Outdoors · Lafayette

Lafayette, NJ parks, trails & bike paths

About 21% of Lafayette is conserved land, roughly 2,418 acres. There are about 7.5 miles of mapped trails.

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

At a glance

Lafayette outdoors

Conserved land
21%
2,418 of 11,440 acres
Trails
7.5 mi
0.4 mi per sq mi · 4 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
2
1,032 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
0.6 mi
0.1 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

Paulinskill River Wildlife Management Area

Managed by New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife
88 acres0.3 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
2

Congleton Preserve

Managed by New Jersey Natural Lands Trust
85 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Website
Who protects the land

2,418 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
County
1,775 ac
Other or Unknown Local Government
1,180 ac
Land trusts & nonprofits
390 ac
Town or city
367 ac
Other state land
181 ac
State fish & wildlife
174 ac
State natural resources
174 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 1,685 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 4 of 101 parcels. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.

Biking & sports

Bike routes, courts & fields

  • Painted or protected bike lanes0.1 mi
  • Off-road bike paths0.0 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.5 mi
  • Sussex Branch Trail (bike route)3.6 mi
  • Paulinskill Valley Trail (bike route)2.8 mi
  • 9/11 National Memorial Trail (New Jersey thru route) (bike route)1.5 mi
Next door

Lafayette and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Lafayette21.1%7.5 mi2
Hampton38.7%16.8 mi8
Hardyston44.4%23.7 mi3
Sparta18.9%27.1 mi7
Frankford27.1%17.6 mi5
Andover22.8%36.7 mi1
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Lafayette'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 20.4-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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