1
South Mountain Reservation
Nature preserve
479 acres13.3 mi of trail
Turtle Back (Orange)Lenape Trail (Yellow)Crest TrailHillspur TrailOpenwood Trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
Outdoors · Maplewood
Maplewood, NJ parks, trails & bike paths
About 22% of Maplewood is conserved land, roughly 541 acres. There are about 17 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in South Mountain Reservation (13.3 mi) and Memorial Park (0.8 mi).
Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Maplewood, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
At a glance
Maplewood outdoors
Conserved land
22%
541 of 2,466 acres
Trails
17 mi
4.4 mi per sq mi · 14 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
4
21 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
3.1 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
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.
2
Memorial Park
Park
22 acres0.8 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3
Dehart Park
Park
7 acres0.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
4
Boyden Park
Park
3 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Who protects the land
541 conserved acres
Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Biking & sports
Bike routes, courts & fields
- Painted or protected bike lanes0.0 mi
- Off-road bike paths0.0 mi
- Shoulders & shared lanes3.1 mi
Courts & fields
- Tennis14
- Baseball9
- Soccer5
- Basketball2
- Pickleball2
- Lacrosse1
- Skate park1
Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.
Nearby
Maplewood and its neighbors
Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
| Town | Conserved | Trails | Parks & preserves |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maplewood | 21.9% | 17.1 mi | 4 |
| Irvington | 3.1% | 1.9 mi | 2 |
| Newark | 4% | 22.9 mi | 30 |
| South Orange Village | 5.2% | 1.0 mi | 5 |
| Millburn | 27.6% | 33.6 mi | 3 |
| Union | 10.3% | 3.5 mi | 13 |
Trail talk
Conditions & tips from neighbors
No recent posts about Maplewood'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.