Outdoors · Matawan

Matawan, NJ parks, trails & bike paths

About 8.7% of Matawan is conserved land, roughly 134 acres. There are about 1.1 miles of mapped trails.

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

At a glance

Matawan outdoors

Conserved land
8.7%
134 of 1,532 acres
Trails
1.1 mi
0.5 mi per sq mi
Parks & preserves
6
14 conserved acres per 1,000 residents
Bike routes
1.2 mi
0.0 mi lanes · 1.2 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

Gravelly Brook Park

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

Terhune Park

Park
2 acres
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
3

Memorial Park

Park
1 acres0.1 mi of trail
Dog rules not recorded
DirectionsTo the parking lot
4

Freneau Park

Park
1 acres
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet
Who protects the land

134 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
Town or city
130 ac
County
10 ac
Not recorded
26 ac
Biking & sports

Bike routes, courts & fields

  • Painted or protected bike lanes0.0 mi
  • Off-road bike paths1.2 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes0.0 mi

Courts & fields

  • Baseball5
  • Tennis4
  • Basketball3

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

Nearby

Matawan and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Matawan8.7%1.1 mi6
Aberdeen10.5%4.3 mi12
Marlboro13.9%8.8 mi5
Old Bridge21.1%33.8 mi9
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Matawan'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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