mi · 8 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
10
324 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
7.3 mi
1.1 mi lanes · 0.9 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
Rye Town Forest
Managed by Town of Rye
223 acres1.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3
Seavey Acres
Managed by Town of Rye
58 acres0.6 mi of trail
Seavey Woods Trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
4
Rye Harbor State Park
Park
64 acres0.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
All 10 parks & preserves
- Gulf of Maine Cod Spawning Protection Area59 ac
- Jim Raynes Forest56 ac
- Charles E. Rand Memorial Forest25 ac · Directions
- Marden Woods25 ac · Directions
- Wallis Sands State Park23 ac · Directions
- Outer Marker Park1 ac
Who protects the land
1,820 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 465 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 56 of 68 parcels. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes1.1 mi
- Off-road bike paths0.9 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes5.3 mi
- East Coast Greenway (NH) (bike route)0.3 mi
- New Hampshire Seacoast Greenway (bike route)0.3 mi
Courts & fields
- Tennis17
- Baseball4
- Equestrian4
- Basketball2
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Next door
Rye and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
| Town | Conserved | Trails | Parks & preserves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rye | 7.8% | 14.0 mi | 10 |
| New Castle | 7.6% | 0.9 mi | 2 |
| North Hampton | 22.4% | 10.0 mi | 21 |
| Portsmouth | 12% | 20.7 mi | 23 |
| Kittery | 4.5% | 22.4 mi | 22 |
| Greenland | 17.7% | 5.9 mi | 11 |
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Rye'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 27.9-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.