Outdoors · Emerson

Emerson, NJ parks, trails & bike paths

About 1.8% of Emerson is conserved land, roughly 28 acres. There are about 4.2 miles of mapped trails.

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

At a glance

Emerson outdoors

Conserved land
1.8%
28 of 1,541 acres
Trails
4.2 mi
1.8 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
3
4 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
0.0 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 0.0 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

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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.
1

Centennial Park

Park
1 acres0.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
2

Ackerman Park

Park
1 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3

Washington Park

Park
1 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Who protects the land

28 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Town or city
28 ac
Biking & sports

Bike routes, courts & fields

  • Painted or protected bike lanes0.0 mi
  • Off-road bike paths0.0 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi

Courts & fields

  • Baseball10
  • Tennis8
  • Basketball7
  • Soccer5
  • Pickleball4
  • Football1

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

Next door

Emerson and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Emerson1.8%4.2 mi3
Haworth7.9%10.9 mi1
Westwood9.5%2.5 mi5
Oradell8.4%2.7 mi3
Closter12.4%2.8 mi1
Harrington Park12.4%1.9 mi3
Paramus10.1%18.1 mi20
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Emerson'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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