Outdoors · Hillside

Hillside, NJ parks, trails & bike paths

About 8.8% of Hillside is conserved land, roughly 155 acres. Hillside has 2 named parks and preserves on the map.

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

At a glance

Hillside outdoors

Conserved land
8.8%
155 of 1,771 acres
Trails
0.4 mi
0.1 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
2
7 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

12
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

Elizabeth River Park

Park
30 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
2

Lightning Brook Park

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

155 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
County
140 ac
Town or city
15 ac
Not recorded
1 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

  • Soccer2
  • Football1
  • Baseball1
  • Basketball1

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

Nearby

Hillside and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Hillside8.8%0.4 mi2
Union10.3%3.5 mi13
Elizabeth2.2%3.1 mi19
Newark4%22.9 mi30
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Hillside'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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