Outdoors · Frenchtown

Frenchtown, NJ parks, trails & bike paths

About 24% of Frenchtown is conserved land, roughly 187 acres. There are about 8.2 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Frenchtown Preserve (7.1 mi).

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

At a glance

Frenchtown outdoors

Conserved land
24%
187 of 782 acres
Trails
8.2 mi
6.8 mi per sq mi · 8 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
3
107 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
2.0 mi
0.6 mi lanes · 1.4 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

123
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

Frenchtown Preserve

Nature preserve
147 acres7.1 mi of trail
Green TrailRed TrailOrange TrailBlue TrailYellow Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
2

Delaware and Raritan Canal State Park

Managed by New Jersey Division of Parks and Forestry
162 acres
Dogs on leashMapped in OpenStreetMap
DirectionsTo D&R Canal Trail Parking Website
3

Frenchtown Park

Park
3 acres0.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Who protects the land

187 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Land trusts & nonprofits
163 ac
State natural resources
148 ac
Town or city
25 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 2 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 1 of 8 parcels. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.

Biking & sports

Bike routes, courts & fields

  • Painted or protected bike lanes0.6 mi
  • Off-road bike paths1.4 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi

Courts & fields

  • Baseball2

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

Nearby

Frenchtown and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Frenchtown24%8.2 mi3
Tinicum35.4%14.0 mi6
Alexandria25.6%14.6 mi2
Kingwood23%18.1 mi7
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Frenchtown'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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