Great Swamp Wilderness
Managed by United States Fish and Wildlife Service
743 acres1.1 mi of trail
Orange TrailSilver Trail
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
Directionsto the parking lot
Outdoors in Gillette
54% of Gillette is wild, conserved land
There are about 2.5 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Great Swamp Wilderness (1.1 mi), Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge (0.6 mi), and Matthew G. Kantor Memorial Park (0.5 mi).
Conserved land
54%
1,534 of 2,842 acres
Trails
2.5 mi
0.6 mi per sq mi · 2 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
3
541 conserved acres per 1,000 people
Bike routes
0.0 mi
Lakes & rivers
1
What kind of outdoors town is Gillette?
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★ What stands out · 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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The longest trail network is Great Swamp Wilderness, with 1.1 miles. Directions go to the nearest trailhead or public parking.
Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge
Nature preserve
1,079 acres0.6 mi of trail
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
Directionsto the parking lotWebsite ↗
Matthew G. Kantor Memorial Park
Park
10 acres0.5 mi of trail
🐕 Dog rules not recorded
Directionsto the parking lot
Things to do
4 places to go in Gillette
Beaches, playgrounds, peaks, falls and more. Pick a kind.
Playgrounds in Gillette
Trails & water
2 named trails and 1 lakes & rivers
Named trails
Open to bikes · 0.5 miUnpaved · 1.6 mi
Orange Trail0.7 mi
Silver Trail0.4 mi
Lakes & rivers tap for directions
Who protects it
1,534 conserved acres
Who manages Gillette’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service2,218 ac
County221 ac
Town or city196 ac
Other or Unknown Local Government51 ac
Land trusts & nonprofits6 ac
Not recorded211 ac
National Wildlife Refuge · 2,218 acLocal Conservation Area · 311 acLocal Other or Unknown · 205 acAgricultural Easement · 104 acLocal Park · 37 ac
Good to know
Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors. 54 acres are conservation easements, usually private land. Public access isn’t recorded for 2 of 23 parcels. The walks above are places people visit.
The biggest protected places
| Place | Managed by | Acres | Public access |
|---|---|---|---|
| Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge National Wildlife Refuge | U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service | 2,218 | Restricted |
| Passaic River County Park Local Conservation Area | Not recorded | 336 | Open |
| Long Hill Township Unknown Local Other or Unknown | Town or city | 154 | Open |
| unknown Private Conservation | Not recorded | 26 | Open |
| Riverside Park Local Other or Unknown | Town or city | 23 | Open |
| Long Hill Township Park Local Park | Town or city | 17 | Open |
| Long Hill Public Space Connection Unknown | Not recorded | 17 | Unknown |
| Passaic River Coalition Unknown Private Other or Unknown | Land trusts & nonprofits | 6 | Open |
| Meyersville Field Local Other or Unknown | Town or city | 2 | Open |
| Passaic River Basin Local Other or Unknown | Town or city | 1 | Open |
Biking & sports
0.0 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
0.0 mi
shoulders & shared lanes
Courts & fields
12Tennis
3Soccer
2Baseball
1Basketball
Includes school and college facilities, which aren’t always open to the public.
History along the way
History →2 old cemeteries
Next door
Gillette and its neighbors
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| Town | Conserved | Parks |
|---|---|---|
| Gillette | 54% | 3 |
| Long Hill | 51% | 4 |
| Berkeley Heights | 14.5% | 5 |
| Warren | 8.9% | 3 |
| Stirling | 30.4% | 1 |
| Chatham | 43% | 6 |
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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.