Outdoors · Clifton

Clifton, NJ parks, trails & bike paths

About 3.3% of Clifton is conserved land, roughly 243 acres. There are about 6.9 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Weasel Brook Park (2.5 mi), Main Memorial Park (0.8 mi), and Anzaldi Park (0.8 mi).

Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Clifton, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.

At a glance

Clifton outdoors

Conserved land

3.3%

243 of 7,272 acres

Trails

6.9 mi

0.6 mi per sq mi · 4 on conserved land

Parks & preserves

3 conserved acres per 1,000 residents

Bike routes

6.2 mi

3.2 mi lanes · 0.2 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.

No trailhead mapped yet

All 37 parks & preserves

Knollcroft Park11 ac · 0.2 mi trail
Holster Park9 ac · 0.1 mi trail
Dundee Island Park8 ac · 0.1 mi trail
Randolph Park1 ac · 0.1 mi trail
Main Ave Park1 ac · 0.1 mi trail · Directions
Rifle Camp Park47 ac · Directions
Garret Mountain Reservation19 ac
Nash Park13 ac · Directions
Clifton City Hall Park12 ac · Directions
Albion Memorial Park11 ac
Ravine Park8 ac
Mount Prospect Park8 ac
Latteri Park7 ac
Jubilee Park6 ac
Sperling Park6 ac
Tatarenko Park6 ac
Oak Ridge Park5 ac · Directions
Richardson Scale Park5 ac
Morris Canal Park & Jack W. Kuepfer, Sr. Nature Preserve4 ac
Dunney Park4 ac
Surgent Park4 ac · Directions
Richardson Oval Park4 ac
Chelsea Memorial Park3 ac
Lakeview Park3 ac
Zelenka Park3 ac
Acquackanonk Gardens Park3 ac
Washington Park3 ac · Directions
Lowry Park3 ac
Gregory Manor Park2 ac
Allwood Park2 ac
Hillside Park1 ac
Urma Park1 ac
Delawanna Memorial Park1 ac

Who protects the land

243 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.

Town or city

233 ac

County

22 ac

Not recorded

29 ac

Biking & sports

Bike routes, courts & fields

Painted or protected bike lanes3.2 mi
Off-road bike paths0.2 mi
Shoulders & shared lanes2.9 mi

Courts & fields

Baseball24
Tennis19
Basketball10
Soccer5
Skate park3
Softball2
Lacrosse1

Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.

Next door

Clifton and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.

Town	Conserved	Trails	Parks & preserves
Clifton	3.3%	6.9 mi	37
Woodland Park	10.9%	10.5 mi	8
Garfield	5%	2.2 mi	3
Passaic	0.8%	0.4 mi	5
Little Falls	2.3%	2.7 mi	7
Montclair	7.2%	8.3 mi	20
Paterson	5.2%	4.6 mi	15

Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Clifton'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.

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