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Brendan T. Byrne State Forest
Managed by New Jersey Division of Parks and Forestry
10,881 acres74.6 mi of trail
Role Bridge Bridge
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
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Outdoors · Manchester
Manchester, NJ parks, trails & bike paths
About 36% of Manchester is conserved land, roughly 18,689 acres. There are about 166 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Brendan T. Byrne State Forest (74.6 mi) and Greenwood Forest WMA (27.2 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Manchester, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Manchester outdoors
Conserved land
36%
18,689 of 52,522 acres
Trails
166 mi
2 mi per sq mi · 96 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
5
407 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
29.4 mi
0.2 mi lanes · 1.7 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
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.
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Greenwood Forest Wildlife Management Area
Managed by New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife
4,274 acres27.2 mi of trail
Cedar Creek TrailSnuffy's Turnpike
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
3
Pine Lake Park
Park
5 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4
6th Ave Playground
Park
3 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Who protects the land
18,689 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 52 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. Public access isn't recorded for 5 of 85 parcels. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes0.2 mi
- Off-road bike paths1.7 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes27.5 mi
Courts & fields
- Tennis32
- Basketball15
- Baseball15
- Soccer8
- Pickleball6
- Football4
- Beach volleyball3
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Nearby
Manchester and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
| Town | Conserved | Trails | Parks & preserves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manchester | 35.6% | 166.1 mi | 5 |
| Toms River | 6.6% | 31.7 mi | 14 |
| Lacey | 53.2% | 192.5 mi | 10 |
| Jackson | 16.9% | 107.4 mi | 1 |
| Plumsted | 19.8% | 14.7 mi | 2 |
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Manchester'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 44.8-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.